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PATHOGENICITY OF ANUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS TO FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR, MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA (HÜBNER) (LEPIDOPTERA: LASIOCAMPIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

P.M. Ebling  and
W.J. Kaupp
P.M. Ebling
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, PO Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada P6A 5M7
W.J. Kaupp
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, PO Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada P6A 5M7
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The forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hiibner, is widely distributed throughout North America and is subject to a variety of naturally occurring infectious diseases, including a nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV). NPVs have been isolated from several Malacosoma species in North America and Europe, including M. disstria, M. neustria, M. americanum, M. fragile, M. alpicola, M. californicum, M. pluviale, and M. constrictum (Stairs 1964). The viruses isolated from all North American species of Malacosoma may be cross transmitted from one species to another (Clark 1958). Distinctive isolates of NPV have been characterized from populations of M. disstria in Alberta (Keddie and Erlandson 1995) and Ontario (Ebling and Kaupp 1995).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 129 , Issue 1 , February 1997 , pp. 195 - 196
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1997

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