A new paper was published by Asha Wijeranthna, Caroline Whitehouse, Dr. Heather Proctor, and Dr. Maya Evenden titled “Testing for trade-offs between flight and reproduction in the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on two pine (Pinaceae) hosts” in the Canadian Entomologist journal.

This paper examines the interaction of host tree and flight treatment on beetle body condition, revealing trade-offs between flight and reproduction in mountain pine beetle as measured at the level of the bolt.

This paper can be found here.