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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 ]
Ten species of flatheaded borers of the family Buprestidae feed on spruce and fir, but hemlock is their preferred food source (Rose and Lindquist 1985). [3] As with roundheaded borers, most feeding occurs in dying or dead trees, or close to injuries on living trees. Damage becomes abundant only where a continuing supply of breeding material is ...
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Betula populifolia, known as the gray (or grey) birch, is a deciduous tree in the family Betulaceae. It is native to eastern North America and is most commonly found in the northeast United States as well as southern Quebec , New Brunswick , and Nova Scotia . [ 1 ]
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.
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 ]
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