Tuesday, December 11, 2007
D0402

Survey and DNA analysis of winter moth and other Operophtera in North America captured with phermone-baited traps

Joseph Elkinton, elkinton@ent.umass.edu1, George Boettner, boettner@psis.umass.edu2, Adam Porter, aporter@ent.umass.edu2, Marinko Sremac1, and Rodger Gwiazdowski, rodger@psis.umass.edu3. (1) University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, 250 Natural Resources Rd., rm. #307, Amherst, MA, (2) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, 250 Natural Resources Rd, Amherst, MA, (3) University of Massachusetts, Entomology, 270 Stockbridge Road, fernald Hall, UMASS, Amherst, MA



Species 1: Lepidoptera Geometridae Operophtera brumata (winter moth)
Species 2: Lepidoptera Geometridae Operophtera bruceata (Bruce spanworm)