Oregon Pine White Outbreak featured on PBS show.....

[Mike Quinn]

Nice piece on the current massive butterfly outbreak going on in the
Pacific Northwest.

One thing missing was a mention that all the larvae drop a load of frass,
so to speak...

Mike Quinn, Austin
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From: James, David G <david_james at wsu.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Subject: Oregon Pine White Outbreak featured on PBS show.....
To: "leps-l at lists.yale.edu" <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>


 The recent outbreak of Pine Whites (Neophasia menapia) in central Oregon
was featured on 'Oregon Wild' which aired on PBS in the PNW last night.****

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You can catch it online here : http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg****

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Some cool footage shown including ponds white with , well, whites… also
'blizzard' shots and helicopter windshields smeared with butterflies…..****

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It was only a few years ago that Dave Nunnallee and I struggled to find
wild immature stages of N. menapia for our book "Life Histories of Cascadia
Butterflies"****

Ironically (to me anyway), the PBS program found them everywhere and even
suggested that substantial damage had been caused to pines by Pine White
caterpillars.****

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Dr David G James****

Associate Professor of Entomology,****

Washington State University,****

Prosser, Washington 99350****

USA****

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