Developmental Biology of the Cabbage Seedpod Weevil, <I>Ceutorhynchus obstrictus</I> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in Spring Canola, <I>Brassica napus</I>, in Western Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Aspects of adult host plant preference and preimaginal development of the cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Marsham), were investigated in spring canola, Brassica napus L., in the Mixed Grassland Ecoregion of western Canada. In spring, overwintered adults initially occurred in high densities on volunteer canola and other brassicaceous weeds. In a mixed stand of Sinapis arvensis L., Thlaspi arvense L., and Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb, weevil numbers were significantly higher on S. arvensis than the other host plant species. Regardless of host plant species, adults were found more abundantly on inflorescences than on leaves or stems. Little adult migration to spring canola occurred when crops were in the seedling and rosette stages, but migration increased significantly to a maximum in the bud and flowering stages. Most oviposition occurred when plants were still flowering but pods on lower racemes were elongating. First instars were most abundant when seeds in lower pods were beginning to enlarge. The greatest abundance of second instars occurred when seeds within the lower siliques were fully enlarged. Third instars were most abundant when seeds in lower siliques were green. Development from egg to adult required 31–58 d in spring canola. Larvae occurred more abundantly on lower regions of racemes than on pods higher up. Although C. obstrictus is primarily a pest of autumn-seeded “winter” crops of B. napus in Europe and the northwestern United States, our study demonstrated that its preimaginal development occurred rapidly and successfully within the short-season “spring” crops of B. napus grown in western North America.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".