Citation:

DL Wood. 1973. Selection and colonization of ponderosa pine by bark beetles. Pages 101-117. In: HF van Emden (editor). Insect-Plant Relationships. Proceedings of a symposium held in Imperial College 16-17 September 1971. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London: Number 6, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 215 pages.

Keywords: adult plant host selection and colonization behavior, early theories, phases of colonization, dispersal and selection, host plant species discrimination, discrimination of individual hosts, concentration phase, response of the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, D brevicormis, pine trees, Pinus ponderosa, isolation of compounds, field assessment, interaction between compounds, response of associated insects, establishment phase