INFLUENCE OF HOST ON LARVAL SURVIVAL AND ADULT FECUNDITY OF <i>CHORISTONEURA CONFLICTANA</i> (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)

Abstract

Abstract Laboratory experiments indicate a diet of quaking aspen is essential to give impetus to a population increase of the large aspen tortrix. The effects of starvation and of five different host plants on larval survival, pupal weights, and adult egg potential are reported.