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Mass Transport of Forest Tent Caterpillar Moths, Malacosoma disstria Hübner, by a Cold Front1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Clifford E. Brown
Clifford E. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry of Canada, Forest Research Laboratory, Calgary, Alberta
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Abstract

On 12–13 July 1964, forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hübner, adults were carried southward from an outbreak in the forested area of central Alberta for at least 300 miles by the turbulent air associated with a cold front. Details of the area of dispersal and the weather system responsible are given.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 97 , Issue 10 , October 1965 , pp. 1073 - 1075
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1965

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