The apple-and-thorn-skeletonizer; <i>Eutromula pariana</i> ;Lepidoptera; Choreutidae; parasites

Authors

  • Miktat Doganlar Pestology Centre Department of Biological Sciences Simon Fraser Univeristy Burnaby, B.C.
  • Bryan P. Beirne Pestology Centre Department of Biological Sciences Simon Fraser Univeristy Burnaby, B.C.

Abstract

<i>Eutromula pariana</i> (Clerck) overwinters mainly in the pupal stage in south-western British Columbia. The moths emerge in warm periods and can survive severe cold. Parasitism in 1977-78 was by 29 species and totalled 54 percent. <i>Apanteles longicauda</i> (Wesm.), an introduced European Braconid species, comprised 80 percent of the parasites. The host may be an important reservoir for <i>A. longicauda</i> as a parasite of fruit-tree leaf-rollers.

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2019-08-28

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Vol. 78 (1981): Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia

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