Temperature Modification of Flight and Response to Pheromones in Rhyacionia frustrana12
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 7 (2) , 278-280
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/7.2.278
Abstract
Males of the Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frustrana , flew significantly earlier on cool than on warm nights in response to traps baited with either crude pheromone extract or live females. Moths were unable to sustain flight below 10°C. Initiation of flight appeared to be unrelated to light intensity. The early flight on cool nights increases the probability that sufficient numbers of the moths emerging from overwintering pupae will successfully mate and maintain R. frustrana populations.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- RELATIONSHIP OF AMBIENT TEMPERATURES TO DIEL PERIODICITIES OF SEX ATTRACTION IN SIX SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERAThe Canadian Entomologist, 1976
- Response of the Nantucket Pine Tip Moth to Attractants1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1963