A rapid altitudinal range expansion in the pine processionary moth produced by the 2003 climatic anomaly

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREA BATTISTI ◽  
MICHAEL STASTNY ◽  
EMILIANO BUFFO ◽  
STIG LARSSON
Keyword(s):  
Range Expansion ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Climatic Anomaly ◽  
Processionary Moth ◽  
Altitudinal Range

Host-plant use in the range expansion of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL STASTNY ◽  
ANDREA BATTISTI ◽  
EDOARDO PETRUCCO-TOFFOLO ◽  
FREDRIK SCHLYTER ◽  
STIG LARSSON
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Thaumetopoea Pityocampa ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Plant Use ◽  
Processionary Moth ◽  
Host Plant Use

Climate constrains range expansion of an allochronic population of the pine processionary moth

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1288-1300 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Godefroid ◽  
S. Rocha ◽  
H. Santos ◽  
M.-R. Paiva ◽  
C. Burban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Range Expansion ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Processionary Moth

Non-host volatiles mediate associational resistance to the pine processionary moth

Oecologia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Jactel ◽  
G. Birgersson ◽  
S. Andersson ◽  
F. Schlyter
Keyword(s):  
Associational Resistance ◽  
Host Volatiles ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Processionary Moth

Interactions between pupae of the pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) and parasitoids in a Pinus forest

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.P. Bonsignore ◽  
F. Manti ◽  
E. Castiglione
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Thaumetopoea Pityocampa ◽  
Parasitoid Species ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Processionary Moth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Forest Lepidoptera

AbstractParasitoids are significant enemies of many economically important insects and there is some evidence to suggest that their actions have a role in terminating the outbreaks of forest Lepidoptera populations. In this study, we examined the impact of parasitoids on the pupae of the pine processionary moth, and highlighted the presence of several parasitoid species for this developmental stage. A higher rate of parasitism was found when the pupal density in the soil was reduced, but the rate of parasitism was not influenced by pupal morphological traits or by the presence or absence of a cocoon around a pupa. Of the external factors examined, a delay in the time of descent of larvae from the trees had a positive effect on the level of parasitism. Observational data indicated that dipteran and hymenopteran were the most abundant parasitoids to emerge from moth pupae. Our study highlights the complexity of the parasitoid–host dynamics, and stresses the importance of carefully determining environmental effects on host–parasitoid relations.

scholarly journals Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e7169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inazio Garin ◽  
Joxerra Aihartza ◽  
Urtzi Goiti ◽  
Aitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero ◽  
Jesús Nogueras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Response ◽  
Sampling Site ◽  
Thaumetopoea Pityocampa ◽  
Forest Pest ◽  
Pine Processionary Moth ◽  
Processionary Moth ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Dispersal Behavior ◽  
Foraging Guilds ◽  
Typical Prey

Outbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats’ prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cyclical outbreaks attract a wide array of bat species from different foraging guilds. We test whether bats feed upon T. pityocampa in the Iberian Peninsula irrespective of the predator’s ecological and morphological features. We found that seven out of ten bat species belonging to different foraging guilds contained T. pityocampa DNA in their faeces and no difference was found in the foraging frequency among foraging guilds. A different size of the typical prey or the lack of fondness for moths can explain the absence of the pest in some bat species. Moreover, the intraspecific foraging frequency of T. pityocampa also changed with the sampling site likely representing differential availability of the moth. Lack of information on flight and dispersal behavior or the tympanate nature of the adult moth complicates understanding how different foraging guilds of bats prey upon the same prey. Our data suggests that T. pityocampa is a remarkable food source for many thousands of individual bats in the study area and we anticipate that more bats besides the species studied here are consuming this moth.

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