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This complex of pest species includes tortricid leafrollers, noctuid fruitworms and cutworms, and gracillarid leafminers.
But if there are no bats around, noctuid moths eventually lose this startle response.
The best documented temporal shift in selection is the industrial melanism of noctuid and geometrid moths in England and Europe.
In Litomatix truncatellus, which is parasitic on the larvae of the noctuid moth Plusia gamma, about 1,000 embryos develop from one egg.
Aspects of the noctuid tympanic nerve response having significance in the avoidance of bats.
Late-stage immature and adult female bolas spiders in the genus Mastophora are known to produce some of the same components of the sex-attractant pheromone produced by females of some noctuid moths.
There are previous reports of PAA being attractive to other insects, including several noctuid moths and sphecoid and scoliodid wasps.
A typical noctuid pupa, shiny reddish-brown in colour, about 16 mm long, and with two distinct terminal cremaster spines, and normally not identifiable to species.
Trapping noctuid moths with synthetic floral volatile lures.
Felton GW, Donato K, Del Vecchio RJ, Duffey SS, Activation of plant foliar oxidases by insect feeding reduces nutritive quality of foliage for noctuid herbivores.
Noctuid, owlet, and cutworm moths are also stout-bodied. Their fore wings are narrow, and their hind wings are fan-shaped.
Some of the atlas moths and a Noctuid moth have wingspans over 300 mm.
Examples from Classical Literature
On the whole, members of this family are more available to the day collector than are those of the noctuid.
For example, the caterpillars of some species of Xanthia and other noctuid moths feed at first upon willow-catkins.
Mller mentions a most extraordinary fact of one of the noctuid, which when disclosed from the pupa retained the head of the larva.
Females of the noctuid moth Haden a Mauris pollinate flowers of the host plant Silene latifolia and then lay one egg per ovary.
For instance Plotheia frontalis, a Noctuid which often abounds in Ceylon, shows an equally bewildering wealth of forms.
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