2013 CONNECTICUT STATE PEST LIST General Specific Found in Climate Host Sci. Name Common Name Organism organism Nat'l List US or General Commodity Hosts Compatibility Relevance Type type CANADA fruit trees, greenhouse, Summer fruit tortrix apple, pear, cherry, grape, lilac, elm, Adoxophyes orana insect moth High High TRUE FALSE nursery, maple syrup, moth maple, birch, willow, etc. wineries

Agrilus biguttatus Oak splendor beetle insect beetle High High TRUE FALSE forestry, nursery oak, chestnut, beech

nursery, landscape, mainly ash, but experimentally elm, Agrilus planipennis Emerald ash borer insect beetle High High TRUE TRUE forest hickory, and walnut intercep maple, birch, cryptomeria, beech, Rough shouldered commodit ted in landscape, nursery, Anoplophora chinensis insect beetle High High ash, hibiscus, ilex, lindera, platanus, longhorned beetle y & tax. WA forest poplars, prunus, quercus,willow, elm 2001, HI

Anoplophora Asian longhorned landscape, nursery, most known hardwoods, including insect beetle High High TRUE TRUE glabripennis beetle forest maple, willow, poplar

Variegated golden apple, plum,cherry, oak, maple, ash, Archips xylosteana insect moth High High AHP Canada fruit, nursery, landscape tortrix elm, linden, dogwood

Cylindrocladium boxwood, pachysandra: japanese and Boxwood Blight pathogen fungus High High Economic TRUE nursery, landscape pseudonaviculatum native fruit, vegetable, prefers Asteraceae, Rosaceae, Light brown apple Epiphyas postvittana insect moth High High TRUE TRUE greenhouse, nursery, Fabaceae, Polygonaceae, has very moth wineries wide host range

forestry, christmas tree, fir, spruce, pine (soft & hard), douglas Hylobius abietis Large pine weevil insect beetle High High Pine FALSE nursery fir, juniper, birch, maple, beech

Lesser spruce shoot NY, OH, nursery, forestry, spruce, pine (soft & hard), fir, douglas Hylurgops palliatus insect beetle High High Additional beetle PA christmas trees fir, juniper

European grape vine fruit trees, greenhouse, Grape, cornus, pyrus, prunus, malus, Lobesia botrana insect moth High High TRUE TRUE moth nursery, vineyards ligustrum, potato, soft hardwoods

Lymantria dispar (Asian broad host range, prefers larch and Asian gypsy moth insect moth High High TRUE TRUE greenhouse, nursery strain) broadleaf trees

Monilia polystroma Asiatic brown rot pathogen fungus High High AHP FALSE stone, pome fruit peaches, nectarine, plum, apple

Monochamus alternatus Japanese pine sawyer insect beetle High High EWB FALSE forestry, nursery, tree fruit pine, spruce, apple, larch, beech, fir

wide host range, highly susceptible water species include Quercus, Phytophthora ramorum Ramorum Blight pathogen High High TRUE TRUE greenhouse, nursery mold Rhododendron, Kalmia, Pieris, Viburnum, Syringa, Camellia

Prunus, including plum, peach, cherry, fruit, vegetable, apricot, also Chenopodium, sweet PLUM POX PPV pathogen virus High High TRUE TRUE greenhouse, nursery clover, Nicotiana, Physalis, Petunia, clover nursery, landscape, Platypus quercivorus Oak ambrosia beetle insect beetle High High AHP FALSE oak forest

Tetropium castaneum Black spruce beetle insect beetle High High TRUE FALSE forestry, christmas trees fir, spruce, pine, oak

Brown spruce Nova Tetropium fuscum insect beetle High High TRUE Scotia, N christmas trees, forestry spruce, fir, larch, pine longhorn beetle Brunswick fruit, vineyards, grape, peach, plum, cherry, corn, oak Thaumatotibia leucotreta False codling moth insect moth Med High TRUE FALSE vegetables acorns, yucca oak, maple, birch, beech, ash, juniper, nursery, forestry, tree Tortrix viridana Green oak tortrix insect moth High High oak FALSE spruce, poplar, cherry, peach, fruit rhododendron, willow

Tropilaelaps clareae Bee mite insect mite Low High TRUE FALSE honey bees honey bees Trypodendron European hardwood oak, alder, maple, birch, beech, ash, insect beetle High High TRUE Canada forestry, domesticum ambrosia beetle apple, willow