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SELECTION OF OVIPOSITIONAL SITES BY THE EUROPEAN PINE SAWFLY, NEODIPRION SERTIFER (HYMENOPTERA: DIPRIONIDAE), ON SCOTS PINE1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Yvan J. Hardy
Affiliation:
Département d'Amenagement et de Sylviculture, Université Laval, Québec
Douglas C. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York

Abstract

On Scots pine, Neodiprion sertifer prefers the lowermost needle of fascicles on the distal one-third of shoots for oviposition. The amount of divergence between needles in a fascicle may influence the selection of oviposition sites, as the needles were further apart in egg-bearing fascicles. The interior diameter of resin canals was significantly greater on egg-bearing than non-egg-bearing needles.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1975

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