Emerald ash borer adult feeding preferences and larval performance on susceptible and ‘lingering’ ash tree selections
| Authors: | Therese M. M. Poland, Jennifer Koch, Kathleen Knight, Dave Carey, Mary E. Mason, Toby R. Petrice |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Type: | Proceedings - Paper |
| Station: | Northern Research Station |
| Source: | In: Arango, Rachel A.; Pureswaran, Deepa S., eds. Proceedings of the 7th North American Forest insect work conference. Shaping forests: Action in a changing world. FHAAST-2202-01. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Health Assessment and Applied Sciences Team: 99-103. |
Abstract
The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a wood-boring beetle native to Asia, is the most damaging invasive forest insect pest to have invaded North America (Herms and McCullough 2014). It was likely introduced in the mid-1990s (Siegert et al. 2014), but was not discovered until 2002 near Detroit, Michigan (Haack et al. 2002; Poland and McCullough 2006). In EAB’s native range in far eastern Russia, northern China, Japan, and Korea, it is generally only a pest of non-native ash or indigenous ash species (Fraxinus spp.) that are stressed by other factors (Yu, 1992; Liu et al. 2003; Zhao et al., 2005; Baranchikov et al., 2008; Duan et al. 2012; Haack et al. 2015). The situation in North America is quite different where EAB has spread to 35 states and 5 Canadian provinces as of June 2021. It has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in urban and natural forests and threatens the entire ash resource, which is comprised of 16 known species (EAB Info 2021).