Caterpillar, salt marsh

The cotton leaf worm [Alabama argillacea (Hbn.)] and several other leaf-feeding lepidopterous larvae, particularly Anomis texana Riley and the salt-marsh caterpillar [Estigmene acrea (Drury)], sometimes cause total destruction of the cotton crop in localized areas. 

Little has been done to study phthalate ester metabolism in other individual species. Mosquito larvae and salt marsh caterpillar larvae, however, were each shown to transform dioctyl... 

Aquatic Ecosystem and Fish. Metcalf et al. (2) studied the fate of diflubenzuron (radiolabeled separately in three different positions) in their model ecosystem. Diflubenzuron was dubbed "moderately persistent" in algae, snails, salt marsh caterpillars, and mosquito larvae as evidenced by limited biodegradability (Table IV). However, diflubenzuron and its nonpolar metabolites were not prone to ecological magnification in Gambusia fish. The lack of bioaccumulation of diflubenzuron residues in fish was substantiated by Booth and Ferrell (14) who used the channel catfish, Ictalurus, in a simulated lake ecosystem. They treated separate soil samples at 0.007 and 0.55 ppm, respectively. 

CONCENTRATION OF CARBON-14 RESIDUES (CALCULATED A8 PARENT) IN WATER AT DIFFERENT DAYS FOLLOWING LARVAL FEEDING OF THE SORGHUM PLANTS BY SALT MARSH CATERPILLAR... 

Hydroxydanaidal has been extracted from coremata (Krasnoff and Roelofs, 1989). Like the cabbage looper moth, the salt marsh caterpillar moth has a dual signaling system, but in the case of E. acrea both males and females are attracted, leading to aggregations. 

Deoxyribose was used as precursor for both chiral segments of (5S)-5-hydroxy-l4,15-LTA (56), the biogenetic precursor of the lipoxins (sugar numbers indicated), and the carbons of D-xylose were incorporated as indicated into the salt marsh caterpillar moth... 

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