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Girdled pecan twig Twig girdler on pecan twig This beetle is widely known for the damage it causes to pecan plantations, but also to lumber trees such as hickory , oak , poplar and elm . In late summer and fall, the adult female girdles small branches, 1 ⁄ 4 -to- 1 ⁄ 2 -inch (6.4 to 12.7 mm) diameter, with its mandibles, cutting through the ...
USDA NRCS Plants Database; Honey mesquite, Screwbean mesquite, and Western mesquite at Texas A&M's Plant Answers; Honey mesquite at the Texas Tree Planting Guide; AgNews article on wood to ethanol using mesquite; Health Benefits of Mesquite; Rogers, Ken E. (2000). The Magnificent Mesquite. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77105-5. OCLC ...
A twig girdler (Oncideres cingulata) can seriously affect reproduction by killing back the tops of seedlings and sprouts. Both standing dead trees and freshly cut logs are highly susceptible to attacks by numerous species of wood borers.
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
The hickory spiral borer kills many seedlings and young trees, and the pecan carpenterworm degrades both trees and logs. The twig girdler (Oncideres cingulata) attacks both small and large trees; it seriously deforms trees by sawing branches. Sometimes, these girdlers cut hickory seedlings near ground level.
Flower spikes. Strombocarpa pubescens (formerly Prosopis pubescens), commonly known as screwbean mesquite, [2] is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the southwestern United States (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, southern Nevada and Utah) and northern Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora).
This map shows the incorporated areas in Dallas County, Texas. Mesquite is highlighted in red. I created it in Inkscape using data from the following links: North Central Texas Council of Governments Maps Website , Dallas County Commissioner District Map ( PDF )