Wireworm in Quebec Field Crops: Specific Community Composition in North America
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wireworms are important economic pests that attack the seeds and roots of numerous vegetable and field crops worldwide. A 5-yr study was conducted in the main agricultural regions of the province of Quebec (Canada), to identify and characterize the wireworm communities (Coleoptera: Elateridae) that occur in fields planted with economically important crops (maize, soybean, cereals, canola, and grasslands). Bait traps were used to collect wireworms each spring from 2011 to 2015. More than 600 sites were sampled in total, involving ca. 14,000 traps. Wireworms were found in 69% of the sites and 73% of the traps. A total of 6,014 wireworms were collected and identified to genus, or to species when possible. The results show that nine genera occur in Quebec and that Hypnoidus abbreviatus (Say) is currently the most abundant species in arable land in Quebec, representing 72% of all collected wireworms. The other genera collected were Melanotus (8% of all wireworms collected), Ampedus (7%), Limonius (6%), and Agriotes (4%). Wireworms from the genera Aeolus, Dalopius, Hemicrepidius, and Oestodes constituted ca. 3% together. The predominance of H. abbreviatus appeared to be specific to Quebec compared with the other Canadian provinces and the rest of North America. We observed differences in the relative abundance of wireworm genera among the agricultural regions sampled. However, no effect of current and preceding crops was observed in this study. Our results suggest that integrated pest management strategies for managing wireworms in Quebec fields should take into consideration the species present in each agronomical region.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it