Variation in temperature and dietary nitrogen affect performance of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-64

  Lindroth, Richard L ^a   Klein, Kari A ^a   Hemming, Jocelyn D C ^a   Feuker, Anita M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial diet; climate change; feeding trials; gypsy moth; Lymantria dispar; nitrogen; nutritional ecology; temperature

Indexed keywords

LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE;

DEVELOPMENT RATE; DIETARY NITROGEN; GROWTH; GYPSY MOTH; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030619781     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1997.tb01140.x     Document Type: Article

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