Seasonal Development of the Southern Pine Beetle in East Texas
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 60 (3) , 656-658
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/60.3.656
Abstract
The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmerman, passed through 7 (and a partial 8th) consecutive development periods in field-infested bolts kept in an outdoor insectary in east Texas in 1962. This phenomenon suggested that approximately 7 generations may develop each year under favorable forest conditions, A summer generation was complieted in as few as 26 days, but 3½ months were required for a winter generation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: