Temporal and Spatial Foraging Behavior of the Larvae of the Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea
During their first three larval stadia, caterpillars of Hyphantria cunea (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) are patch-restricted foragers, confining their activity to a web-nest they construct in the branches of the host tree.Activity recordings of eight field colonies made over 46 colony-days showed that the later instars become central place foragers, leav