Large Male Caterpillars Are the Primary Builders: Exploring Tent Construction and Foraging Behaviour in Gregarious Pine Processionary Caterpillar

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Thaumetopoea pityocampa caterpillars are a significant pest of conifer trees in Europe and live gregariously in a communal tent with siblings and conspecifics from other colonies. Despite their economic and medical importance, there has been a lack of quantitative information on the...

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Autores principales: Uemura, Mizuki, Zalucki, Myron P., Battisti, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10607817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887841
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14100829

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10607817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887841
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14100829

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