D0620 Timing of ambrosia beetle attack activity monitored by ethanol-injected trees

Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Grand Exhibit Hall (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Michael E. Reding , Horticultural Insects Research Lab, USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH
Christopher Ranger , Horticultural Insects Research Lab, USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH
Jason B. Oliver , College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences, Tennessee State University, McMinnville, TN
Peter Schultz , Hampton Roads Agricricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia Beach, VA
Timing of attacks on trees by Xylosandrus germanus were monitored to provide ornamental nursery growers with information to help them better time their control treatments. Containerized trees injected with ethanol were deployed in 4 ornamental nurseries in Ohio. Attacks were monitored weekly.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.49368