@book {1865,
	title = {The Biology of Lonchaea Corticis Taylor (Diptere: Lonchaeidae): A Predator of the Sitka Spruce Weevil in Western Washington},
	year = {1977},
	publisher = {University of Washington},
	organization = {University of Washington},
	author = {Loren Bennett Ford}
}
@article {1864,
	title = {Laboratory Assessment of Predation by Lonchaea corticis (Diptera: Lonchaeidae) on Pissodes strobi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)},
	journal = {Environmental Entomology},
	volume = {18},
	year = {1989},
	pages = {1011 - 1014},
	abstract = {Larvae of Lonchaea corticis Taylor killed and consumed pupae and to a lesser extent prepupal larvae of Pissodes strobi (Peck) at temperatures ranging from 5 to l4{\textdegree}C during a 3-wk experiment in glass vials that were monitored weekly. Marginal predation of pupae but not prepupal larvae was observed at O{\textdegree}c. In simulated pupal cells of P. strobi stored outdoors in a Victoria, British Columbia, winter, L. corticis larvae killed and consumed pupae and prepupal larvae of P. strobi in a 3-wk experiment that left most cells devoid of obvious prey remains. Tests in glass vials in March with L. corticis larvae collected during March and during the previous August showed that L. corticis larvae remain predacious at the end of winter. When the insects were left in situ in severed leaders stored outdoors in a Victoria, British Columbia, winter, the proportion of pupal cells with live P. strobi decreased significantly and the proportion of pupal cells emptied without insect emergence increased significantly; the numbers of L. corticis larvae and total P. strobi pupal cells did not change significantly. These experiments show that P. strobi pupae and prepupal larvae can be vulnerable prey for L. corticis larvae and that predation may be common in the winter conditions of coastal British Columbia.},
	author = {HULME, MICHAEL A}
}
@article {1862,
	title = {The predatory behavior of Lonchaea corticis Taylor on the white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi Peck, in Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr., was studied by temporal sampling and dissection of terminal leaders, and by laboratory experiments. L. cort},
	journal = {BioControl},
	volume = {30},
	year = {1985},
	pages = {415 - 418},
	abstract = {Insects associated with the Sitka spruce weevil,Pissodes strobi (Peck), on Sitka spruce,Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. were sampled at 9 locations in British Columbia. Fourteen species of hymenoptera, 3 diptera, and 1 psocopteran were found associated with the weevil. Samples were dominated by the lonchaeid predator,Lonchaea corticis Taylor, and to a lesser extent by the braconid parasitoid,Allodorus crassigaster (Prov.).
}
}
@article {1861,
	title = {Predation by Lonchaea corticis (Diptera: Lonchaeidae) on the white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)},
	journal = {Canadian Entomologist},
	volume = {112},
	year = {1980},
	pages = {1259 - 1270},
	abstract = {The predatory behavior of Lonchaea corticis Taylor on the white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi Peck, in Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr., was studied by temporal sampling and dissection of terminal leaders, and by laboratory experiments. L. corticis oviposition occurred when mining P. strobi larvae were consolidating the feeding ring, an event that segregates the weevil larvae into healthy front-feeders and weak, starving "followers." The number of L. corticis within a Sitka spruce terminal was highly correlated with the number of weak and dying P. strobi larvae, but not with healthy larvae.
L. corticis larvae experimentally deprived of dead P. strobi larvae, behaved as an effective predator, consuming both weak P. strobi larvae and healthy pupae, but apparently not healthy larvae. The transition of L. corticis from second to third instar appeared to occur only after sufficient weevils had been consumed. When an excess of prey was present, L. corticis larvae consumed a mean of 2.9 P. strobi pupae over their entire life cycle. In choice experiments, L. corticis larvae searched for and located mining P. strobi larvae, and fed preferentially on P. strobi pupae rather than granary weevil pupae, Sitophilus granarius L. Under certain circumstances, L. corticis could be an important regulatory agent of P. strobi populations.},
	author = {Alfaro, R.I and Borden, J.H}
}
@article {1420,
	title = {Description of the immature stages of Lonchaea corticis, with notes on its role as a predator of the white pine weevil Pissodes strobi},
	journal = {Annals of the Entomological Society of America },
	volume = {64},
	year = {1971},
	pages = {1121 - 1226},
	author = {Harman, D.M. and Wallace, J.B}
}
