Peter C. McCarthy

TL;DR: It is shown that a complex web of interactions between insect herbivores and their natural enemies displays significant architectural flexibility over a large fluctuation in the natural abundance of the major herbivore, the spruce budworm, and it is found that this food-web flexibility tends to be greater in heterogeneous than in homogeneous forest plots.

TL;DR: This project is the first to barcode a food web in which interactions have already been well-documented and described in space, time and abundance and is poised to be a system in which field-based methods permit the identification capacity required by forestry scientists.

TL;DR: A high level of correlation between the studied phase of the outbreak cycle and annual variations in the survivorship over the postdiapause period is found, suggesting that post diapause survivorship was the chief determinant of the cycle.

TL;DR: This paper reported 51 new host records of primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids from Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens) collected in New Brunswick, Canada, as well as those listed in various catalogs.

TL;DR: In populations of both sexes of spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana moths, collected live above the forest canopy, within the tree crown, and in drop trays (dead moths), were examined over a 5‐year period in New Brunswick, Canada.