Host-plant use in the range expansion of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 481-490

  Stastny, Michael ^a,b   Battisti, Andrea ^b   Petrucco Toffolo, Edoardo ^b   Schlyter, Fredrik ^c   Larsson, Stig ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Female longevity; Host plants; Host preference; Larval performance; Life history; Oviposition; Pinus mugo; Pinus nigra; Pinus sylvestris; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH RATE; HOST PLANT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANGE EXPANSION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOTODONTIDAE; PINUS MUGO; PINUS NIGRA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 33748619007     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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