forest pests

Introduced forest pests are also a huge problem.

In their native habitat, all Amylostereum species have a minor importance as forest pests.

Many species of arthropods, principally insects but also mites, are agricultural and forest pests.

International regulations and wood packaging standards exist to control the spread of forest pests and timber diseases.

It has also been introduced to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Brazil to help control horntail forest pests.

Larvae feed on lichens as well as herbaceous and woody plants , and some species are forest pests.

Larvae are often gregarious, and sometimes there can be major outbreaks, thus these wasps can be major forest pests at times.

Most collections from these states were associated with walnut die-offs, although the beetle has also been incidentally collected in Lindgren funnel traps used for survey of other forest pests.

This program area is concerned with protection of the state's forestlands from wildfire, as well as, the detection, evaluation, and control of forest pests that include insects, diseases, and invasive plants.

Dr. Mark S. McClure, who has been studying the hemlock woolly adelgid for many years, reported that the aphidlike insect has become one of the most destructive forest pests in the past six years.

Forest Research in Wales, which is part of the Forestry Commission, is leading a project in Aberystwyth called IMPACT - integrated management of forest pests addressing climate trends.

Now, a team of Norwegian scientists has raised the intriguing possibility that, in some cases at least, cyclic outbreaks of such forest pests may be linked to sunspot activity and the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth's surface.

Examples of emerging forest pests and diseases of interest to Nebraska are Emerald Ash Borer, Thousand cankers disease of Black Walnut, Pine wilt, Asian Longhorned Beetle, and Mountain Pine Beetle.

Because the files contain a vast amount of information on relationships between forest pests and their parasites, predators, and other associated insects, they have served as a source of information to evaluate the potential for biological control through introductions/redistributions of natural enemies or manipulation of habitats.