Fig 1.
Female of Sericinus montelus.
Fig 2.
Male of Sericinus montelus.
Fig 3.
Xiaolongshan Forest and the distribution of Sericinusmontelus.
Green: forest, red dots: site of Sericinusmontelus. ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop, (Version):10.2.1. URL link: http://www.esri.com.
Fig 4.
Contour map and geographic setting of habitat patches of Sericinus montelus in Gaoqiao village.
Blue: suitable habitat patches, Green: forest. Light yellow: agricultural area. ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop, (Version:10.2.1); URL link: http://www.esri.com.
Table 1.
Life history of Sericinus montelus.
Time: 2006–2007 Place: Gaoqiao Forestry Farm.
Fig 5.
Eggs of Sericinus montelus.
Fig 6.
Mature larva of Sericinus montelus.
Table 2.
Stage-specific life table of the three generations of Sericinus montelus in 2006, Gaoqiao village.
Table 3.
Time-specific life table (non-continuous; i.e. each stage is regarded as a new starting point) of three generations of Sericinus montelus in 2007 in Gaoqiao Village.
Fig 7.
Key factor analysis from life table data of Sericinus montelus.
K1: natural enemies, K2: hatching/eclosion failure, K3: human activity, K4: pathogens and insolation, K5: death in pupation. x-axis: 1:Egg stage of first generation, 2. First 3 larval instars of first generation, 3: 4th and 5th larval instar of first generation, 4. Egg stage of second generation, 5. First 3 larval instars of second generation, 6. 4th and 5th larval instar of second generation, 7. Egg stage of third generation, 8. First 3 larval instars of third generation.
Table 4.
Comparison of egg and larval mortalities (in %) averaged across 6 generations (Gaoqiao Village).
Table 5.
Average mortality of eggs and larvae in different generations (%).
Fig 8.
Stage-wise Survival curve of Sericinus montelus.
Table 6.
Distribution of host plants and larvae of Sericinus montelus on agricultural land (Aug. 2005; Gaoqiao Forestry Farm).