Notes on balsam woolly adelgid, Adelges piceae (Ratzeburg, 1844) (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), range expansion in Idaho, Montana and Utah

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Davis ◽  
Laura Lowrey ◽  
Tom Eckberg ◽  
Amy Gannon ◽  
Danielle Malesky ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Quiring ◽  
Don Ostaff ◽  
Lester Hartling ◽  
Dan Lavigne ◽  
Keith Moore ◽  
...  

Management of balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae Ratz.) and of trees damaged by this pest may pose one of the biggest challenges to forest management in Atlantic Canada during the next decade. Feeding by the balsam woolly adelgid is restricted to Abies species in which it causes gouting, branch and upper crown death. Approximately 100 years after its introduction into eastern Canada, symptoms of feeding by the balsam woolly adelgid on balsam fir are found throughout all of Nova Scotia, most of Newfoundland and in southern and eastern New Brunswick. The distribution of symptomatic balsam fir trees coincides with areas where mean January temperatures are below -11°C and where plant hardiness zones are higher than 4a. The presence of balsam fir trees with obvious symptoms of BWA damage throughout much of Atlantic Canada emphasizes the ubiquitous presence of this pest in these provinces and highlights the need to develop hazard rating systems to establish pest management programs to diminish its impact. Key words: global warming, Adelges piceae Ratz., forest insect pest management, abiotic factors


1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 1101-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.M. Humble

Shortly after the discovery of the introduction of balsam woolly adelgid, Adelges piceae (Ratzeburg), to the south coast of British Columbia, a predator release program was initiated to establish a complex of European and Asian adelgid predators to supplement existing native predators. Between 1960 and 1969, eight species of exotic predators, Aphidoletes thompsoni Mohn (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Cremifania nigrocellulata Czerny and Leucopis hennigrata McAlpine [=Leucopis sp. nr. melanopus Tanas. (McAlpine 1978)] (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae), Laricobius erichsonii Rosenhauer (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), Aphidecta obliterata (L.), Scymnus (Pullus) impexus Mulsant, and Scymnus (S.) pumilio (Weise) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), and Tetraphleps abdulghani Ghauri (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae), were released (Clark et al. 1971; Schooley et al. 1984).


1985 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. H. Arthur ◽  
F. P. Hain

A total of 89 Fraser fir, Abies fraseri Pursh. (Poir.), from seven locations in the southern Appalachians were tested for non-suberized impervious tissue (NIT) at artificial wound sites. All trees except one formed NIT in a time period that was considered normal (3 weeks), with no delays due to tree age, location or presence of balsam woolly adelgid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.). Although most Fraser fir react to adelgid attack by forming “rotholz” (red wood), a number of infested trees showed no visual signs of rotholz formation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (158) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Newton ◽  
John Frampton ◽  
John Monahan ◽  
Barry Goldfarb ◽  
Fred Hain

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