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  • 1
    ISSN: 1573-8248
    Keywords: natural enemies ; Pissodes strobi ; Picea sitchensis ; Canada
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Des récoltes d'insectes associés au charançon du pin blanc (Pissodes strobi [Peck]) sur l'épinette de Sitka (Picea sitchensis [Bong.] Carr.) ont été réalisés dans 9 localités de Colombie Britannique. Quatorze espèces d'hyménoptères, 3 de diptères et 1 de psocoptère ont été retrouvées associées au charançon au cours de ces récoltes. Le prédateur de la famille des Lonchaeidés,Lonchaea corticis Taylor dominait, suivi du parasitoide de la famille des Braconides:Allodorus crassigaster (Prov.).
    Notes: Abstract Insects associated with the Sitka spruce weevil,Pissodes strobi (Peck), on Sitka spruce,Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. were sampled at 9 locations in British Columbia. Fourteen species of hymenoptera, 3 diptera, and 1 psocopteran were found associated with the weevil. Samples were dominated by the lonchaeid predator,Lonchaea corticis Taylor, and to a lesser extent by the braconid parasitoid,Allodorus crassigaster (Prov.).
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    Journal of chemical ecology 5 (1979), S. 663-671 
    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Pissodes strobi Coleoptera ; Curculionidae ; picea sitchensis Carr. ; Thuja plicata Donn ; feeding bioassay ; feeding deterrents ; feeding stimulants
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract A feeding bioassay forPissodes strobi Peck was developed that consisted of plastic petri dishes containing paired agar disks immersed in paraffin wax. Lens paper covering the top surface of the disks provided 1, 2, or 3 weevils in each replicate with a surface through which they made regular feeding punctures which could be easily counted. The number of feeding punctures was correlated with the amount of agar ingested. Candidate feeding stimulants or deterrents were applied to the paper covering one of the disks in the dishes, while the other served as a solvent control. Feeding stimulants were tested using disks of pure agar, and deterrents were assayed on agar disks that contained 2% ground, dried Sitka spruce bark,Picea sitchensis Carr. The weevils exhibited a concentration-dependent response to the amount of spruce bark in the agar disk. Feeding stimulation by Sitka spruce bark extracts, and deterrency by leaf oil of western red cedar,Thuja plicata Donn, was demonstrated. The bioassay would be useful in chemical isolation programs aimed at identification of feeding stimulants and deterrents.
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    Journal of chemical ecology 7 (1981), S. 39-48 
    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Insect feeding deterrents ; antifeedants ; Pissodes strobi Peck ; Coleoptera ; Curculionidae ; Thuja plicata Donn
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The feeding deterrent activity of fractions from the foliage of western red cedar,Thujaplicata Donn, was studied in laboratory bioassays using the white pine weevil,Pissodes strobi Peck, as a test insect. The most active fraction was the volatile mixture that comprises the leaf oil of this tree species. Further fractionation of the leaf oil indicated feeding deterrent activity in the monoterpene hydrocarbon, thujone, and terpene alcohol fractions. When tested alone, both (−)-3-isothujone and (+)-3-thujone, which made up 75–88% and 5–10% of the leaf oil, respectively, deterred feeding by the weevils. Western red cedar leaf oil also showed antifeedant activity with the alder flea beetle,Altica ambiens (Le Conte), and served as an oviposition deterrent for the onion root maggot,Hylemya antiqua Meigen. The leaf oil, however, had no inhibitory effect on the feeding of the leaf roller,Epinotia solandriana L., and the red-backed sawfly,Eriocampa ovata L.
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
    Description: Seedlings from 18 provenances along a coast-interior transect in the Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carrière × Picea glauca (Moench) Voss introgression zone in northwestern British Columbia were mechanically wounded at the beginning of their third growing season to simulate natural attack by the white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi (Peck). Constitutive resin canals (CRC) in the cortex and traumatic resin canals (TRC) in the xylem of terminal shoots were characterized microscopically 4 months after wounding. Wounding resulted in a large increase in CRC size and in TRC number and density. Provenances differed significantly in TRC number and in CRC number, size, total area, and the proportion of total bark area occupied by CRC. CRC number and size, TRC number, and provenance weevil resistance (obtained from previously published data) increased with increasing latitude, elevation, and distance from the Pacific Ocean (i.e., towards the P. glauca end of the introgression zone) and decreased with increasing longitude (i.e., towards P. sitchensis). These traits also increased with aridity and continentality and decreased with most temperature, precipitation, and growing season length variables. Statistically significant multiple regression models related variation in some resin canal traits to geographic (r2 = 0.71) and climatic (r2 = 0.62) variables. Provenance mean values for weevil resistance were positively associated with predicted values for TRC number and CRC size. These results indicate that it is possible to predict locations in the introgression zone containing trees that possess desirable resin canal traits using geographic or climatic variables.
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1982-12-01
    Description: The effects of defoliation by western spruce budworm (Choristoneuraoccidentalis (Freeman)), on Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugamenziesii (Mirb.) Franco) radial growth at breast height and tree mortality are given. Four hundred and twenty trees were marked in an 81-year-old stand, and their defoliation levels were recorded annually from 1970 to 1980 in an outbreak that lasted from 1970 to 1974, inclusive. Forty-one trees were felled and dissected in 1977, 3 years after recovery began. The number of stems per hectare was reduced by 39.3% and basal area by 11.6% through mortality, most occurring among the small diameter, suppressed, and intermediate trees. Relationships were established between mortality and defoliation. Radial increments were examined, and the presence of four outbreaks during the life of the stand was detected. The combined effect of these infestations amounted to a loss of about 12% of the estimated potential diameter had not the insects been active. The most recent outbreak (1970–1974) caused a total of 10 years of subnormal growth, including 5 years due to defoliation and 5 years of recovery. The relationship between radial increment losses and defoliation intensity and duration is studied and quantified.
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-11
    Description: Attack by the white pine weevil has notably reduced Sitka spruce productivity in British Columbia (BC) (Canada) and western US. By the 1970s, the BC Ministry of Forests established provenance trials of Sitka spruce with the objective of detecting usable genetic resistance to weevil. These early trials reported significant weevil resistance and allowed the production of the first (F1) controlled-cross progeny generation with demonstrable weevil resistance (R) or susceptibility (S). This study reports results of the screening for weevil resistance and the levels of constitutive defenses of this F1 Sitka spruce progeny. Progeny from resistant parents (R x R progeny) sustained significantly fewer weevil attacks than progeny from susceptible parents (S x S progeny) or progeny with one resistant and one susceptible parent (R x S progeny). Individual and family heritability estimates of the weevil resistance were 0.5 and 0.9, respectively. Constitutive defenses, measured by resin canal and sclereid cell density in the cortex, were significantly higher in R x R progeny than in R x S or S x S progeny. We observed a negative correlation between the percentage of trees attacked in each cross and the average density of the resin canals or sclereid cells for each cross.
    Print ISSN: 0015-752X
    Electronic ISSN: 1464-3626
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1985-10-01
    Description: Surveys of seven western hemlock (Tsugaheterophylla) stands in south coastal British Columbia using fixed-radius plots assessed dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobiumtsugense) infection intensity level and spatial distribution patterns. Regression analysis indicated a close relationship between the plot infection index (average dwarf mistletoe rating of trees in a plot) and the percentage of infected trees. Plot infection index reached 4.0 when all trees in a plot were infected. Infected trees were either associated with widely spaced infection centers or were more or less evenly distributed throughout the stand. Spatial distribution pattern and spread rate were related to (i) the severity and distribution pattern of the initial inoculum sources, (ii) the manner of stand regeneration and resulting stand structure, and (iii) the presence of barriers to spread such as a high nonhost component and drastic slope increases. Tree mortality from dwarf mistletoe averaged 0.6% (range, 0–1.8%) and was much lower than mortality from other causes. On average, 9.3% of the trees had large dwarf mistletoe caused swellings on the lower third of the bole.
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1985-02-01
    Description: Periodic growth and volume losses in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugamenziesii (Mirb.) Franco) trees in one stand defoliated four times in their lifetime by western spruce budworm (Choristoneuraoccidentalis (Freeman)) are reported. Losses were calculated by comparing periodic growth for the years of reduced ring increment with potential growth estimated using the IMPACT growth loss program. Proportional losses in stem radius and cross-sectional area remained approximately constant or declined slightly from tree top to base; losses differed at all stem levels among the infestations. Average gross volume losses per tree relative to the potential volume the trees should have reached at the end of each loss period were 17, 15, 8, and 13% for the 1920's, 1940's, 1950's, and 1970's infestations, respectively. In the last infestation, losses ranged from 9% in trees defoliated from 1 to 50%, to 18% in trees defoliated 91–100%. Cumulative tree volume losses, calculated by adjusting growth during all loss periods to their potential values, were estimated to be 44% of the potential volume the trees should have reached by 1977 had the trees never been defoliated. On a per hectare basis, the 1970's infestation in this stand caused an estimated 60 m3 (18%) loss, comprising 40 m3 (12%) owing to tree mortality and 20 m3 (6%) of growth deficit in the surviving trees.
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 1984-08-01
    Description: Growth patterns of western hemlock, Tsugaheterophylla (Raf.) Sarg. infected with dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobiumtsugense (Rosendahl) G. N. Jones, were studied by stem analysis. The volume increment versus age relationships of average trees were used to project growth and evaluate volume losses. Based on a particular assumption of growth loss ratios between infection classes, volume losses in moderately and severely infected trees by the age of 80 years were conservatively estimated at 15 and 25%, respectively, with respect to comparable healthy trees. As these estimates were based on projection of growth curves of average trees, confidence intervals were not calculated. Healthy trees selected from a different part of the stand generally exhibited patterns of establishment and early growth which differed from the infected trees to an extent which invalidated their use as controls for infected tree growth. Moderately infected trees were more comparable to severely infected trees from the same part of the stand. The variety of growth patterns within stands is discussed in relation to the use of the stand as a sampling unit.
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    Publication Date: 1997-05-01
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