Abstract
Abstract: Potted Scots pine plants with a severely reduced water supply were used as food plants for Neodiprion sertifer. N. sertifer larvae remained caged on the plants from larval hatching to cocoon spinning. The treatment accelerated larval development and increased adult size, compared to insects on well‐watered controls. Larval mortality tended to be lower in stressed trees, but seemed partly determined by genetic factors. Such factors appeared to be of minor significance for developmental rates and adult size.
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