. The Ecology of arboreal folivores : a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975. Folivores; Forest ecology; Leaves; Mammals; Mammals. EARLY WET SEASON MAY - AUG 1973 LATE WET SEASON AUG - DEC 1972. E P BAM c m s e f b. p. s s u c a AB f smspbcu LEGUME SPECIES Figure 2. Seasonal variation in leaf predation. Three sets of bar graphs are drawn for the three major seasons of herbivore sampling. Each bar within a season corresponds to the total herbivore load associated with a particular legume s
. The Ecology of arboreal folivores : a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975. Folivores; Forest ecology; Leaves; Mammals; Mammals. EARLY WET SEASON MAY - AUG 1973 LATE WET SEASON AUG - DEC 1972. E P BAM c m s e f b. p. s s u c a AB f smspbcu LEGUME SPECIES Figure 2. Seasonal variation in leaf predation. Three sets of bar graphs are drawn for the three major seasons of herbivore sampling. Each bar within a season corresponds to the total herbivore load associated with a particular legume species. Each bar is broken into sections indicating the relative importance of the major insect herbivore groups. Each bar can be identified by noting the initials of the legume species placed immediately below the horizontal axis. Larvae of 5 Lepidoptera species, each occuring on a single host plant, appeared at the time of the first rains and first foliage flush in 1973. The larvae of Semiothisa were partial exceptions in that they were present on the foliage of A. farnesiana several weeks prior to the first rains. The other 4 species fed en- tirely on the first foliage appearing after the 3 to 4 months of deciduousness. Ephyrodes was an important defoliator of Sesbania during the month of November. Most of the Lepidoptera populations were present on their host plants for a relatively brief period, and the damage which they inflicted was quickly obscured by the continued production of new foliage. Five species of Coleoptera are examined in Figure 1. Two of the species displayed the same extreme host- specificity noted for the important Lepidoptera. One of these, Myochrous, appeared suddenly on the foliage of Sesbania in late November. It was not observed feeding on any other plants in the study area at the time. The leaf-eating curculionid beetle, Promecops, fed exclusively on the foliage of Gliricidia in large numbers on practically all the wet season censuses. It was not re
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