Bait bucket trapping for red oak borers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Jimmy R. Galford

doi:10.2737/NE-RN-293

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Bait bucket trapping for red oak borers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

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Authors:

Jimmy R. Galford

Year:

1980

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/NE-RN-293

Source:

Research Note NE-293. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 2 p.

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Abstract

Forty baits were tested in buckets to attract the red oak borer, Enaphalodes rufulus (Haldeman). Only six beetles were caught. A low beetle population and above normal rainfall may have reduced the catch. However, many other cerambycids were trapped.

Citation

Galford, Jimmy R. 1980. Bait bucket trapping for red oak borers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Research Note NE-293. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 2 p.