Forest tent caterpillars
(Malacosoma disstria)

Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Lepidoptera / Lasiocampidae / Malacosoma

Predation Herbivory

American linden
(Tilia americana)

Plantae / Tracheophyta / Magnoliopsida / Malvales / Malvaceae / Tilia

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Keddie, A., and Erlandson, M., 1995. Characterization of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus from the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 65:43-47.

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Sarah E Miller. 12/13/2016. Species associations manually extracted from Onstad, D.W. EDWIP: Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens. Champaign, Illinois: Illinois Natural History Survey, [23/11/2016]. http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/Pathogens/EDWIP.

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millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens

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Keddie, A., and Erlandson, M., 1995. Characterization of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus from the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 65:43-47.

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millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens

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Sarah E Miller. 12/13/2016. Species associations manually extracted from Onstad, D.W. EDWIP: Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens. Champaign, Illinois: Illinois Natural History Survey, [23/11/2016]. http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/Pathogens/EDWIP.

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Hain, F. P.

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Hastings, F. L.

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Butler, L.

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Walsh, S. R. A.

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Hain, F. P.

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Hastings, F. L.

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Sarah E Miller. 12/13/2016. Species associations manually extracted from Onstad, D.W. EDWIP: Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens. Champaign, Illinois: Illinois Natural History Survey, [23/11/2016]. http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/Pathogens/EDWIP.

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Henry, J. E., 1981. Natural and applied control of insects by protozoa. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 26: 49-73.

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Thomson, H.M., 1959. A microsporidian parasite of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hbn. Can. J. Zool. 37: 217-221.

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and Kaupp, W. J. 1977. Application of Nosema disstriae and Pleistophora schubergi against forest tent caterpillar in Ontario, 1977. Report of the Forest Pest Management Institute Sault Sainte Marie No. FMP-X-4, p. 9.

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Butler, L.

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Walsh, S. R. A.

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Hain, F. P.

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Hastings, F. L.

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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McNeil, J. N. and Brooks, W. M., 1974. Interactions of the hyperparasitoids Catolaccus aeneoviridis (Hym.: Pteromalidae) and Spilochalcis side (Hym.: Chalcididae) with the microsporidans Nosema heliothidis and N. campoletidis. Entomophaga 19: 195-204.

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Wilson, G.G., 1984. Pathogenicity of Nosema disstriae, Pleistophora schubergi and Vairimorpha necatrix (Microsporidia) to larvae of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. Z. Parasitenkd. 70: 763-

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Smirnoff, W.A., 1975. Histological studies on the development of the microsporidian Thelohania pristiphorae in larvae of Malacosoma disstria and Malacosoma americanum. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 26: 410-403.

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millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens

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Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2

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Kaya, H.K., 1973. Pathogenicity of Pleistophora schubergi to larvae of the Orange-striped oakworm and other Lepidopterous insects. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 22: 356-358.

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and Kaupp, W. J. 1977. Application of Nosema disstriae and Pleistophora schubergi against forest tent caterpillar in Ontario, 1977. Report of the Forest Pest Management Institute Sault Sainte Marie No. FMP-X-4, p. 9.

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millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens

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Kaya, H.K., 1973. Pathogenicity of Pleistophora schubergi to larvae of the Orange-striped oakworm and other Lepidopterous insects. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 22: 356-358.

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millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens

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Hajek, A. E.

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Walsh, S. R. A.

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Silver, J. C.

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Hastings, F. L.

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Odell, T. M.

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