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Analysis of a Population Sampling Method for the Lodgepole Needle Miner in Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. W. Stark
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Forest Zoology, Calgary, Alberta

Extract

General.—The purpose of this paper is to analyse a sampling method devised to assess larval populations in an outbreak of the lodgepole needle miner, Recurvaria milleri Busck (Busck 1914, Hopping 1945).

The problem of developing an adequate sampling method is intimately concerned with the life-history of the insect, the region of the outbreak and the nature of the forest stand in which the outbreak occurs. In sampling most defoliator populations the problem is made more difficult by external feeding and wandering habits, hence it is usually done in some relatively inactive stage at a fixed time. de Gryse (1934) describes the problems inherent in sampling these insects. The needle miner, however, is fixed in its location for most of its life-cycle and is therefore readily obtainable for study. The problem here is reduced to a statistical one, that of obtaining an acceptable sample i.e. within suitable error limits with due regard for existing variables.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1952

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