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INFLUENCE OF HOST FOLIAGE ON DEVELOPMENT, SURVIVAL, FECUNDITY, AND OVIPOSITION OF THE SPEAR-MARKED BLACK MOTH, RHEUMAPTERA HASTATA (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Richard A. Werner
Richard A. Werner
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Institute of Northern Forestry, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701
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Abstract

Spear-marked black moth, Rheumaptera hastata (L.), females tended to oviposit more readily on paper birch, Betula papyrifera Marsh., than other deciduous plants indigenous to interior Alaska. Larval feeding intensity was about 40% higher on birch foliage than on other host plants. Larvae reared on various host plant species differed in survival, development rate, and body weight. Food quality of host plants on which females were reared as larvae affected oviposition, fecundity, and egg viability. Larval development rate and survival decreased when fed foliage from birch trees that were repeatedly defoliated for 2 and 3 years.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 3 , March 1979 , pp. 317 - 322
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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