Document Type
Peer-Review Article
Abstract
Excerpt: Although Dasymutilla nigripes (Fabricius) is one of the more common Michigan velvet ant species, little is known about its life cycle. In his summary of mutillid life cycles, Michel (1928) indicated that mutillids of northern latitudes probably overwinter in the prepupal stage within the subterranean cells of their hymenopterous hosts. Bohart and McSwain (1939) cited prepupal overwintering as normal for Dasymutilla sackenii (Cresson) in California. However, Potts and Smith (1944), also working in California, collected overwintering adult female Dasymutilla aureola pacifica (Cresson).
Recommended Citation
Evans, David A. and Miller, Bruce R.
2017.
"A Note on Adult Overwintering of Dasymutilla Nigripes in Michigan (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae),"
The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 2
(2)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.1103
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol2/iss2/5