Survival at low temperature of larvae of the pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa from an area of range expansion

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 313-320

  Hoch, Gernot ^a   Toffolo, Edoardo Petrucco ^b   Netherer, Sigrid ^a   Battisti, Andrea ^b   Schopf, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chill injury; Cold hardiness; Freeze tolerance; Larval survival; Lepidoptera; Range expansion; Supercooling point

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOTODONTIDAE; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 67651222418     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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