Incidence and impact of Entomophaga aulicae (Zygomycetes: Entomophthorales) and a nucleopolyhedrovirus in an outbreak of the whitemarked tussock moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 825-845

  Van Frankenhuyzen, K ^a,b   Ebling, P ^a   Thurston, G ^b   Lucarotti, C ^b   Royama, T ^b   Guscott, R ^c   Georgeson, E ^c   Silver, J ^d  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; MOTH; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRAL DISEASE;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ABIES BALSAMEA; ENTOMOPHAGA AULICAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; HEMEROCAMPA LEUCOSTIGMA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; ORGYIA LEUCOSTIGMA; PINACEAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0036864487     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent134825-6     Document Type: Article

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