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IN his interesting letter in NATURE of Jan. 4 on the parasites of the pine shoot moth, Evetria buoliana Schiff, Mr. C. C. Brooks gives some figures which seem to indicate a correlation between the percentage of parasitism and the size of the emerging moths, and advances the view that the diminution in size, which he has observed in moths from areas in which the parasitism is high, is due to the fact that some of the parasitised larvæ have recovered from the parasitic attack, so that the adult is able to emerge, although it shows the effect of the feeding of the parasites in its unusually small size.
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THOMPSON, W. Entomophagous Parasites and Phagocytes. Nature 125, 167 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125167b0
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