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Induced defences in kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum): do caterpillars avoid previous leaf damage?

Wratten, Stephen D.; Hodge, Simon; Barron, Mandy C. (New Zealand Ecological Society, 2000)

This study examined whether two species of lepidopteran larvae (Cleora scriptaria and Epiphyas postvittana) were deterred from feeding on the leaves of kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) after the leaves had been damaged in ...

Leaf damage does not affect leaf loss or chlorophyll content in the New Zealand pepper tree, kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum)

Hodge, Simon; Keesing, V. F.; Wratten, Stephen D. (New Zealand Ecological Society, 2000)

Kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) is an understorey, forest tree which sustains conspicuous and substantial herbivory from the larvae of a geometrid moth, Cleora scriptaria. This study examined the relationship between leaf ...