Oak Pests: A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, and Chemical Injury

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Solomon, J.D.; McCracken, F.I.; Anderson, R.L.; Lewis, Jr. R.; Oliveria, F.L.; Filer, T.H.; Barry, P.J. 1987. Oak Pests: A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, Air Pollution, and Chemical Injury. Protection Report R8-PR7. USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 69 p.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Insects 2.1 Insect Defoliators 2.2 Minor Defoliators 2.3 Insect Borers 2.4 Minor Borers 2.5 Miscellaneous Insects 2.6 Minor Miscellaneous Insects 3 Diseases 3.1 Decay Fungi 3.2 Wilts 3.3 Cankers 3.4 Leaf Diseases 3.5 Seedling Diseases 3.6 Phanerogams 3.7 Chemical Damage, Air pollution, Pesticides, Other Chemicals 3.8 Minor Diseases 3.9 Pesticides 3.10 Controls 4 Acknowledgements

Introduction

• Introduction

Insects

Insect Defoliators

• Elm spanworm
• Fall cankerworm
• Orangestriped oakworm
• Variable oakleaf caterpillar
• Yellownecked caterpillar
• Forest tent caterpillar
• Gypsy moth
• Slug oak sawfly
• Walkingstick
• Oak Leafroller
• Solitary Oak Leafminer
• Gregarious Oak Leafminer
• Oak Skeletonizer

Minor Defoliators

• Spring cankerworm
• Linden looper
• Pinkstriped oakworm
• Spiny oakworm
• Asiatic oak weevil
• Oak leaftier

Insect Borers

• Carpenterworm
• Oak clearwing borer
• Red oak borer
• White oak borer
• Twolined chestnut borer
• Oak timberworm
• Columbian Timber Beetle
• Pine-hole borers
• Twig Pruner
• Tilehorned Prionus
• Broadnecked Root Borer

Minor Borers

• Little carpenterworm
• Beech borer
• Spotworm borer
• Flatheaded appletree borer
• Oak branch borer
• Oak-stem borer

Miscellaneous Insects

• Oak Phylloxerids
• Oak Leaf Aphids
• Oak Lace Bug
• Periodical Cicada
• Lecanium Scales
• Gouty Oak Gall
• Oak Apple Gall
• Acorn Weevils

Minor Miscellaneous Insects

• Giant bark aphid
• Pit scales
• Kermes scales
• Obscure scale
• Spider mites
• White grubs

Diseases

Decay Fungi

Canker Rots

• Hispidus Canker
• Spiculosa Canker
• Irpex Canker

Butt Rots

• Hedgehog fungus rot
• Polyporus fungus rot
• Varnish fungus rot
• Sulfur fungus rot
• Oyster fungus rot

Top Rots

• Stereum fungus rot
• Poria fungus rot

Root Rots

• Corticium Root Rot
• Texas Root Rot
• Shoestring root rot

Wilts

• Texas Live Oak Decline
• Oak wilt

Cankers

• Nectria canker
• Botryodiplodia canker
• Hypoxylon canker

Leaf Diseases

• Anthracnose
• Leaf Blisters
• Actinopelte leaf Spot
• Leaf rust (fusiform rust and eastern gall rust)

Seedling Diseases

• Damping-off

Phanerogams

• Mistletoe

Chemical Damage, Air pollution, Pesticides, Other Chemicals

• Leaf necrosis-decline (Ozone, sulfur dioxide, fluoride, herbicide, ammonia)

Minor Diseases

• Leaf spot
• Powdery mildew
• Twig canker
• Spot anthracnose
• Smooth patch
• Iron-deficiency chlorosis

Pesticides

• Insect/Insecticides
• Fungi/Fungicides

Controls

• Controls

Acknowledgements

• Acknowledgements