ABSTRACT. 1. Significantly more eggs were laid by adult female pine beauty moths ( Panolis flammea (D&S)) on previously undefoliated lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Douglas) saplings than on those which had been partially defoliated the year before. 2. The larval weights, mean relative growth rates and survival rates of P.flammea were lower on defoliated trees than on undefoliated trees. 3. Marked and significant differences between the monoterpene profiles of the shoot cortical oleoresin of defoliated and undefoliated trees were linked to oviposition preferences in P.flammea. 4. Differences occurred between the levels of soluble tannins in previously defoliated and undefoliated trees. 5. The results are discussed in relation to earlier work on insect‐induced changes in plants, and the significance of inter‐provenance differences in lodgepole pine response is assessed.
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