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A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONOPHTHORUS SHOOT-INFESTING BEETLES AND CONOPHTHORUS RESINOSAE (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE): I. COMPARATIVE LIFE HISTORY STUDIES IN MICHIGAN 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. E. McPherson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
L. F. Wilson
Affiliation:
North Central Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan
F. W. Stehr
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Abstract

Life histories of Conophthorus beetles attacking the shoot tips of jack, red, Scotch, and ponderosa pines were studied and compared with the life history of the red pine cone beetle, Conophthorus resinosae Hopkins. The tip-infesting beetles have not been morphologically separated from C. resinosae. The beetles attacking the shoots of jack, red, Scotch, and ponderosa pines have similar life histories which differ from that of C. resinosae. The latter is distinctly univoltine, while the tip-infesting beetles appear to be bivoltine. Also, dates of appearance and seasonal development differ.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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