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Life-History Studies of Spaelotis clandestina (Harr.) and Polia purpurissata (Grt.) (Lepidoptera: Phalaenidae) in Low-bush Blueberry Areas in New Brunswick1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. W. Wood
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick
W. T. A. Neilson
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick
C. W. Maxwell
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick
J. A. McKiel
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Extract

Wood (1951) published a list of lepidopterous larvae collected from commercial blueberry fields in Charlotte County. N.B. Among the species consistently collected annually from 1947 to 1952 are the cutworms Spaelotis clandestina (Harr.) and Polia purpurissata (Grt.). Although notes on both species have been given by various authors, including Crumb (1929, 1932), Gibson (1915), and Phipps (19301, no complete account of their life-histories has been published.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1954

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