Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Apr 1985
OVIPOSITION PREFERENCES OF THE NANTUCKET PINE TIP MOTH (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE) ON LOBLOLLY AND SLASH PINE
OVIPOSITION PREFERENCES OF THE NANTUCKET PINE TIP MOTH (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE) ON LOBLOLLY AND SLASH PINE
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Page Range: 204 – 206
The Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock), oviposited preferentially on loblolly pine in plantings of adjacent blocks of 4-year-old loblolly and slash pines. Ninety-three percent of 719 eggs found were on loblolly pine. More eggs were deposited on the needles than on shoots. Fifty-six and 64 percent of the eggs were deposited on needles of loblolly pine during the first and fourth generations, respectively. Sixty-one and 100 percent of the eggs were deposted on needles of slash pine during the first and fourth generations, respectively.
Keywords: Tip moth;
Rhyacionia
; resistance; oviposition preference; host preference
Copyright: © 1985 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
Contributor Notes
1 Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
2 Department of Forestry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631.
Accepted: 08 May 1985