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High consumption rate by Neodiprion sertifer?—A comment on a paper by Larsson and Tenow

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In a recently published food utilization study of larvae of the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Larsson and Tenow, Oecologia (Berl) 43 (1979) 157–172), it was concluded that a high consumption rate was part of a suite of presumed adaptations exhibited by these larvae for feeding on a food with a low nitrogen content. In this note it is shown that larvae of N. sertifer exhibit a relative consumption rate which is comparable to that of other sawflies and intermediate in comparison to other herbivorous insects.

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    Frank Slansky Jr.

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    Frank Slansky Jr.

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Slansky, F. High consumption rate by Neodiprion sertifer?—A comment on a paper by Larsson and Tenow. Oecologia 46, 133–134 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00346978

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