Pests and Diseases Forestry Agriculture

Pests and Diseases Forestry Agriculture

Pests and Diseases

Insects and diseases of trees play important roles in the forests around the world. Here you will find informative links on the identification, ecology, and management of many of these organisms.

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- Provides practical information on this disease including history, hosts and symptoms, ecology, control and management, recent publications and events.
- Information by host plant on diseases and damages affecting trees and perennial flowers from the University of Illinois Extension.
- Brief account of this pest of spruce trees, its growth, and means of control.
- This site provides information about Dutch elm disease and ELMguard - a new experimental preventative treatment being developed at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry.
- Plant disease diagnostics by the University of Minnesota Extension Service. Mainly designed for plant disease problems in yards and gardens. It is based on visual observations of symptoms. It has a section on trees that might be useful in forestry.
- USDA technical publications that address specific tree pests and diseases, including identification and control.
- The Eastern tent caterpillar affects black cherry trees and other fruit and shade trees. The forest tent caterpillar infests hardwood trees such as sugar maple and oak.
- US national program designed to determine the status, changes, and trends in indicators of forest condition on an annual basis. Provides forest health highlights by State or Region.
- Extensive information on the biology, impact, distribution and management of this exotic insect in North America.
- Created by the University of California's Sudden Oak Death Research Team, this site monitors the distribution of the disease.
- Quality photographs of forest insects and disease organisms. Contains image search or browse by categories.
- Information sheets on forest pests management (many in PDF format) available from the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension.
- Database containing information on exotic insects, mites and pathogens with potential to cause significant damage to North American forest resources.
- Online textbook, news and upcoming meetings of forest pathology.
- Provides extensive information on all kinds of invasive species in North America.
- A short account of this caterpillar pest of maples, oaks and elms.
- Extensive resource on forest insects and related topics.
- Brief account of the introduction of this Chinese insect into North America, and with a list of the affected species.
- Task force focusing on the pathogen causing Sudden Oak Death disease through research, management, education and public policy.
- Collection of forest and tree health publications and fact sheets, primarily for midcontinent North America.
- An extensive collection of images and a variety of information on the main insects and diseases of the forests of Quebec and Eastern Canada.

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