关键词: 红头豆芫菁, 褐边齿爪芫菁, 黄脊竹蝗, 泡桐

Abstract: The larvae of the red-headed blister beetles can eat the eggs of the bamboo locust (Ceracris kiangsu), and the adults of these beetles like to eat the leaves of paulownia trees. It is a good idea to use the red-headed blistel beetles to control the bamboo locusts.So far two species of the red-headed blister beetles have been found in Jing'an county, Jiangxi province: one is Epicauta ruficeps Illiger, the other is Denierella serrala Kaszab. The adults of the beetles lay eggs in the same place as the locusts do. One larva of the red-headed bliter beetle can eat up an egg mass of the locust.It is recommend that paulownia trees are suitable to plant at the foot of the hill where bamboo grows or in the open places of the bamboo forest or along the roads near the forest. The number of paulownia trees planted is 2 in 10 mu bamboo forest. Paulownia trees can lure many red-headed blister beetles in three years after they are planted, and in 4 or 5 years the outbreak of the bamboo locusts will be controlled.

Key words: Epicauta ruficeps, Denierella serrala, Ceracris kiangsu, Paulownia spp.