Oviposition in an eruptive moth species, Yponomeuta evonymellus, is insensitive to the population density experienced during the larval period

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 379-386

  Javoiš, Juhan ^a   Tammaru, Toomas ^b   Käär, Miia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conspecific density; Defoliation; Dispersal; Lepidoptera; Overcrowding; Population density regulation; Population outbreaks; Prunus padus; Reproductive behaviour; Small ermine moth; Yponomeutidae

Indexed keywords

LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MUSTELA ERMINEA; PADUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PADUS; YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLUS; YPONOMEUTA RORELLUS; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 20444483373     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2005.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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