Scales and associated parasitoids on hemlock trees in Japan: implications for classical biological control of elongate hemlock scale (<i>Fiorinia externa</i>) in the United States

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 11:32 AM

Pacific, Salon 6-7 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Kristopher J Abell , Plant, Soil, and Insect Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Roy Van Driesche , Plant, Soil, and Insect Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Shigehiko Shiyake , Entomology, Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Japan

Naoto Kamata , Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chichibu, Japan

Mineaki Aizawa , Department of Forest Science, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan

Ashley Lamb , Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Suzanne Lyon , Plant, Soil, and Insect Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Scales and associated parasitoids on hemlock trees in Japan: implications for classical biological control of elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa) in the United States