Root and Boring Insects

Lecture outline/goals

• Root insects
  • General features - Root feeding weevils
    • Management
• Wood boring insects - General features
  • Coleoptera: Buprestidae
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae
  • Hymenoptera - Wood Borer management - Coleoptera: Curculionidae
    • Ambrosia beetle management

Coleoptera: Larva scoring phloem Emergence Hole:

• Flattened: Buprestidae
• Round: Cerambycidae

Hymenoptera: No evidence of feeding in phloem Emergence Hole:

• Perfectly Round: Siricidae
  • Sirex cyaneus