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Ocypus olens: A predator of brown garden snail

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T.W. Fisher, University of California
Ian Moore, University of California
E.F. Legner, University of California
R.E. Orth, University of California

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California Agriculture 30(3):20-21.

Published March 01, 1976

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Abstract

The large black rove-beetle Ocypus olens Msller (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (fig. 1) is established in some gardens in California. It was first introduced accidentally into California probably about fifty years ago and has since been reported in the counties of Contra Costa, Imperial, Los Angeles, Modoc, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco and San Mateo. This active predator is now being viewed as a possible biological control agent of Helix aspersa Muller, the brown garden snail (BGS).

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Max E. Badgley, U.C.R., provided photographs 1 and 3

Ocypus olens: A predator of brown garden snail

T.W. Fisher, Ian Moore, E.F. Legner, R.E. Orth
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Ocypus olens: A predator of brown garden snail

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Authors

T.W. Fisher, University of California
Ian Moore, University of California
E.F. Legner, University of California
R.E. Orth, University of California

Publication Information

California Agriculture 30(3):20-21.

Published March 01, 1976

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Author Affiliations show

Abstract

The large black rove-beetle Ocypus olens Msller (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (fig. 1) is established in some gardens in California. It was first introduced accidentally into California probably about fifty years ago and has since been reported in the counties of Contra Costa, Imperial, Los Angeles, Modoc, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco and San Mateo. This active predator is now being viewed as a possible biological control agent of Helix aspersa Muller, the brown garden snail (BGS).

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Author notes

Max E. Badgley, U.C.R., provided photographs 1 and 3


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