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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...
Autores principales: | Uemura, Mizuki, Zalucki, Myron P., Battisti, Andrea |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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