Local outbreaks of Operophtera brumata and Operophtera fagata cannot be explained by low vulnerability to pupal predation

: Heisswolf A, Käär M, Klemola T, Ruohomäki K

Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

: 2010

: Agricultural and Forest Entomology

: AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

: AGR FOREST ENTOMOL

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: 1461-9555

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00455.x

Overall, pupal predation was even higher in winter and northern winter moths than in autumnal moths. Differences in larval predation and parasitism, as well as in the reproductive capacities of the species, might be other candidates.

Ecology, evolutionary biology