Plants harbour a wide range of leaf-feeding insects whose survival and fitness are influenced by both energy-rich molecules phytochemicals in the host foliage. Yet, how leaf chemical diversity insect microbiota—key factors ecological physiological processes—impact nutrition still poorly understood. To study effects metabolic composition on herbivory resistance performance, we fed larvae special...

Thirty sites of managed and native habitats were surveyed for leafrollers (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the apple producing region of central Washington State and northern Oregon from September through November 1997-2000 to discover species that supported overwintering by the parasitoid Colpoclypeus florus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). C. florus, a species introduced from Europe, requires...

شب پره جوانه خوار بلوط Tortrix viridana, Linnaeus, 1758 (Lep. Tortricidae) یکی از آفات مهم گونه های مختلف جنس Quercus spp. می باشد. لاروهای این آفت ها و برگ درختان تغذیه نمایند باعث بی برگی کامل مورد نظر شوند. در تحقیق تفاوت ژنتیکی پروانه با استفاده مارکرهای ISSR بر اساس میزبان آن جنگل شمال غرب ایران مطالعه قرار گرفت. 19 جمعیت شامل 171 فرد که سه branti Lindl. 1840, infectoria Oliv. 1801 libani ...

Delay of mating was examined as a possible mechanism for population decreases associated with mating disruption for codling moth, Cydia pomonella L., and obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Harris) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). We examined the effect of delaying female mating 0, 2, 4, or 6 d while holding male age constant on life table parameters of both species. We found that inc...