A mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) adult development rate model confirms evolved geographic differences.

ABSTRACT: Insects live in a wide range of thermal environments and have evolved species- and location-specific physiological processes for survival in hot and cold extremes. Thermally driven dormancy strategies, development rates and thresholds are important for synchronizing cohorts within a population and to local climates and often vary among populations within a species. Mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), is a widely distributed forest insect native to North America with clinal genetic differentiation in thermally dependent traits. MPB development occurs in Pinus phloem beneath the bark, and its cryptic habitat makes experimentation difficult, particularly for the adult stage. We describe a novel method for modeling MPB adult deve

SUBMITTER: Wangen CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11520411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature