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Certain Host-Parasite Relationships Involving the Spruce Budworm1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Blair M. McGugan
Blair M. McGugan
Affiliation:
Forest Biology Division, Ottawa, Canada
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During studies of the parasite complex of the spruce budworm in the Lake Nipigon region of northern Ontario from 1946 to 1950, data were obtained on certain host-parasite relationships. The data were derived from two sources: the rearing each year of periodic collections of spruce budworms, and the dissection of budworm larvae and pupae that were collected and preserved at 2-day intervals during June of 1948 and 1949. The particular features investigated were: the sex ratio of parasites and its possible relation to the sex of the host; and the effect of parasitism on the apparent sex, rate of development, and size of the host.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 4 , April 1955 , pp. 178 - 187
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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