<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Villemant, C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrei-Ruiz, M C</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Life-cycles and biological features of eggs predators of Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera : Lymantriidae) in the Mamora cork oak forest, Morocco</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">allotrophic capacity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dermestidae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">egg predation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">life-cycle</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lymantria dispar</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lymantriidae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morocco</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pyralidae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus suber</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trogossitidae</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1999</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CZECH ACAD SCI, INST ENTOMOLOGY</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BRANISOVSKA 31, CESKE BUDEJOVICE 370 05, CZECH REPUBLIC</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">96</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29-36</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The gypsy moth oophagous predator guild in the Mamora forest is an assemblage of many species whose succession in egg masses enhances the exploitation of this food source. Life history, biological Features and trophic capacities of predator species are described from field observations and laboratory rearing. Extreme diversity of diets, capacity to resist prolonged fasting and extended larval development with extra-instars enable them to survive on the cork oak when gypsy moth egg masses are absent. The 1986-1990 gypsy moth outbreak occurred in a forest part where unhealthy cork oaks are common. by providing abundant shelter for numerous arthropods these trees are beneficial to the oophagous predators which find there various and abundant food sources. This probably explains why egg predator activity in the infested area rapidly increased so that the pest outbreak collapsed.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>