The cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus (L.), a Eurasian pest of small grains, was first identified in 1962 from specimens collected in Berrien Co., Mich., although damage had been observed as early as 1959 (Castro et al. 1965).
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Frederick W. Stehr (1970) studied this question.
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