ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Biocalendar foreshows winter moth hatch in Massachusetts, USA

Monday, November 12, 2012
Exhibit Hall A, Floor One (Knoxville Convention Center)
Jarrod Fowler , Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Chronological sequences of phenological events and durations can be recorded to form descriptive or relational biological calendars (biocalendars). A relational biocalendar composed of winter moth (Operophtera brumata [L.] [Lepidoptera: Geometridae]) first hatch dates with ornamental plant first flowering dates observed and sampled from University of Massachusetts Extension Landscape Messages 2005-2012 was formed to foreshow O. brumata first hatch in Massachusetts, USA. Results indicate Pieris japonica (Thunb. D. Don ex G. Don) first flowering significantly foreshows while Narcissus spp. (L.) first flowering significantly shows O. brumata first hatch. First flowering of P. japonica and Narcissus spp. can be used to schedule monitoring and management of invasive O. brumata populations in coastal and eastern Massachusetts.

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