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Pyemotes herfsi, also known as the oak leaf gall mite or itch mite, is an ectoparasitic mite identified in Europe and subsequently found in India, Asia, and the United States. The mite parasitizes a variety of insect hosts and bites humans, causing red, itchy, and painful wheals (welts). The mites are barely visible, measuring about 0.2–0.8 ...
Hundreds of thousands of the tiny wind-soaring and itch-inducing critters can fall from trees every day and are packed with a venom that can paralyze prey 166,000 times their size.
Cystotheca lanestris, the live oak witch's broom fungus, is a species of mildew that infects buds and induces stem galls called witch's brooms on oak trees in California, Arizona, and Mexico in North America. [2] [3] Witch's brooms are "abnormal clusters of shoots that are thickened, elongated, and highly branched."
Aceria mackiei, previously Eriophyes mackiei, the live oak erineum mite, is an abundant eriophyoid mite that produces leaf-blister galls on coast live oak, interior live oak, huckleberry oak, and canyon live oak. [1] This mite's ability to induce galls in oaks of both the black oak group and the intermediate oak group is unique. [1]
Oak wilt is a fungal caused by Bretziella fagacearum, is a disease originating in eastern Russia. It can slowly or quickly kill an oak tree when the tree reacts to the fungus by plugging its own cambial tissue while attempting to block the spread of the fungus. This plug prevents the cambium vascular tissue from delivering nutrients and water ...
Oligonychus aceris (maple spider mite), a pest of maples [2] Oligonychus afrasiaticus (date palm spider mite), a major pest of the date palm in North Africa and the Middle East; [3] [4] also on grasses, including maize [1] Oligonychus araneum (grasswebbing mite) [5] Oligonychus bicolor (oak red mite), on oaks and other hardwood trees [6]
Others that Rushing said should go into the invasive list would be Virginia Creeper, Poison Ivy, Artemisia, Tallow Trees and Willow Trees. Ross Reily can be reached by email at rreily@gannett.com ...
Taphrina caerulescens infects about 50 different species of oak (Quercus), predominately red oak (Q. erythrobalanus) and some white oak (Q. leurobalanus).Oak leaf blister is found across the country and in varying parts of the world but is most severe in the southeast and Gulf States of the U.S. [6] It is generally accepted that a T. caerulescens strain isolated from one host cannot be used to ...