Distinguishing eastern North American forest moth pests by wing-scale ultrastructure: potential applications in paleoecology

The use of fossil moth wing scales has recently been introduced as a new method to reconstruct population histories of lepidopterans and provide a proxy for insect disturbance. We investigated the potential for using wing-scale ultrastructure to distinguish between the five most common outbreak spec...

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Main Authors: Kristen J. Milbury, Les C. Cwynar, Sara Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019-09-01
Series:FACETS
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Online Access:https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2018-0051