{"id":8500,"date":"2019-03-19T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alertaforestal.com\/procesionaria-la-oruga-mas-deseada\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:43:25","slug":"procesionaria-la-oruga-mas-deseada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alertaforestal.com\/es\/procesionaria-la-oruga-mas-deseada\/","title":{"rendered":"Procesionaria, la oruga m\u00e1s deseada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La procesionaria, es un lepid\u00f3ptero que abunda en los bosques de pinos de Europa del sur y se considera el par\u00e1sito m\u00e1s importante de todos los que afectan a los pinos peninsulares. <strong>Se caracterizan por las bolsas de seda que dejan en los \u00e1rboles y las procesiones que hacen en invierno para enterrarse.<\/strong> Se alimentan de las hojas de los pinos provocando defoliaciones que pueden reducir el crecimiento del \u00e1rbol e incluso causarle la muerte.<\/p>\n<p>A pesar de esto, tambi\u00e9n <strong> son una pieza clave para el ecosistema<\/strong>, puesto que hay una gran cantidad de par\u00e1sitos y depredadores que se alimentan de sus huevos, larvas, cris\u00e1lidas y adultos. <strong>Encontramos la procesionaria en el men\u00fa de p\u00e1jaros, mam\u00edferos, insectos e incluso de hongos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>En verano cuando la polilla pone los huevos en las ac\u00edculas de los pinos, estos huevos son el alimento de <strong>hormigas, avispas y chicharras<\/strong>. Las polillas son tambi\u00e9n una atractiva comida para <strong>murci\u00e9lagos y lirones <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Cuando avanza su ciclo y las orugas nacen, desde agosto (en zonas m\u00e1s fr\u00edas) hasta octubre (en el litoral), pasan a ser la comida de los <strong>p\u00e1jaros insect\u00edvoros<\/strong>. Entre los que encontramos el <strong>carbonero com\u00fan<\/strong> (<em>Parus major<\/em>), el <strong>herrerillo com\u00fan<\/strong> (<em>Cyanistes caeruleus<\/em>), o el <strong>cuco com\u00fan<\/strong> (<em>Cuculus canorus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Entre febrero y el marzo cuando bajan en procesi\u00f3n y se entierran, el <strong>mirlo<\/strong> (<em>Turdus merula<\/em>), la <strong>abubilla<\/strong> (<em>Upupa epops<\/em>) y el <strong>cuervo<\/strong> (<em>Corvus corax<\/em>), localizan y cogen las orugas.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s, <strong>existe un hongo llamado <em>Cordyceps militaris<\/em> que parasita a la procesionaria<\/strong>. Cuando las orugas bajan en procesi\u00f3n, el hongo echa sus esporas que pueden engancharse a los pelos urticantes de la procesionaria. Posteriormente, la humedad y el entierro de las orugas favorece que los hongos germinen sobre la cris\u00e1lida de la oruga y vayan aliment\u00e1ndose de ella poco a poco, hasta que la mariposa que se desarrolla en su interior muere.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9stas representan algunas de las especies para las cuales la procesionaria <strong>es una fuente importante de alimento<\/strong>, as\u00ed que, como vemos <strong>con la procesionaria, no todo es malo<\/strong>. l problema es que el aumento de temperatura causado por el cambio clim\u00e1tico provoca un incremento descontrolado de esta oruga que antes se pod\u00eda regular de forma natural.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4217\" style=\"width: 863px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alertaforestal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Puput_Processionaria_02.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"575\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abubilla intentando sacar la larva de procesionaria de la cris\u00e1lida. Autor: Jos\u00e9 Luis Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La procesionaria, es un lepid\u00f3ptero que abunda en los bosques de pinos de Europa del sur y se considera el par\u00e1sito m\u00e1s importante de todos los que afectan a los pinos peninsulares. Se caracterizan por las bolsas de seda que dejan en los \u00e1rboles y las procesiones que hacen en invierno para enterrarse. 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