BURPS estimates the development stage of spruce budworm at any date between 2008-01-01 and today, and makes a prediction for the next 6 days.
Select the date, the sex and the development indicator: Average Instar from 2 for overwintering 2nd larval stage (L2o) to 10 for the next generation egg, or nominal development stage. The map will update automatically. Zoom in and out and grab to move around. Click to retrieve the estimate for this location.
The phenology models used in this application are based on a modified version of Régnière, St-Amant and Duval (2012) applied to NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis sub-daily data for 2008-2015 and GDPS Environment Canada's Global Deterministic Prediction System since 2016.
Created by Jean-Noël Candau (Jean-Noel.Candau at Canada.ca) with R, Python and Shiny.