Alsophila pometaria

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Alsophila pometaria - North American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms

geometrid, geometrid moth - slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms

Alsophila, genus Alsophila - geometrid moths

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For example, White and Whitman (2000) found significantly higher fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria Harris; Lepdioptera: Geometridae) densities and percentage defoliation on potted cottonwoods (Populus spp.; Malpighiales; Salicaceae) placed under the worm's preferred host, box elder (Acer neguncki L.; Sapindales: Sapindaceae), than on isolated cottonwoods or cottonwoods placed under conspecifics.

Lack of associational effects between two hosts of an invasive herbivore: Opuntia spp. and Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

In this study we document associational susceptibility among hosts of the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria).

ASSOCIATIONAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF COTTONWOOD TO A BOX ELDER HERBIVORE

The origin and distribution of clonal diversity in Alsophila pometaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).

Differential survival of sexual and asexual Poeciliopsis during environmental stress

The role of parthenogenesis and female aptery in microgeographic, ecological adaptation in the fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria Harris (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).

Why does early-season herbivory affect subsequent budburst?

For example, Futuyma and Phillipi (1987) found mostly positive correlations between larval survival and weight of Alsophila pometaria reared on four tree species.