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The Tachinid Parasites of Archips cerasivorana Fitch. (1) Dichaetoneura leucoptera Johns. (Diptera)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. R. Thompson
W. R. Thompson
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Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control
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The Tortricid Archips cerasivorana, described in 1856 by Fitch and usually known by the rather cumbersome name of the Cherry-Tree Ugly Nest Tortricid, is a well known insect, widely distributed in the United States and Canada. Its life-history and habits are described in many of the standard textbooks. The account given is usually rather vague but a more complete and satisfactory treatment is to be found in a paper published by A. B. Baird in 1918. The insect hibernates in the egg stage. The eggs hatch in the latter part of May and during early June. The larvae construct a web which they gradually extend over the foliage on which they feed. In the web they construct silk lined cells in which they live individually when not at work. They are full grown by about the middle of July or later. Their principal food plant is the choke-cherry but occasionally they attack the cultivated cherry.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 1953 , pp. 19 - 30
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1953

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