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SPINY ELM CATERPILLARS, NYMPHALIS ANTIOPA (NYMPHALIDAE: LEPIDOPTERA), FEEDING ON SAINFOIN, ONOBRYCHIS VICIAEFOLIA (LEGUMINOSAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J.R. Byers  and
K.W. Richards
J.R. Byers
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
K.W. Richards
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
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Larvae of the mourning cloak butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa (L.), are gregarious feeders occumng most commonly on Salix spp. (willows), Ulmus spp. (elms), Populus spp. (poplars), and Betula spp. (birches), but occasionally on other trees and shrubs (McGugan 1958; Tietz 1972; Howe 1975). They frequently cause noticeable defoliation of ornamental elms; hence the common name, spiny elm caterpillar (Rose and Lindquist 1982).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 118 , Issue 9 , September 1986 , pp. 941 - 942
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1986

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