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Natural History of the Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea spp.): New Insights in Relation to Climate Change

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Processionary Moths and Climate Change : An Update

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It is difficult to find a genus of Lepidoptera showing the high variability of life history traits observed in Thaumetopoea. There are typical summer feeding close to winter feeding species, and in one special case a recent switch has been detected even within one species, the pine processionary moth, indicating that the natural history traits are constantly evolving at a fast rate. There are species adapted to cold conditions of high mountains and high latitude close to truly Mediterranean and sub-desert region species. All species have gregarious behaviour as larva and are protected against vertebrate predators by urticating setae.

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  1. Department DAFNAE-Entomology, University of Padua, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, Italy

    Andrea Battisti, Laura Berardi & Mauro Simonato

  2. Orman Fakültesi, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, Isparta, Turkey

    Mustafa Avcı

  3. Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, Vassilika, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dimitrios N. Avtzis

  4. Gestion et Valorisation des Ressources Forestières, Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêts (INRGREF), Ariana, Tunisia

    Mohamed L. Ben Jamaa

  5. Département de Zoologie Agricole et Forestière, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, El Harrach, Algiers, Algeria

    Wahiba Berretima, Gahdab Chakali & Noureddine Rahim

  6. Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Manuela Branco & Helena Santos

  7. Laboratoire de Biotechnologies-Biochimie, Valorisation et Protection des Plantes, FSSM & Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marrakech, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco

    Moulay Ahmed El Alaoui El Fels

  8. INRA Versailles, UMR 1392, IEES, Bat 1, Route de Saint Cyr, 78000, Versailles, France

    Brigitte Frérot

  9. Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    José A. Hódar

  10. Research and Development Institute for Plant Protection, Bucharest, Romania

    Irina Ionescu-Mălăncuş & Traian Manole

  11. Department of Biology, Ahi Evran University, Bagbasi Campus, Kirsehir, Turkey

    Kahraman İpekdal

  12. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

    Stig Larsson

  13. Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

    Zvi Mendel

  14. Scion Research, Rotorua, New Zealand

    Nicolas Meurisse

  15. Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria

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    Nabil Nemer

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    Maria-Rosa Paiva & Helena Santos

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    Juan Pino

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    Alex Protasov

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    Axel Schopf

  22. Division de recherche en entomologie forestière, Institut National de Recherche Forestière, Algiers, Algeria

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Battisti, A. et al. (2015). Natural History of the Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea spp.): New Insights in Relation to Climate Change. In: Roques, A. (eds) Processionary Moths and Climate Change : An Update. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9340-7_2

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