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Influence of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Life-span of Adults of the Swaine Jack-pine Sawfly, Neodiprion swainei Middleton (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. G. Pilon
J. G. Pilon
Affiliation:
Forest Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 35, Sillery, Quebec
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Abstract

The life -span of Swaine jack-pine sawfly adults was studied under various constant and alternating temperatures and at four different values of relative humidity. Temperature significantly influenced the life-span of both sexes according to a non-linear equation, and relative humidity according to a linear regression. The influence of temperature varied with relative humidity in the case of males but not in the case of females. The life-span of both sexes was shorter at alternating temperatures than at constant temperatures.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 98 , Issue 8 , August 1966 , pp. 789 - 794
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1966

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