Excerpt from Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1990, Vol. 92 Life history. - As is true for most families of moths, one of the most pressing needs for fieldwork among the Eriocottidae is for studies on life history and the immature stages. As pointed out by Nielsen little is known of their biology. Apparently few members of Eriocottidae have been reared, and their larval habits have largely been speculated (e.g. Possibly feeding in de cayed wood, leaves, or as stemborers). Adults appear to be ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1990, Vol. 92 Life history. - As is true for most families of moths, one of the most pressing needs for fieldwork among the Eriocottidae is for studies on life history and the immature stages. As pointed out by Nielsen little is known of their biology. Apparently few members of Eriocottidae have been reared, and their larval habits have largely been speculated (e.g. Possibly feeding in de cayed wood, leaves, or as stemborers). Adults appear to be univoltine and are ao tive in the spring, both in the northern and southern hemispheres. Adult females of the middle eastern, steppe inhabiting Deutero tinea are Wingless. Their larvae are detri tophagous and construct silken tunnels often with ventilation tubes amongst grass litter (zagulayev 1973, All specimens of Crepidochares collected by me were taken in ultraviolet light traps. The general strue ture of their highly extensible ovipositors indicates that the eggs are inserted into erev ices within the host substrate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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