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1- AND 2-YEAR DORMANCY OF THE DOUGLAS-FIR CONE MOTH, BARBARA COLFAXANA KFT. (LEPIDOPTERA: OLETHREUTIDAE): POSSIBLE RELATION TO INDIVIDUAL WEIGHTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

T.S. Sahota
Affiliation:
Forestry Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
A. Ibaraki
Affiliation:
Forestry Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5

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Many cone and seed insects exhibit a dormancy in which the individuals may undergo a diapause that lasts 1, 2, or more winters and the proportion of 1-year diapause (1YD) and 2-year diapause (2YD) varies from year to year (Hedlin et al. 1980). Thus, segregating the two diapause types carries a practical importance for forecasting the attacking adult population in a given year. Based primarily on teleological reasoning it has been argued that insects committed to a longer dormancy may have higher weights with metabolites to sustain survival for a longer period. Individual weights have been examined with the hope of separating 1YD from 2YD individuals.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1991

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