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Agrilus anxius, the bronze birch borer, is a wood-boring buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in the warmer parts of the continent and rare in the north. [1] It is a serious pest on birch trees (Betula), frequently killing them. The river birch Betula nigra is the most resistant species, while other American birches are less so.
Agrilus is a genus of jewel beetles, notable for having the largest number of species (about 3000) of any single genus in the animal kingdom. [3] Species of the genus have a cosmopolitan distribution on all continents except Antarctica, [ 4 ] and feed on a wide variety of flowering plant hosts. [ 5 ]
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Birch dieback is a disease of birch trees that causes the branches in the crown to die off. The disease may eventually kill the tree. In an event in the Eastern United States and Canada in the 1930s and 1940s, no causal agent was found, but the wood-boring beetle, the bronze birch borer, was implicated in the severe damage and death of the tree that often followed.
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Agrilus biguttatus is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. Common names include oak splendour beetle , oak buprestid beetle , and two-spotted oak borer . [ 1 ] This beetle is known as a pest that causes damage to oak trees and is a major factor in oak decline .
Agrilus cuprescens, known generally as the rose stem girdler or bronze cane borer, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America. [1] [2] [3]
Agrilus granulatus, commonly known as the granulate poplar borer, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America. It is found in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]