Evaluating Common Landscape Trees for Susceptibility to Asian Longhorned Beetle

Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) has been a know threat to the urban forests of the United States since its discovery in New York in 1996. Since that time information about the suitability of common landscape trees as hosts for Asian longhorned beetle remains limited beyond observation for the infested areas of Chicago, New York, Austria, and China. The research results trials are being conducted using three different methods, including oviposition preference trials on live trees under greenhouse conditions. Each of these distinctly different approaches has provided important preliminary information on host tree suitability for ALB and will continue to aid in identifying potential hosts and less preferred hosts for replanting in infested areas.

Keywords: Design,Ecology,Insects

Pages: 8

Category: Urban Design

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