Relative suitability of Virginia pine and loblolly pine as host species for Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 668-679

  Veysey, Jessica S ^a   Ayres, Matthew P ^a   Lombardero, María J ^a,b   Hofstetter, Richard W ^a   Klepzig, Kier D ^a,c  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest management; Host selection; Oleoresin; Population dynamics; Secondary attraction

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HOST PREFERENCE; PEST DAMAGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA MINUS; PINUS TAEDA; PINUS VIRGINIANA; SCOLYTIDAE; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 0038234966     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.3.668     Document Type: Article

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