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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1966
Citation
Journal of Economic Entomology 59:3 (1966), pp. 550–552.
doi: 10.1093/jee/59.3.550
Abstract
The concentration of plant pigments in excreta vs. food provided a measure of digestibility of most plants by grasshoppers. Digestibility values obtained with the chromogen-ratio method and consumption-excretion ratios were highly correlated (r = 0.789**). Greatly disparate results were obtained in 4 cases. The chromogen method, when applicable, gave better duplicability and eliminated many of the errors and much labor associated with consumption-excretion ratios.
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Copyright © 1966 Entomological Society of America; published by Oxford University Press. Used by permission.