Control of Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Nh, 1994

The Black Cherry Tree/Eastern Tent Caterpillar/ Eastern Tent Caterpillar Frass System

The Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS) and the Eastern Tent Caterpillar: Immunological Testing of Aborting Mares

Mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS) describes a condition of equine early-term and late-term fetal losses in which the etiology has not been fully characterized. Involvement of Eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) has been highly considered because oral administration of ETC rapidly induces abortion in pregnant mares. Pathologic lesions observed in placental and fetal tissues of horses with chara...

Life History and Age-Specific Mortality of Eastern Tent Caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)

Malacosoma americanum (F.) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) was recently implicated in early fetal losses and late-term abortions of pregnant mares in the thoroughbred and saddlebred industry centered in central Kentucky. The direct role of the caterpillars in these losses prompted the need for a more thorough understanding of life history and age-speciÞc biology, to develop more precise management...

The mare reproductive loss syndrome and the eastern tent caterpillar: a toxicokinetic/statistical analysis with clinical, epidemiologic, and mechanistic implications.

During 2001, central Kentucky experienced acute transient epidemics of early and late fetal losses, pericarditis, and unilateral endophthalmitis, collectively referred to as mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS). A toxicokinetic/statistical analysis of experimental and field MRLS data was conducted using accelerated failure time (AFT) analysis of abortions following administration of Eastern t...

Competitive effects of the forest tent caterpillar on the gallers and leaf-miners of trembling aspen

Interspecific competition has been identified as a major structuring force in phytophagous arthropod communities. We would expect to find particularly strong competitive effects in communities with outbreaking components, where the joint food resource is depleted by a single super-abundant species. To assess how arthropod assemblages of the trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides, Salicaceae) resp...