Volume 41, Number 2,
June 1995:
The Yucca Plant and
the Yucca Moth

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- mutualism
- coevolution
- a "transparent" system
- yucca moth pollination
- male and female yucca moths
- mark and recapture
- C.V. Riley
- the yucca plant
- yucca flowers
- yucca products
- yucca pods and larval moths
- bailing out of the pods
- old pods
- what we do not know
- what prevents a cheater?
- how did the yucca and yucca moth relationship evolve?
- solving problems
- for additional information

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The Yucca Plant and the Yucca Moth
by Marylee Ramsay and John Richard Schrock

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Aker, C. L. 1982. Spatial and Temporal Dispersion Patterns of Pollinators and Their Relationship to the Flowering Strategy of Yucca whipplei (Agavaceae). Oecologia 54: 243-252.

Aker, C. L. and D. Udovic. 1981. Oviposition and Pollination Behavior of the Yucca Moth,Tegeticula maculata, (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) and its Relation to the Reproductive Biology of Yucca whipplei (Agavaceae). Oecologia 49: 96-101.

Baker, G. H. 1986. Yuccas and Yucca Moths--A Historical Commentary. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden. 73: 556-564.

Johnson, R. 1988. The Reproductive Cost to the Yucca Plant (Yucca filamentosa L.) in its Mutualistic Relationship With the Yucca Moth (Tegeticula yuccasella Riley). Journal of Tennessee Academy of Science 63: 77-78.

Kingsolver, Robert W. 1984. Population Biology of a Mutualistic Association: Yucca glauca and Tegeticula yuccasella. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Miles, N. J. 1983. Variation and Host Specificity in the Yucca moth, Tegeticula yuccasella (Incurvariidae): a Morphometric Approach. Journal of Lepidopterists Society 37: 207-216.

Ramsay, Marylee Ann. 1994. Preliminary Investigations Into Aspects of the Population Biology of the Yucca Moth, Tegeticula yuccasella, and the Plant Yucca filamentosa. M.S. Thesis, Emporia State University, 35 pages.

Schrock, J. R. and G. Leisman. 1987. Wildflower in the Spotlight: Yucca or Soapweed, Yucca glauca. Kansas Wildflower Society Newsletter 9(1): 5-11.