Bionomics of bagworms (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2009, Pages 209-226

  Rhainds, Marc ^a   Davis, Donald R ^b   Price, Peter W ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up effects; Flightlessness; Mating failure; Parthenogeny; Phylogenetic constraint hypothesis; Protogyny

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; PSYCHIDAE;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MOTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SEASON;

ANIMALS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOTHS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

EID: 49149115564     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.54.110807.090448     Document Type: Article

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