Manipulation of host plant biomass allocation and resource regulation by the larch bud gall midge

Yuri N. Baranchikov

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Manipulation of host plant biomass allocation and resource regulation by the larch bud gall midge

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Authors:

Yuri N. Baranchikov

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 291-292.

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Abstract

Intensive herbivory may influence the resources available to the next generation of herbivore in three ways: quantity may decrease, be unchanged, or increase. There are now two good examples of the last possibility. One of them concerns Monochamus beetles on firs in Siberia (Isaev et al. 1984), and the other a galling sawfly on willow in Arizona (Craig et al. 1986). The highly intimate and sedentary way of life of galling insects should predispose them to evolve the means to manipulate their hosts. Therefore, it is not surprising that a third example which we report herein deals also with a gallmaker.

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Baranchikov, Yuri N. 1991. Manipulation of host plant biomass allocation and resource regulation by the larch bud gall midge. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 291-292.