INFLUENCE OF HOST ON LARVAL SURVIVAL AND ADULT FECUNDITY OF CHORISTONEURA CONFLICTANA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)

1 November 1970

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 102 (11) , 1474-1480
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1021474-11

Abstract

Laboratory experiments indicate a diet of quaking aspen is essential to give impetus to a population increase of the large aspen tortrix. The effects of starvation and of five different host plants on larval survival, pupal weights, and adult egg potential are reported.

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