Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
Pieris rapae L., an invasive crop pest, may have recently begun using Alliaria petiolata Bieb. (Cavara & Grande), a European invasive biennial. We investigated how P. rapae uses forest habitats for nectar and oviposition and examined larval performance on A. petiolata in the field and laboratory. Being known primarily to occupy open habitats, we found that P. rapae regularly uses forest edge habitats, most surveyed A. petiolata plants had P. rapae damage, and P. rapae successfully used both stages of A. petiolata for larval development.
Repository Citation
Davis, S. L.,
& Cipollini, D.
(2016). Evidence for Use of Alliaria petiolata in North America by the European Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae. Journal of Entomology, 2016.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/biology/441
DOI
10.1155/2016/9671506
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Comments
Copyright © 2016 Sam L. Davis and Don Cipollini. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.