Predation of Range Caterpillar,Hemileuca oliviae(Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) at Various Stages of Development by Different Species of Rodents in New Mexico During 19801
作者:
Tom S. Bellows,
John C. Owens,
Ellis W. Huddleston,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 11,
issue 6
页码: 1211-1215
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1093/ee/11.6.1211
出版商: Oxford University Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
The hypothesis that differences in woodland and grassland rodent fauna were responsible for the absence of range caterpillar,Hemileuca oliviaeCockerell, in woodlands adjacent to infested grasslands was tested by field and laboratory experiments. There was little predation by any species on range caterpillar larvae. Three species exhibited active predation on eggs and pupae. Two of these species,Peromyscus maniculatus(Wagner) andOnychomys leucogaster(Wied-Neuwied), were found in grasslands inhabited by the range caterpillar. The third species,Peromyscus truei(Schufelt), was common in woodlands and showed particularly avid predation of range caterpillar pupae. The greater density and predation rate of this species over the grassland species was probably an important factor limiting the survival of range caterpillar in woodlands even when favorable host plants were present.
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