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This page contains 10-s recordings of sounds detected by an accelerometer in nursery containers (1-gallon or larger in size) infested with black vine weevil (BVW) larvae, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, recorded between Nov. 16, 1999 and Nov. 18, 1999, in a laboratory at the ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Corvallis OR, and in a greenhouse at Monrovia, Inc., Dayton, OR. The sounds represent a range of different signals typically found in recordings of infestations in pots containing different plants in different environments.

Host Plant in Container	Site	No. Larvae
1. Picea abies (L.) Karst 'Mariana Nana'  [blue spruce]	greenhouse	126
2. Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. [Virginia creeper]	greenhouse	24
3. Rhododendron L 'Sappho' [rhododendron]	lab	3
4. Picea glauca (Moench) Voss 'Albertina'  [Alberta spruce]	lab	7
5. Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' [Irish yew]	lab	19
6. Fragaria x ananassa Duch. 'Totem' [strawberry]	lab	2*

*These possibly were strawberry root weevil larvae, Otiorhynchus ovatus L., which are difficult to distinguish visually from BVW.

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10/31/05 Richard Mankin