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The western tent caterpillar: Qualitative differences and the action of natural enemies

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  1. Entomological Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Syun’iti Iwao

  2. Department of Zoology, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    W. G. Wellington

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From July, 1970, at the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology and the Department of Plant Science, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., Canada.

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Iwao, S., Wellington, W.G. The western tent caterpillar: Qualitative differences and the action of natural enemies. Res Popul Ecol 12, 81–99 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02511084

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