Potential causes of the pear thrips outbreak in sugar maple

Jack C. Schultz

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Potential causes of the pear thrips outbreak in sugar maple

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jack C. Schultz

Year:

1991

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Parker, Bruce. L.; Skinner, Margaret; Lewis, Trevor, eds. Towards Understanding Thysanoptera. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-147. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 113-129.

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Abstract

No one knows what caused the 1988 outbreak of pear thrips, Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel), in sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marsh., in the northeastern United States. As an entomologist and ecologist who knows even less about this insect than most of the authors of this volume, I cannot presume to understand the causes of this event any better than anyone else does. This essay will of necessity be highly speculative.

Parent Publication

Towards understanding thysanoptera

Citation

Schultz, Jack C. 1991. Potential causes of the pear thrips outbreak in sugar maple. Parker, Bruce. L.; Skinner, Margaret; Lewis, Trevor, eds. Towards Understanding Thysanoptera. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-147. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 113-129.