A Guide to Common Insects and Diseases of Forest Trees in the Northeastern United States

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1979. A guide to common insects and diseases of forest trees in the northeastern United States. Northeast. Area State and Private Forestry, Forest Insect and Disease Management., Broomall, PA. p. 123, illus.(USDA Forest Service, Northeast Area State and Private Forestry Publication. NA-FR-4)

Acknowledgements

• Acknowledgements

Introduction

• Introduction

Hardwood Pests

Insects

Foliage insects

• Archive:Northeast/Hyphantria cunea

• Archive:Northeast/Malacosoma americanum

• Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria)

• Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar)

• Archive:Northeast/Halisidota caryae

• Archive:Northeast/Choristoneura conflictana

• Archive:Northeast/Ennomos subsignarius

• Archive:Northeast/Fall and Spring cankerworm

• Archive:Northeast/Fall and Spring cankerworm

• Archive:Northeast/Phigalia titea

• Archive:Northeast/Erannis tiliaria

• Archive:Northeast/Anisota senatoria

• Archive:Northeast/Symmerista canicosta

• Archive:Northeast/Heterocampa manteo

• Archive:Northeast/Archips semiferanus

• Archive:Northeast/Croesia semipurpurana

• Archive:Northeast/Datana ministra

• Archive:Northeast/Datana integerrima

• Archive:Northeast/Hydria prunivorata

• Archive:Northeast/Dryocampa rubicunda

• Archive:Northeast/Heterocampa guttivitta

• Archive:Northeast/Corythucha

• Archive:Northeast/Caliroa lineata

• Archive:Northeast/Odontota dorsalis

• Archive:Northeast/Fenusa pusilla

• Archive:Northeast/Odontopus calceatus

• Archive:Northeast/Diapheromera femorata

• Archive:Northeast/Dichomeris ligulella

Stem insects

• Archive:Northeast/Lepidosaphes ulmi

• Archive:Northeast/Asterolecanium minus

• Archive:Northeast/Toumeyella liriodendri

• Archive:Northeast/Magicicada septendecim

• Archive:Northeast/Prionoxystus robiniae

• Archive:Northeast/Agrilus anxius

• Archive:Northeast/Agrilus bilineatus

• Archive:Northeast/Megacyllene robiniae

• Archive:Northeast/Red and white oak borer

• Archive:Northeast/Red and white oak borer

• Archive:Northeast/Glycobius speciosus

Diseases

Foliage diseases

• Anthracnoses
• Sycamore
• Oak
• Walnut
• Maple

Stem diseases

• Aspen shoot blight

• Ash dieback

• Black knot of cherry

• Butternut dieback

• Yellow birch canker and shoot blight

• Hypoxylon canker of aspen

• Cytospora canker of poplar and willow

• Septoria canker of poplar

• Fusarium canker of yellow-poplar

• Eutypella canker

• Chestnut blight

• Beech bark disease

• Trunk decays

• White trunk rot of birch

• Archive:Northeast/Oxyporus populinus

• Archive:Northeast/Phellinus

• Archive:Northeast/Phellinus

• Fomes fomentarius

• Archive:Northeast/Inonotus glomeratus

• Archive:Northeast/Inonotus hispidus

• Pholiota spp.

• Oak wilt

• Dutch elm disease

• Elm phloem necrosis

• Verticillium wilt

• Sapstreak disease of sugar maple

Root diseases

• Shoestring root rot

• Archive:Northeast/Cylindrocladium

CONIFER PESTS

INSECTS

Foliage insects

• Archive:Northeast/Argyresthia thuiella

• Archive:Northeast/Lambdina athasaria pellucidaria

• Archive:Northeast/Coleophora laricella

• Archive:Northeast/Choristoneura fumiferana

• Archive:Northeast/Choristoneura pinus

• Archive:Northeast/Dasychira pinicola

• Pine sawflies

• European pine sawfly

• Jack pine sawfly

• Introduced pine sawfly

• Redheaded pine sawfly

• Red pine sawfly

• Virginia pine sawfly

• White pine sawfly

• Archive:Northeast/Pikonema alaskensis

• Archive:Northeast/Pristiphora erichsonii

• Archive:Northeast/Adelges abietis

• Archive:Northeast/Pineus pinifoliae

• Archive:Northeast/Chionaspis pinifoliae

Stem insects

• Archive:Northeast/Pineus strobi

• Archive:Northeast/Pine bark beetles

• Archive:Northeast/Pine bark beetles

• Archive:Northeast/Pine bark beetles

• Archive:Northeast/Pine bark beetles

• Archive:Northeast/Pine bark beetles

• Archive:Northeast/Rhyacionia adana

• Archive:Northeast/Rhyacionia buoliana

• Archive:Northeast/Rhyacionia frustrana

• Archive:Northeast/Dioryctria zimmermani

• Archive:Northeast/Conophthorus banksianae

• Archive:Northeast/Hylobius pales

• White pine weevil (Pissodes strobi)

• Archive:Northeast/Cinara strobi

• Archive:Northeast/Toumeyella parvicornis

• Archive:Northeast/Aphrophora parallela

• Archive:Northeast/Aphrophora saratogensis

Root and root collar insects

• Archive:Northeast/Hylobius radicis

DISEASES

Foliage diseases

• Brownspot needle cast

• Dothistroma needle cast

• Lophodermium needle cast

• Rhabdocline needle cast

• Rhizosphaera needle cast

• Rusts

• Pine needle rust

• Cedar apple rust

Stem diseases

• Phomopsis blight of cedar

• Pine tip blight

• Sirococcus shoot blight of red pine

• Dwarf mistletoe

• Eastern and western gall rusts

• Sweet fern, stalactiform and Comandra rusts

• White pine blister rust

• Scleroderris canker

• Cytospora canker of spruce

• Tympanis canker

• Red heart of fir

• Archive:Northeast/Phellinus pini

• Archive:Northeast/Inonotus tomentosus

• Archive:Northeast/Phaeolus schweinitzii

Root diseases

• Annosus root rot

• White pine root decline

• Damping-off

Other pests and damaging agents of forest trees

• Air pollution

• Deer browsing

• Frost injury

• Hail injury

• Herbicide injury

• Salt injury

• Scorch

• Wind damage

• Sapsucker damage

• Mouse damage

• Nematodes

• Spruce spider mite

• Winter injury

• Archive:Northeast/Erethizon dorsatum

Glossary

• Glossary