Forest Insect and Disease Newsletter

In this issue:

Continuing problems with long-term drought

• Winter drying of conifers
• The drought goes on and on...

We love to hate 'em

• Getting questions about forest tent caterpillars?
• Eastern tent caterpillars

Early season observations

• Variegated cutworm eggs
• Eriophyid mite galls
• Sawyer beetle larvae
• Slime flux
• Hypoxylon canker of oak
• Cordyceps - parasite of insects
• Rough bullet galls on bur oak

Heads-up for June

• Anthracnose leaf disease
• Needle diseases of spruce
• Gypsy moth treatments revised

Forest tent capterpillars feeding on Aspen leaves.

Two fruiting bodies of a species of Cordyceps growing out of the head of a larva.