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New Pest Response Guidelines - aphis - US Department of Agriculture

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<strong>Pest</strong> Information<br />

Dispersal<br />

Generally, SaSM needs more than one year to complete a generation, and<br />

spends one or two winters in overwintering as a larva (Fukuyama, 1980).<br />

Although the density increases dramatically with outbreak levels, which can be<br />

greater than 1,000 individuals per tree (Fukuyama, 1980), population levels are<br />

normally do not exceed between 1 and 50 larvae per tree Maeto, 1991).<br />

Outbreak years typically follow summers with abnormally high mean<br />

temperatures, falling within or just after periods in which 3-year average<br />

temperatures <strong>of</strong> August or September were about 1°C higher than normal<br />

(Maeto, 1991).<br />

Adults <strong>of</strong> all Dendrolimus spp. can fly several kilometers, although females<br />

with eggs may not fly as far (Ciesla, 2001). Air currents may affect adult flight<br />

and early instar larvae are capable <strong>of</strong> balloon flight using silk threads (Speight<br />

and Wylie, 2001).<br />

2-36 Dendrolimus Pine Moths 12/2012-01

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