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ENTM307E:Worksheet 9.Leaf Miners, Twig Ovipositors and Twig and Shoot Chewers

Draw a picture of a birch leaf miner injury.�������� Diagram symptom of freshly laid eggs in leaf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this a serpentine, or a blotch leafminer?

 

 

How many generations does it have per year, and when does the first generation occur?

 

 

How do you distinguish leaf mining injury from scorch in the field?

 

 

When is the most effective time to get insecticide on a leaf to control a leaf miner in relation to the time of the mining and the number of generations it has per year?

 

 

 

What systemic insecticides can be used to control this pest and how are they applied?

 

 

 

Draw a native holly leaf miner mine.���� Is this a serpentine or a blotch mine?

 

 

 

Draw a cicada.�� Where do they feed as immatures, and adults.Illustrate its injury.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss differences in the biology and appearance of the annual and periodic cicada, and their control strategy.

 

 

Diagram the injury a twig girdler and a twig pruner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How does this injury affect plant health?

 

 

 

 

 

Draw a northern pine weevil and a Pales weevil.����������� Diagram how they injure a twig.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What conditions are required for this beetle to complete its life cycle, and how would this affect where you would find it in the landscape?

 

 

 

How can you interrupt its life cycle, with insecticides and or other tactics?

 

 

 

 

How does the injury, biology and control of the white pine weevil differ from Pales and northern pine weevils?

 

 

 

 

Draw European pine shoot moth injury.

 

 

 

 

 

How does it spend the winter?��� Where does the overwintering generation feed in April?

 

 

 

Where does the summer generationfeed in June?

 

When is the best time to control this pest and what kind of insecticide would you use?

 

 

What trees are attacked by Zimmerman pine moth?

 

 

What is its life cycle? When should this pest be controlled?

 

 

What symptoms should you look for on a plant?

 

 

How would the management plan on a Christmas tree farm differ from that on a nursery?

Why?

 

 

 

 

Zimmerman pine moth outbreaks usually follow periods of drought stress.Why?

 

 

 

 

 


 

Draw a clearwing borer moth.

 

 

 

 

What is a pheromone trap and how is it used for timing chemical sprays for control of clearwing moths?

 

 

How does timing for chemical controls differ from that for entomophagous nematodes (see text p. 137)

 

 

To date, entomophagous nematodes have been most successful for lepidopterous borers that attack the lower parts of trees.Refer to page 138 in the text and list which borers are the best candidates for successful use of nematodes.

 

 

 

 

How does plant stress promote borer problems, and how can you apply this information in the landscape?

 

 

 

 

Describe how sanitation can be used to reduce pest problems with borers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can you use tree wraps and NOT cause a problem with clear-wing borers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self Study Guide (in addition to identification of samples)