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Effects of Weather on the Forest Tent Caterpillar Malacosoma disstria Hbn., in Central Canada in the Spring of 19531

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. R. Blais ,
R. M. Prentice ,
W. L. Sippell  and
D. R. Wallace
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Sweetman (1940) suggested that unfavourable spring weather is probably the most important natural check for the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosonza disstria Hbn. He observed that warm weather in April or early May that induces hatching, followed by a week or more of cool weather, frequently destroys the caterpillars. Blackman (1918), Tomlinson (1938), and Hodson (1941) have reported similar observations.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , January 1955 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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