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Humidity Reactions and Water Balance of Larvae of Neodiprion americanus banksianae Roh. and L. lecontei (Fitch) (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. W. Green
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This paper presents the results of bioclimatic investigations of two species of diprionid sawflies, Neodiprion americanus banksianae Roh. and N. lecontei (Fitch), important defoliators of pines in eastern North America. It deals primarily with the reactions of larvae of both species to gradients of evaporation rate.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 86 , Issue 6 , June 1954 , pp. 261 - 274
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1954

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