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Lymantria dispar dispar

Index Lymantria dispar dispar

Lymantria dispar dispar, commonly known as the gypsy moth, European gypsy moth, or North American gypsy moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae that is of Eurasian origin. [1]

83 relations: Abies balsamea, Alnus incana, Apple, Aspen, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Baltimore oriole, Betula papyrifera, Betula populifolia, Black-capped chickadee, Blue jay, Calosoma sycophanta, Carl Linnaeus, Catalpa, Catbird, Caterpillar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, Compsilura concinnata, Contact dermatitis, Cornus florida, Crataegus, Deciduous, Eastern towhee, Egg, Entomophaga maimaiga, Erebidae, European robin, Exorista larvarum, Fraxinus, Glyptapanteles, Ilex opaca, Instar, Invasive species, Invertebrate, Juglans cinerea, Juglans nigra, Kalmia latifolia, Larva, Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Liquidambar, Liriodendron, Lymantria dispar, Lymantria dispar asiatica, Lymantria dispar japonica, Lymantria dispar multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus, Lymantriinae, Manila folder, Maria Elizabeth Fernald, Medford, Massachusetts, Moth, Moulting, ..., Nocturnality, Northeastern United States, Northern short-tailed shrew, Nymphalis antiopa, Oak, Ovipositor, Papilio canadensis, Parasetigena, Pheromone, Pine, Platanus occidentalis, Population dynamics, Populus, Populus sect. Aigeiros, Predation, Red-eyed vireo, Resource, Rhododendron, Rocky Mountains, Seta, Sexual selection, Spermatophore, Spruce, Tachinidae, Tent caterpillar, The Boston Globe, Thuja, Tilia americana, Toxicodendron radicans, Tsuga, Virus classification, White-footed mouse, Willow. Expand index (33 more) »

Abies balsamea

Abies balsamea or balsam fir is a North American fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada (Newfoundland west to central British Columbia) and the northeastern United States (Minnesota east to Maine, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia).

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Alnus incana

Alnus incana, the grey alder or speckled alder, is a species of alder with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Apple

An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus pumila).

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (December 26, 1827 – April 22, 1895) was a French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist.

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Baltimore oriole

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird.

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Betula papyrifera

Betula papyrifera (paper birch, also known as white birch and canoe birch) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America.

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Betula populifolia

Betula populifolia (gray or grey birch) is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America.

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Black-capped chickadee

The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests.

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Blue jay

The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to North America.

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Calosoma sycophanta

The Calosoma sycophanta or forest caterpillar hunter is a ground beetle belonging to the family Carabidae.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Catalpa

Catalpa, commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.

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Catbird

Several unrelated groups of songbirds are called catbirds because of their wailing calls, which resemble a cat's meowing.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, southern white cedar, whitecedar, or false-cypress), a species of Cupressaceae, is native to the Atlantic coast of North America and is found from southern Maine to Georgia and along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Mississippi.

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Compsilura concinnata

Compsilura concinnata (tachinid fly; order Diptera) is a parasitoid native to Europe that was introduced to North America in 1906 to control the population of an exotic forest, univoltine, gypsy moth named Lymantria dispar.

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Contact dermatitis

Contact dermatitis is a type of inflammation of the skin.

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Cornus florida

Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico.

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Crataegus

Crataegus (from the Greek kratos "strength" and akis "sharp", referring to the thorns of some species) commonly called hawthorn, thornapple,Voss, E. G. 1985.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Eastern towhee

The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) is a large New World sparrow.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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Entomophaga maimaiga

Entomophaga maimaiga is a Japanese fungus which has shown striking success in managing Gypsy Moth populations in North America.

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Erebidae

The Erebidae are a family of moths in the Noctuoidea superfamily.

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European robin

The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.

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Exorista larvarum

Exorista larvarum is a Palaearctic species of fly in the family Tachinidae.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.

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Glyptapanteles

Glyptapanteles is a genus of endoparasitoid wasps found in Central and North America and New Zealand.

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Ilex opaca

Ilex opaca, the American holly, is a species of holly, native to the eastern and south-central United States, from coastal Massachusetts south to central Florida, and west to southeastern Missouri and eastern Texas.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Juglans cinerea

Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America.

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Kalmia latifolia

Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae

In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".

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Liquidambar

Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (sweet gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species.

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Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large deciduous trees in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).

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Lymantria dispar

Lymantria dispar, the gypsy moth, are moths in the family Erebidae.

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Lymantria dispar asiatica

Lymantria dispar asiatica, the Asian gypsy moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae of Eurasian origin.

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Lymantria dispar japonica

Lymantria dispar japonica, commonly known as the Japanese gypsy moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae of Eurasian origin.

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Lymantria dispar multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus

Lymantria dispar multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus or LdMNPV is a viral infection in gypsy moths (Lymantria dispar) that causes infected larvae to die and disintegrate.

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Lymantriinae

The Lymantriinae (formerly called the Lymantriidae) are a subfamily of moths of the Erebidae family.

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Manila folder

The manila folder is a file folder designed to contain documents.

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Maria Elizabeth Fernald

Maria Elizabeth Smith Fernald (May 24, 1839 – October 6, 1919) was an American entomologist who wrote a major reference book, A Catalogue of the Coccidae of the World.

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Medford, Massachusetts

Medford is a city 3.2 miles northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often, but not always, an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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Northeastern United States

The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the American Northeast or simply the Northeast, is a geographical region of the United States bordered to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Southern United States, and to the west by the Midwestern United States.

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Northern short-tailed shrew

The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) is the largest shrew in the genus Blarina, and occurs in the northeastern region of North America.

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Nymphalis antiopa

Nymphalis antiopa, known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Ovipositor

The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs.

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Papilio canadensis

Papilio canadensis, the Canadian tiger swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

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Parasetigena

Parasetigena is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

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Pheromone

A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Platanus occidentalis

Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America.

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Population dynamics

Population dynamics is the branch of life sciences that studies the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems, and the biological and environmental processes driving them (such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration).

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Populus sect. Aigeiros

Populus section Aigeiros is a section of three species in the genus Populus, the poplars.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Red-eyed vireo

The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird, in length.

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Resource

A resource is a source or supply from which a benefit is produced.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Seta

In biology, setae (singular seta; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.

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Sexual selection

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).

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Spermatophore

A spermatophore or sperm ampulla is a capsule or mass containing spermatozoa created by males of various animal species, especially salamanders and arthropods, and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore during reproduction.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Tachinidae

The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered.

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Tent caterpillar

Tent caterpillars are moderately sized caterpillars, or moth larvae, belonging to the genus Malacosoma in the family Lasiocampidae.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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Thuja

Thuja is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family).

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Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the Malvaceae family, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.

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Toxicodendron radicans

Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as eastern poison ivy or poison ivy, is a poisonous Asian and Eastern North American flowering plant that is well-known for causing urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, an itchy, irritating, and sometimes painful rash, in most people who touch it.

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Tsuga

Tsuga (from 栂 (ツガ), the name of Tsuga sieboldii) is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae.

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Virus classification

Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system.

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White-footed mouse

The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwest United States and Mexico.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymantria_dispar_dispar

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