Conservation Status
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Not of concern but rare in Alberta.
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Cyclicity
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Late April to early June (Freeman 1958).
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Distribution
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From British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south in the east to Florida, in Alberta it is sporadically encountered in the boreal.
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General Description
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"The forewing is shiny light yellow with some brown reticulation. Broad brown bands that slant towards the anal angle dominate the wing in the basal, median, and upper postmedian areas. The head and thorax are brown while the abdomen and hindwings are medium grey.
The larva is dull yellow with slightly darker brownish yellow thoracic shield and head."
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Habitat
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Coniferous and mixed forest.
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Life Cycle
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The solitary larva starts as a needle miner in early instars (MacKay 1962). In later instars they live inside a tube made form several needles tied together, gradually feeding on the end of it. As tubes get short from larval feeding, they are abandoned to construct newer ones which are also where pupation occurs (Forbes 1923).
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Trophic Strategy
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The larva is found most commonly on White Pine (Pinus strobus) in eastern Canada, it is rarer in the west on other species of pine.
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Argyrotaenia pinatubana
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Argyrotaenia pinatubana, the pine tube moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in eastern North America, from Canada south to Florida and west to Wisconsin.[3]
The wingspan is 12–17 mm.[4] The forewings are reddish-orange with two off-white oblique lines. The hindwings are smoky coloured. There are two generations per each year.
The larvae mainly feed on Pinus strobus. They are pale green larvae and can reach a length of about 12 mm. Young larvae spin silk and tie five to twenty pine needles together to form a tube. The larvae live within this tube. When the tube walls have been mostly eaten down, the larvae will abandon their tubes and begin constructing new ones. The species overwinters in the pupal stage within the tube.
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Argyrotaenia pinatubana: Brief Summary
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Argyrotaenia pinatubana, the pine tube moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in eastern North America, from Canada south to Florida and west to Wisconsin.
Infestation
The wingspan is 12–17 mm. The forewings are reddish-orange with two off-white oblique lines. The hindwings are smoky coloured. There are two generations per each year.
The larvae mainly feed on Pinus strobus. They are pale green larvae and can reach a length of about 12 mm. Young larvae spin silk and tie five to twenty pine needles together to form a tube. The larvae live within this tube. When the tube walls have been mostly eaten down, the larvae will abandon their tubes and begin constructing new ones. The species overwinters in the pupal stage within the tube.
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