Winter kill: Implications of the one-two punch of the polar vortex and siberian express on hemlock woolly adelgid in the south

Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Exhibit Hall BC (Convention Center)
Gregory J. Wiggins , Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Jerome F. Grant , Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
J. Patrick Parkman , Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
R. Jesse Webster , Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, Gatlinburg, TN
Elizabeth P. Benton , Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
J. Rusty Rhea , Forest Health Protection, USDA, Forest Service, Asheville, NC
Paris L. Lambdin , Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
The past two consecutive winters (2014 and 2015) have seen record low temperatures in many areas of the eastern U.S., including the southern Appalachians. These low winter temperatures have dramatically decreased population numbers of the sistens generation of hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae, in some areas. The potential impacts of these decreases in sistens HWA and possible impacts of temperature and low prey populations to biological control agents released against HWA will be discussed.
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