| Availability | Consult A. H. Jay Burr. |
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| Strain Isolation | A. H. Jay Burr, May-June, various years Rosedale, BC, Canada. Back yard of Gwen Bollerup. Rural Fraser River Valley, near sea level. Soil in lawns, grassy field, flower garden, bare soil of a vegetable garden, climbing shrubbery, always during rainy weather. Temperature usually 10-15C. |
| Culture Notes | Schistocerca gregaria is infected by feeding a counted number of eggs (10-25 produce 99% females; 30-70 produce a mix of males and small females). Eggs are obtained by hemisectioning females. Worms are removed from the host 40 days (for low infections) or 25 days (for high infections) post infection. They are held in moist soil in clay flower pots in a greenhouse (temperature variable, warmer than ambient) until the desired stage is attained. They may be stored in the vegetable compartment of a refrigerator in a plastic bag of moist soil. They may be shipped live in moist soil. |
| Cryopreservation | Can be shipped live on ice and maintained in soil for months at 5-10C in a refrigerator. |
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| Labs that keep this strain | Source from whence the strain was obtained |
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| Bur: A. H. Jay Burr | Bur |