Winter foraging patterns and voluntary hypothermia in the social caterpillar Eucheira socialis

• Published in: Ecological Entomology
• Main Authors: Fitzgerald, Terrence D., Underwood, Dessie L. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Midwinter; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00236.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2311.2000.00236.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00236.x/fullpdf

Summary 1. Analysis of 28 years of weather data for the Sierra Madre Occidentals of Mexico showed that while flight, mating, and oviposition of the social caterpillar Eucheira socialis (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) occurred in the warmest and wettest months, much of the caterpillar’s feeding and growth oc...