Pine Sawyers
They are secondary infesters whose main damage is disfiguring wood by larval boring and tunneling in felled trees and usable trees which are weakened or dying from other causes. Plant parts attacked trunk. Damaging stage - larvae. The adults are ... [... more]
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Imported Willow Leaf Beetle
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting) Most willows (primarily on black and white willow; feeds but not severely on weeping willow). The larvae skeletonize the underside of the leaves in feeding. The adults chew holes in ... [... more]
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Southern Pine Beetle
The southern pine beetle (SPB) occurs in the southern and southeastern United States, extending as far west as Arizona and as far south as Central America. The northern range extends from southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, west to southern ... [... more]
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Redheaded Ash Borer
All dying or recently killed hardwoods, especially oak, ash, hickory, and hackberry. Young larvae feed under the bark but later enter the heart and sap wood and completely destroy it. Plant parts attacked: trunk and main limbs. Damaging stages: ... [... more]
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Pales Weevil
Pales weevil feeds on all pines within its range. It will also feed, although to a lesser extent, on Douglas-fir, fir, hemlock, juniper, larch, northern white-cedar, and spruce. During the months of June through August look for the following ... [... more]
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Tulip Tree Leaf Miner (Sassafras Weevil)
Rice-shaped holes, about 1/16" result from adult feeding. Mines, usually two per leaf are formed by larval feeding. If they are both on the same side of midrib, one is extensive, and the other dwarfed. If on opposite side of midrib, both mines ... [... more]
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Locust Borer
Larvae tunnel in trunk and larger branches of live trees. Most damaging on younger trees during dry seasons. They attack healthy young trees boring into the heart and sapwood of stems and branches. Young larvae feeding in the spring cause ... [... more]
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Locust Leafminer
Black locust is the preferred host for the larval stage but the adults can be found feeding on apple, oak, birch, beech, elm, cherry, and hawthorn. Locust leafminers are known to feed on soybeans as both larvae and adults when populations are ... [... more]
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Twig Girdler/Twig Pruner
Pecan, hickory, and oak are the most commonly attacked, but persimmon, elm, poplar, gum, basswood, honey-locust, dogwood, and some fruit trees can be damaged as well. These beetles cause very conspicuous damage in late summer. The leaves on large ... [... more]
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Japanese Weevil
Long list of hosts, but especially on cherry laurel, broadleaved evergreens, pyracantha, privet, barberry, euonymus, very many others. Foliage is more or less chewed beginning as marginal notches increasing to large rounded sections of the leaves ... [... more]
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Dogwood Twig Borer
The larvae feed down the center of the branch making a long series of closely placed round holes for the exudation of frass. Periodically the larvae cut off portions of the twig from within and continues feeding on the green wood. Larvae tunnel ... [... more]
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Pine Shoot Beetle
Pine shoot beetles are dark brown. The larvae have a dark brown head and creamy white body. Pine shoot beetles are in the same family as bark beetles and resemble bark beetles in appearance with their cylindrical shape. The pine shoot beetle is ... [... more]
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