scholarly journals Infestation of Norway spruce seedlings by Cryphalus asperatus: New threat for planting of forests?

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
Tomáš Fiala ◽  
Jaroslav Holuša
Keyword(s):  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Ips Typographus ◽  
Forest Nursery ◽  
Local Increase ◽  
Local Abundance

Cryphalus asperatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) is described as an exceptional but important secondary pest of Norway spruce seedlings. Of the 10 000 seedlings transported to one location in the Ore Mountains, Central Europe in 2020, in total 1 500 seedlings were killed by C. asperatus. The infestation and death of seedlings probably resulted in part from the substantial local increase in the local abundance of C. asperatus after the sanitation felling of many Ips typographus-infested and otherwise damaged trees; the felled trees provided many branches suitable for C. asperatus feeding. In addition, the seedlings were probably stressed by the multi-hour transportation (probably drought) from the forest nursery.

scholarly journals Effect of insecticide-treated trap logs and lure traps for Ips typographus(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) management on nontarget arthropods catching in Norway spruce stands

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lubojacký ◽  
J. Holuša
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Ips Typographus ◽  
Flight Activity ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
Pheromone Traps ◽  
Nontarget Organisms ◽  
Thanasimus Formicarius ◽  
Spruce Stands

The numbers of nontarget arthropods captured by Theysohn pheromone traps (TPTs) and insecticide-treated tripod trap logs (TRIPODs) were compared; both kinds of traps were baited with pheromone lures Pheagr IT for Ips typographus. In 2010, 15 TPTs and 15 TRIPODs were deployed (with a 10-m spacing) in a forest in the northeastern Czech Republic. The TPTs and TRIPODs were inspected weekly during the entire period of I. typographus flight activity (30 April–1 October). The TRIPODs were sprayed with Vaztak 10 SC insecticide every 7 weeks; at each spraying, the pheromone evaporators were renewed. Higher numbers of entomophagous arthropods, including the predacious beetles Thanasimus formicarius and T. femoralis, were captured by the TRIPODs than by the TPTs. The number of Thanasimus spp. captured by TRIPODs was especially high at the end of April. The efficacy of TRIPODs for the control of I. typographus could be maintained while the kill of nontarget organisms could be reduced by deploying the evaporators 1 week later (in early May rather than in late April) in relation to the recommended date of dispenser installation.  

scholarly journals Merocoenoses of cambioxylophagous insect fauna of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) with focus on bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and types of tree damage in different gradation conditions

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 474-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kula ◽  
W. Ząbecki
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Bark Beetles ◽  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Ips Typographus ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Spruce Bark ◽  
Standing Trees ◽  
Spruce Stands ◽  
Endemic Population

Research on merocoenoses of cambioxylophagous insect fauna of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) was carried out in spruce stands of different age in the area with an endemic population (Moravian-Silesian Beskids, Czech Republic) and in the area with an epidemic population (Beskid Żywiecki, Poland) of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle Ips typographus (L.). The structure of merocoenoses was characterized separately for standing trees attacked by bark beetles, trees struck by lightning, trees affected by fungal pathogens and wind-felling and trees in the form of snags and fragments. The occurrence of cambioxylophagous insects, mostly bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), was compared between the study areas with emphasis on dominant facultative primary bark beetles and types of damage to spruce trees.  

Growth trends and climate responses of Norway spruce along elevational gradients in East-Central Europe

Trees ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1633-1646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Ponocná ◽  
Barbara Spyt ◽  
Ryszard Kaczka ◽  
Ulf Büntgen ◽  
Václav Treml
Keyword(s):  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Elevational Gradients ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Growth Trends ◽  
Climate Responses

Stomatal SO2 uptake and sulfate accumulation in needles of Norway spruce stands (Picea abies) in Central Europe

1995 ◽  
Vol 168-169 (1) ◽  
pp. 405-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Slovik ◽  
Alfred Siegmund ◽  
Gerald Kindermann ◽  
Rüdiger Riebeling ◽  
Árpad Balázs
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Spruce Stands

scholarly journals The alpha-cypermethrin coated net for protecting Norway spruce wood against bark beetles (Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Skrzecz ◽  
Wojciech Grodzki ◽  
Mieczysław Kosibowicz ◽  
Dorota Tumialis
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Bark Beetles ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Ips Typographus ◽  
High Efficacy ◽  
Thanasimus Formicarius ◽  
Spruce Wood ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Negative Effect

Abstract The study estimated the efficacy of a net coated with alpha-cypermethrin used to protect Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) H. Karst] wood against bark beetle infestations. The inside of the net was coated with 100 mg/m2 of alpha-cypermethrin. The studies carried out in 2010 and 2011 took place in southern Poland in the Beskid Żywiecki and Beskid Sądecki mountains in P. abies stands threatened by Ips typographus (Linnaeus, 1758). The research material consisted of wood logs taken off of 70–80-year-old P. abies trees. The logs were wrapped in the net in the early spring before spring swarming of bark beetles. The unwrapped logs were considered as the study controls. An evaluation of the treatments was performed after 2 months. The evaluation was based on the counting of bark beetles galleries found after removing the bark from the wrapped and unwrapped logs. There were no insect galleries on the wrapped logs. The net was a barrier, on which bark beetles died. About 10 dead I. typographus beetles were found on 0.01 m2 of the net surface. On the bark from the unwrapped-control logs there were 3,156 galleries/entrance holes of bark beetles, in total, of which 73% belonged to I. typographus, 13% to Pityogenes chalcographus (Linnaeus, 1761), and almost 10% to Xyloterus lineatus (Oliv.). These results indicated the high efficacy of the net coated with alpha-cypermethrin used for the protection of Norway spruce wood against the bark beetles. At the same time, the net was found to have a negative effect on non-target entomofauna, mainly Hylobius spp., Thanasimus formicarius (L.), and Tetropium castaneum (F.). However, the use of a net did not affect other predatory (Carabidae) and parasitic (Ichneumonidae and Tachinidae) entomofauna.

Exogenous application of methyl jasmonate elicits defenses in Norway spruce (Picea abies) and reduces host colonization by the bark beetle Ips typographus

Oecologia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 148 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadir Erbilgin ◽  
Paal Krokene ◽  
Erik Christiansen ◽  
Gazmend Zeneli ◽  
Jonathan Gershenzon
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
Methyl Jasmonate ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Bark Beetle ◽  
Ips Typographus ◽  
Host Colonization ◽  
Exogenous Application
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