The climate change may indirectly affects the forest ecosystems through the activity …

• Abstract
• Climate change and insect distribution
• Climate change and host-insect interactions
• Box 1 - The pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa
• Box 2 - The spruce webspinning sawfly Cephalcia arvensis
• Box 3 - The larch bud moth Zeiraphera diniana
• Acknowledgements
• References

This work has been supported by the EU 5^th FP QLK5-CT-2002-00852 project “Promoth” (Global change and pine processionary moth: a new challenge for integrated pest management) and by the project “Forest Monitoring” of Regione del Veneto. I thank Michael Stastny and Edoardo Petrucco Toffolo for the useful discussions and for the help in screening the literature.