Relationship between foliar chemistry and insect performance: the forest tent caterpillar

Francois Lorenzetti; Yves Mauffette; Eric Bauce

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Relationship between foliar chemistry and insect performance: the forest tent caterpillar

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Francois Lorenzetti, Yves Mauffette, Eric Bauce

Year:

1999

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Horsley, Stephen B.; Long, Robert P., eds. Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium; 1998 June 2-4; Warren, PA. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-261. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 93-97.

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Abstract

Forest tent caterpillar (FTC) feeds on several species of deciduous trees (Stehr and Cook 1968), in northeastern North America, quaking aspen is the preferred host of this spring-feeding insect. FTC commonly defoliates several thousands of hectares of aspen stands each year in Quebec (Bordeleau 1990), although its secondary hosts seldom are attacked.

Parent Publication

Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium

Citation

Lorenzetti, Francois; Mauffette, Yves; Bauce, Eric. 1999. Relationship between foliar chemistry and insect performance: the forest tent caterpillar. In: Horsley, Stephen B.; Long, Robert P., eds. Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium; 1998 June 2-4; Warren, PA. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-261. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 93-97.