Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-9pm4c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T13:50:20.453Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

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
Roy C. Beckwith*
Affiliation:
Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, College, Alaska
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

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
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 102 , Issue 11 , November 1970 , pp. 1474 - 1480
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Beckwith, R. C. 1968. The large aspen tortrix, Choristoneura conflictana (Wlkr.), in interior Alaska. Pacif. NW. Forest & Range Exp. Stn. U.S. Dep. Agric. Forest Serv. Res. Note PNW-81, 10 pp.Google Scholar
Drooz, A. T. 1965. Some relationships between host, egg potential, and pupal weight of the elm spanworm, Ennomos subsignarius (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 58: 243–245.10.1093/aesa/58.2.243CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Duncan, D. B. 1955. Multiple range and multiple F tests. Biometrics 11: 1–42.10.2307/3001478CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eidt, D. C., and Little, C. H. A.. 1968. Insect control by artificially prolonging plant dormancy — a new approach. Can. Ent. 100: 1278–1279.10.4039/Ent1001278-12CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Embree, D. G. 1965. The population dynamics of the winter moth in Nova Scotia, 1954–1962. Mem. ent. Soc. Can., No. 46.10.4039/entm9746fvCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kramer, C. Y. 1956. Extension of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications. Biometrics 12: 307–310.10.2307/3001469CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Prentice, R. M. 1951. Further notes on the large aspen tortrix. Bi-mon. Progr. Rep. Div. Forest Biol., Ottawa 7(5): 2.Google Scholar
Prentice, R. M. 1955. The life history and some aspects of the ecology of the large aspen tortrix, Choristoneura conflictana (Wlkr.) (N. Comb.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Can. Ent. 87: 461–473.10.4039/Ent87461-11CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stehr, G. 1954. A laboratory method for rearing the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.), (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Can. Ent. 86: 423–428.10.4039/Ent86423-9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wickman, B. E. 1963. The large aspen tortrix, Choristoneura conflictana in California (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). J. econ. Ent. 56: 593–596.10.1093/jee/56.5.593CrossRefGoogle Scholar