Wade Bowers

Refereed Journal Publications

Bowers, W.W., J.H. Borden and A.G. Raske. 1996. Bionomics of the four-eyed spruce bark beetle, Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby) (Col., Scolytidae) in Newfoundland I. Emergence and flight patterns. Journal of Applied Entomology, 120: 385-390.

Bowers, W.W., J.H. Borden and A.G. Raske. 1996. Bionomics of the four-eyed spruce bark beetle, Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby) (Col., Scolytidae) in Newfoundland II. Host colonization sequence. Journal of Applied Entomology, 120: 449-461.

Bowers, W.W., J.H. Borden and A. Raske. 1996. Incidence and impact of Polygraphus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Newfoundland. Forest Ecology and Management, 89: 173-187.

Bowers, W. W., S. E. Franklin, J. Hudak, G. McDermid. 1994. Forest structural damage analysis using semivariance. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 20(1): 28-36.

Bowers, W.W. and J.H. Borden. 1992. Attraction of Lasconotus intricatus Kraus. (Coleoptera: Colydiidae) to the aggregation pheromone of the four-eyed spruce bark beetle, Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Can Entomol. 124:1-5.

Bowers, W.W., G. Gries, J.H. Borden and H.D. Pierce Jr. 1991. 3 methyl 3 buten 1 ol: An aggregation pheromone of the four eyed spruce beetle, Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 17:1989-2002.

Bowers, W.W. and J.H. Borden. 1990. Evidence for a male produced aggregation pheromone in the four eyed spruce bark beetle, Polygraphus rufipennis (Kirby) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie 110:292-299.

Delisle, J., J.W. West and W.W. Bowers. 1998. The relative performance of pheromone and light traps in monitoring the season activity of both sexes of the eastern hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 89: 87-98.

Franklin, S.E. and W. W. Bowers and G. Ghitter. 1995. Discrimination of adelgid-damage on single balsam fir trees with aerial remote sensing data. International Journal of Remote Sensing Vol. 16 (15), 2779-2794.

Gries, G., J. Li, R. Gries, W. W. Bowers, R. J. West, P. D. C. Wimalaratne, G. Khaskin, G. C. S. King and K. N. Slessor. 1994. (E)-11,13-tetradecadienal: major sex pheromone component of the eastern blackheaded budworm, Acleris variana (Fern.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 20(1): 1- 8.

Gries, G., R. Gries, S.H. Krannitz, Jianxiong Li, G.G.S. King, K.N. Slessor, J.H. Borden, W.W. Bowers, R.J. West and E.W. Underhill. 1993. Sex pheromone of the western hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria lububrosa (Hulst) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19:1009-1019.

Gries, G., R. Gries, J.H. Borden, J. Li, K.N. Slessor, G.G.S. King, W.W. Bowers, R.J. West and E.W. Underhill. 1991. 5,11-dimethylheptadecane and 2,5-dimethylheptadecane:sex pheromone components of the geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria. Naturwissenschaften 78:315-317.

Gries, G., W.W. Bowers, R. Gries, M. Noble and J.H. Borden. 1990. Pheromone production by the pine engraver Ips pini following flight and starvation. Journal of Insect Physiology 36(11):819-824.

Jianxiong, Li, R. Gries, G. Gries, K.N. Slessor, G.G.S. King, W.W. Bowers, R.J. West. 1993. Chirality of 5,11-dimethylheptadecane, the major sex pheromone component of the hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19: 1057-1062.

West, R.J. and W.W. Bowers. 1994. Factors affecting calling behavior by Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), under field conditions. Environ. Entomol. 23(1): 122-129.



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