What’s Hot HL Issue 2


Pitch on branches sign of white pine weevil feeding and oviposition. Photo provided by: E. Bradford Walker, Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Bugwood.org

Mating pair of white pine weevil. Photo provided by: Daniel Herms, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org

Water logged soils. Photo provided by: Brian Kunkel, Ornamental IPM Extension Specialist, University of Delaware.

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Digger bee visiting a flower. Photo by: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org.

Digger bee hole in the soil. Photo found at: http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/diaglab/08hilite/05-07.html and probably taken by Pat Finley.

Digger bee adult. Photo found at: http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/diaglab/08hilite/05-07.html.

White prunicola scale found on lilac. Photo by: Brian Kunkel, Ornamentals IPM Specialist, University of Delaware.

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Spruce spider mite eggs (peak egg hatch 172 GDD). Photo by USDA Forest Service Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.

Damage caused by spruce spider mite feeding (shows up during summer). Photo by USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.


Garlic mustard early. Photo by Nancy Fraley, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org.


A flowering garlic mustard plant. Photo by Dan Tenaglia, Missouriplants.com, Bugwood.org.


Forest understory invasion by garlic mustard. Photo by Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org.

What’s Hot HL 2

Juniper webworm larva. Image provided by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Bugwood.org


Juniper webworm damage. Image provided by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Bugwood.org

White pine sheath mites. The small white images in the faint red circles are the mites. Image provided by http://woodypests.cas.psu.edu/PestDiagnosis/Pine.html