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INFLUENCE OF HOST ON LARVAL SURVIVAL AND ADULT FECUNDITY OF CHORISTONEURA CONFLICTANA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Roy C. Beckwith*
Affiliation:
Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, College, Alaska

Abstract

Laboratory experiments indicate a diet of quaking aspen is essential to give impetus to a population increase of the large aspen tortrix. The effects of starvation and of five different host plants on larval survival, pupal weights, and adult egg potential are reported.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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