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Landscape Insect Pests of Concern: Tree Borers, Nuisance Pests, and Invasives Diane Alston, Entomologist, Utah State University

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Page 1: Landscape Insect Pests of Concern: Tree Borers and Others · Keep trees healthy, avoid stress, avoid summer pruning when moths lay eggs Manually remove pitch masses, ... field crops,

Landscape Insect Pests of Concern:Tree Borers, Nuisance Pests, and Invasives

Diane Alston, Entomologist, Utah State University

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Topics▪ Tree Borers

▪ Pitch moths

▪ White pine weevil

▪ Locust borer

▪ Invasive Nuisance Insects

▪ Elm seed bug

▪ Red fire bug

▪ Brown marmorated stink bug

▪ High Alert Potential Invasive

▪ Emerald ash borer

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Tree Borers Submitted to the Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Lab

in 2014

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Pitch Borers Pitch Mass Borer - MothDioryctria spp. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Hosts: Pines (Austrian, Scots, Ponderosa,Lodgepole, Pinyon), occasionally DouglasFir and true firs

Attacks weakened trees

Large, oozing masses of pitch caused bylarvae feeding beneath the bark

Moths lay eggs in bark crevices nearpitch masses

Larvae actively feed in late summer, canspend up to two years feeding on the resin

Boring larvae damage the tree’s waterconducting vessels

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Pitch Borers

Management

Keep trees healthy, avoid stress, avoidsummer pruning when moths lay eggs

Manually remove pitch masses, crush caterpillars, and allow wounds to heal

Preventive bark spraysLate June through August for at leasttwo yearsbifenthrin, cyfluthrin, and carbaryl

Insecticides will not kill larvae under thebark, require several years to suppress

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White Pine Weevil Weevil: small beetle with a snout

Attacks terminal leaders of blue spruce trees in Utah (rarely attack pine in the West)

‘Shepherd’s crook’, needle drop

Stunted growth, bushy growth withmultiple leaders

Adult weevils spend the winter inleaf litter under trees

Adults become active at full bloom of forsythia in the spring

Adults feed just below terminal bud,Lay eggs (up to 100 per female)

Grub-like larvae bore into terminal

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White Pine Weevil

Management

Sanitation:Clean up duff under trees in late fall to reducepopulations for the following spring

Insecticides:Apply preventive sprays to spruce terminal branchesbeginning at forsythia bloom and keep protectedfor two weeksPyrethroids: bifenthrin, cyfluthrinSystemics: imidacloprid?

Summer pruning:Prune out terminal shoots with shepherd’s crook &destroy before larvae pupate

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Locust BorerStriking black and yellow longhorned beetle(~1 inch long)

Hosts: Black locust (‘Purple Robe’); Honeylocust is not attacked

Adults become active about the first weekof August along Wasatch Front; earlybloom of goldenrod (nectar feeders)

Female lays up to 200 eggs in bark crevicesnear wounds on trunk & larger branches

Larvae bore into cambium, remain for thewinter

In spring, larvae bore into sapwood & heartwood (large tunnels)

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Locust Borer

Management

Avoid planting black locust

Maintain healthy trees with optimal wateringand fertilization

Prune to remove damaged limbs (hazardsin wind storms)

Preventive insecticide trunk spraysBeginning mid-August, repeat once or twicethrough early Octobercarbaryl, pyrethroids

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Invasive Nuisance Insect Pests

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Elm Seed BugFirst confirmed detection in Utah: July, 2014(Salt Lake and Cache Counties)

Native to EuropeIdaho in 2012Oregon in 2013

Seed bug family: LygaeidaeFeeds primarily on elm seeds, also other trees

Major nuisance pestEnters buildings (like boxelder bug)Emits a pungent odor from scent glands

(bitter almonds)

In Italy, apply insecticides to host trees when immature stage (nymph) is present (spring andearly summer; May-June)

Use building exclusion techniques like for boxelder bug; vacuum congregations – warmsoapy water

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Red Fire Bug▪ First North America detection in Salt Lake City in 2008

▪ Detected in Kaysville (Davis Co.) in 2014

▪ Native to Europe and Asia

▪ Seed feeders (Pyrrhocoridae): linden, mallow, and limes (dry, ripe seeds)

▪ Seek shade on hot days

▪ Congregate on structures, plants and under leaf litter

▪ Manage like boxelder bug

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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Invades homes/buildings in the fall/winter – major nuisance pest

Extremely broad host range: field crops, fruits, vegetables, fruiting ornamentals

Can cause substantial economic crop loss

Difficult to control with insecticides

Trapped in Salt Lake and Utah Cos. 2012-2014Avenues, University of Utah, Eastern Bench

Look alike: Rough stink bug(native to Utah)

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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Native to eastern Asia

First detected in the U.S. in Pennsylvania in late 1990s

Feeds on a broad range of plants

crops, ornamentals

Can be a major nuisance pest

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High Alert Potential Invasive:Emerald Ash Borer

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Emerald Ash Borer: Invasive – not in Utah, yet…

Emerald Ash Borer is on our doorstep

▪ Native to Asia

▪ Flatheaded beetle (Buprestidae) (~1/2 inch)

▪ Larvae feed on inner bark disrupting water & nutrient transport

▪ First found in the U.S. in MI in 2002

▪ Killed nearly 60 million ash trees (~50 mill in southern Michigan)

▪ Attacks mature trees (olive family, Oleaceae)

▪ Ash: all species of North American ash

▪ White fringetree (Chioanthus virginicus L.)

Boulder, CO

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Larva

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Larval Tunnels - Injury

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Monitoring

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Monitoring

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Monitoring

D-shapedexit hole

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Monitoring

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Pest Life Stage Degree Days Plant Indicator

start of adult emergence

450 - 500black locust bloomMay to early June

peak of adult emergence

900 - 1100catalpa bloomJune

Monitoring – Degree days/plant indicator

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Monitoring

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Monitoring and Management Practices

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Knowing When or Whether to Treat

▪ No threshold has been set

▪ When present, trees should be protected

within two miles of attacked tree

▪ Protective trunk sprays

pyrethroids

▪ Inject systemic

Safari (dinotefuran)

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Management Practices

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Management Practices

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Management Practices

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Management Practices

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Utah Pests Online Resources

www.utahpests.usu.edu

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Fact Sheets: over 200 fact sheets on pests of ornamentals, turf, fruits, vegetables, field crops, health-related, nuisance, stored products, structural, etc.

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Video Fact Sheets

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IPM Advisories:

ornamentals, turf, fruits, vegetableswww.utahpests.usu.edu/ipm

Free subscriptionTimely info on pest activity-insects-mites-diseases-nutrient deficiencies-environmental stress

Lots of images!IPM recommendationsEffective pesticides

All you need to sign up for the advisories is an email address

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IPM Advisories (2014 Examples)

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Pest DiagnosticsUtah Plant Pest Diagnostic Labwww.utahpests.usu.edu/uppdl

Sample Submission

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Invasive Insect Field Guide for Utahwww.utahpests.usu.edu: Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey

Most Unwanted Invaders (in left navigation bar)

Invasive Insect Field Guide for Utah (link)

http://www.utahpests.usu.edu/
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USU Extension Pest Management Team: Utah Pests

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Find this slideshow and others at www.utahpests.usu.edu

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