(Zool.)

any one of several species of small tortricid moths of the genus Retinia, whose larvæ burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often doing great damage.

See also: Pine

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Miller and Wagner (1984) found that pupae of the Pandora Moth Coloradia pandora pandora (Saturniidae), in a pine forest in Arizona, tended to occur in greater numbers where fuel loads were lighter on the ground and the canopy was more open.

Sleeping aggregations of bees in relation to the risk of fire at their roosting sites in a forested, suburban landscape in eastern Australia

Most dendroentomological research has focused on the loss of photosynthetic tissue (i.e., buds and leaves) and tree growth caused by defoliating insects such as western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis) (Swetnam et al., 1985; Swetnam and Lynch, 1993; Ryerson et al., 2003), tussock moth (Orgyia sp.) (Mason et al., 1997) and pandora moth (Coloradia pandora) (Speer et al., 2001; Pohl et al., 2006).

The effect of periodical cicadas on growth of five tree species in Midwestern deciduous forests

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