Hitchhikers with invasive Tetropium fuscum (Fabr.) (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) in Atlantic Canada

Karin Jacobs; Keith A. Seifert; Ken J. Harrison; Georgette Smith; Thomas Kirisits

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Hitchhikers with invasive Tetropium fuscum (Fabr.) (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) in Atlantic Canada

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Karin Jacobs, Keith A. Seifert, Ken J. Harrison, Georgette Smith, Thomas Kirisits

Year:

2003

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Fosbroke, Sandra L.C.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2002; 2002 January 15-18; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-300. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 8-10.

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Abstract

Tetropium fuscum (Fabr.) (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) is native to Europe and apart from the Halifax, Nova Scotia area, is unknown elsewhere in North America (Smith & Hurley, 2000). Tetropium fuscum poses no primary threat to Picea abies Karst. in Europe and is regarded there as a secondary insect that usually attacks severely weakened or recently dead trees. An infestation of Tetropium fuscum was discovered in 1998 in red spruce trees (Picea rubens Sarg.) in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada (Smith and Hurley, 2000). The trees had very little resistance and repeated attacks by the beetles ultimately led to the death of the trees. Several species of ophiostomatoid fungi were found in association with the T. fuscum infestation.

Parent Publication

Economies of Scale and Forest Management in Mississippi

Citation

Jacobs, Karin; Seifert, Keith A.; Harrison, Ken J.; Smith, Georgette; Kirisits, Thomas. 2003. Hitchhikers with invasive Tetropium fuscum (Fabr.) (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) in Atlantic Canada. In: Fosbroke, Sandra L.C.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2002; 2002 January 15-18; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-300. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 8-10.