Flight studies of pasture webworms

Abstract

Oil-bath trap records over a period of 4 years on the Northern Tablelands of Queensland together with numerous field collection records showed that flights of Oncopera brachyphylla Turn. occurred in the period from February to early April, with a peak close to the beginning of March, and that flights of Oncopera mitocera (Turn.) occurred in the period from early March to early May, with a peak close to the beginning of April.