Factors Confronting a Shelter-Building Caterpillar at Spring Emergence

• Published in: Journal of insect behavior Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 247 - 257
• Main Author: Morse, Douglass H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Animal Ecology; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Butterflies & moths; Caterpillars; Cold; Entomology; Evolutionary Biology; Feeding; Ferns; ferns and fern allies; Herpetogramma; Invertebrates; Life Sciences; Litter; Mortality; moths; Neurobiology; Overwintering; Parasitism; Predation; predator avoidance; Shelters; spring; weather; Spring emergence; Fern moth; Foraging; Overwintering; Crambidae; Shelter-building; Caterpillar; Predation

Weather often subjects overwintering small invertebrates to heavy losses and forces survivors emerging from the litter to respond quickly to achieve short-term success. On spring emergence both feeding and predator avoidance may compete for immediate attention. Caterpillars of the shelter-building f...