Oviposition Behavior and Temperature Effects on Egg Development of the Southern Pine Cone worm Dioryctria amatella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 13 (6) , 1624-1626
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.6.1624
Abstract
Peak oviposition by Dioryctria amatella (Hulst) females occurred from 5 to 7 days after moth emergence and ca. 80% of the eggs were laid during the period from 3 to 12 days after emergence. The threshold temperature for D. amatella egg development was determmed to be 11°C. The number of degree-days required for complete egg development ranged from a mean of 115.5 degree-days at 16°C to 84 degree-days at 28°C. The estimated number of degree-days required for egg hatch was 86.6.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: