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On the consumption rate ofNeodiprion sertifer— A reply to a comment by F. Slansky Jr.

✍ Scribed by Stig Larsson; Olle Tenow

Book ID
104733415
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
218 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
0029-8549

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✦ Synopsis

As an answer to a comment by Slansky (Oecologia (Berl) 46 (1980) 133-134) on a recent statement by the present authors (Oecologia (Berl) 43 (1979) 157-172), it is maintained that an evaluation of the relative consumption rate (RCR) of N. sertifer must be made in relation to other tree-feeding herbivores, not to herb-feeders. The average value of available RCR estimates for tree-feeders is 1.3 mg/mg/day compared to 1.9 mg/mg/day for N. sertifer. Thus, we still maintain that N. sertifer has a high consumption rate.

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In a recently published food utilization study of larvae of the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Larsson and Tenow, Oecologia (Berl) 43 (1979) 157-172), it was concluded that a high consumption rate was part of a suite of presumed adaptations exhibited by these larvae for feeding on a food