Because of its peculiar biology, its negative impacts on forestry, and
its urticating larvae affecting human and animal health, pine
processionary moth has largely been studied in many European countries
during the last century. However, knowledge remained scattered and no
synthesis has ever been published. Since the IPCC retained the moth as
one of the two insect indicators of climate change because of its
expansion with warming up, filling this gap became increasingly
important. Led by INRA, this book associates 101 authors from 22
countries of Europe, Minor Asia and North Africa, combining all the
concerned research fields (entomology, ecology, genetics, mathematical
modelling, medical and veterinary science, pest management) in a
multidisciplinary approach to understand and model the processes
underlying past, present and future moth expansion and to propose
adapted management methods. Besides, the major biological patterns of
the related processionary species are also detailed.