A Field Guide for Ground Checking Southern Pine Beetle Spots
http://everest.ento.vt.edu/%7Esalom/Hndbk558/558.html
This handbook shows how to recognize various stages of SPB attack, how to decide if control is needed, and how to mark buffer strips for control crews.
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Black Turpentine Beetle
http://www.fl-dof.com/Pubs/pests/btb/btb.html
The black turpentine beetle is an insect that lives in the inner bark of pine trees. Removal of the outer bark will reveal a vertical gallery or tunnel up to 18 inches long or a D-shaped to fan-like gallery up to 12 inches across. Generally, its activity h confined to the lower three to eight feet of trees.
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Caution! You May Not Need to Sell All Your Pine Timber
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/forestry_education/insects_and_diseases/insects/ips_bark_beetles/11-22a-99.htm
Anyone who has been out and about in East Texas in the past two months has probably noticed that many scattered pine trees have died. It may not be the drought that has killed the trees, but rather the drought has stressed the trees and made them susceptible to attack by pine engraver beetles.
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Conifer Sawflies
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=240
This publication describes eleven conifer sawflies by their distinctive markings, their hosts, the time of year they are present, and their distribution. Magnefied and to-scale drawings of each are also provided.
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Engraver Beetle (Not Southern Pine Beetle) Activity on the Increase in ...
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/forestry_education/insects_and_diseases/insects/ips_bark_beetles/07-13a-98.html
If the extreme fire danger caused by the 1998 drought isn't causing enough concern, now pine bark beetle activity is beginning to appear.
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Flathead Borers on Hardwoods
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=239
Flatheaded borers are some of the most common of wood borer in the United States. They occur throughout the United States and Canada. There are more than 150 species and varieties of flatheaded borers east of the Mississippi.
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Forest Pests of North America: Integrated Pest Management CD
http://www.bugwood.org/ipmcd/
Three Volume Set - 100 images per Volume in Kodak Photo CD format. One hundred and fifty forest disease and one hundred and fifty forest insect images.
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Identifying the Southern Pine Beetle
http://www.clemson.edu/extfor/pest_management/forlf5.htm
Outbreaks of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, occur periodically in the southern United States, killing millions of dollars worth of pine timber and landscape pines. Good forest management, or cultural care in the case of landscape pines, can minimize the risk of southern pine beelte attacks.
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Insect Defoliators of Missouri Trees: Colony Feeders
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/pests/g07270.htm
All parts of a tree are susceptible to insect attack; there are leaf feeders, sap feeders, and bud, twig, branch and stem borers. The most noticeable type of tree injury is foliage consumption. This article discusses some of the common "colony feeding" pests of Missouri.
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Insect Defoliators of Missouri Trees: Web Producers
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/pests/g07271.htm
Many important species of caterpillars feed on the foliage of shade, ornamental and forest trees. In addition to their feeding damage, some of these defoliators also produce silken webbing, often covering the leaves and branches.
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