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Microbial control of wood-boring insects attacking forest and shade trees
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Year Published
2007
Publication
In: Lacey, Lawrence A.; Kaya, Harry K.; eds. Field manual of techniques in invertebrate pathology. Chapter VII-10. Secaucus, NJ: Springer: 505-533.
Abstract
Wood-boring insect pests that feed on the bark, phloem, or xylem (wood) of living trees pose unique management challenges because their immature stages live in cryptic, often inaccessible, habitats within host trees. The eggs of wood borers are laid in or on tree trunks, branches, terminal shoots, or roots. After the eggs hatch, neonates tunnel in and feed on internal target tissues, making infestation both difficult and expensive to detect and control.
Citation
Hajek, Ann E.; Bauer, Leah S. 2007. Microbial control of wood-boring insects attacking forest and shade trees. In: Lacey, Lawrence A.; Kaya, Harry K.; eds. Field manual of techniques in invertebrate pathology. Chapter VII-10. Secaucus, NJ: Springer: 505-533. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5933-9_24.