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THE BIOLOGY and CONTROL OP the EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH DISSERTATION Presented in P a R Tia L F U Lfillm En T of Th E Requiremen THE BIOLOGY AND CONTROL OP THE EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Riilosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State U n iv e r s ity By WILLIAM ELDON MILLER. B. S ., M. Sc, **** The Ohio State University 1966 Approved by* ✓>x A d visor Department of Zoology and Entomology ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wiah to eaqpream slncereflt gratitude to Dr# Ralph B. Neiswander, my field adTleor; Dr. Alvmh Peterson, my academic advisor; and to Dr. Claud R. Neiswander. The mature, friendly counsel, the generous assistance, and the infinite foztearanee tendered me by these men made my research s^prentioeship not only a rewarding experience, but a pleasant one. I also give them heartfelt thanks for their demon­ strated interest in my personal welfare# Others who have aided m aterially during the course of my research are Mr. B# D# Marshall, Dr# C, R, Weaver, Miss Florence Switter, Dr# E. T# Hibbs, Mrs. Helen Enlow, and Mr# C. L# Robey. I am much in­ debted to these persons, and also to those cited in the text who freely supplied unpublished data and identified specimens# Finally, I affectionately dedicate this dissertation to my wife, Vem ette Erioson M iller, who, in addition to being extremely helpful with its preparation, made personal sacrifices -Uiat it might be com­ pleted and foxmally presented# - i i - CONTENTS Introduction........................................... 1 History and Distribution in Ohio.. 2 Hosts and Naturo of Injury .................................................................................... 4 Seasonal History ........................................ 6 Parasitisation..... ......................................................................................................... 23 Other Pine Moths in Q tito.................................................................................................... 27 Control Experiments with Synthetic Or^mloInsecticides............ 28 Control by Removal of Infested Shoots..................... 40 Fundamental Biological Considerations Bearing on Control Procedure. 41 Summary. .............. 44 Literature Cited ...................................... 46 - i l l - LIST OF TABLES Table 1. PreoTlpositlon* ovlpoeltlon, and postoTlpoaltion periods of mated and unmated female moths............ 6 Table 2» Mortality between August 1951 and May 1962 in the 1951 test plots (Tuscarawas County) 16 Table 3. Pupation and emergenoe records....................................... 20 Table 4. Spring parasitisation of the shoot sioth detenolned from insectary emergenoe records... ....................... 26 Table 6. Comparative effectiveness of different treatments applied in summer (I960). Initial and single appli­ c a tio n s were made J u ly 3 - 6 | second a p p lic a tio n s followed one week later....................... S3 Table 6. Comparative effeotiveness of different spray treat­ ments applied in summer. Applications were made June 29, 1961.............................. 34 Table 7. Comparative effectiveness of spray treatments applied by airplane in summer. Applications were made June 2 9 , 1951...................................... 36 Table 8. Results of DDT applications made at intervals before and after initial hatching. Tiro pounds of toxicant was used per 100 gallons of water in 1961 and one pound in 1 9 6 2 ...... ................... 37 Table 9. Comparative effectiveness of different high volume spray treatments applied in spring. Applications were made A p r il 1 9 , 1952.............................. 38 Table 10. Results of DDT spray applications made at intervals during resumption of larval activity in spring (1952). Sprays contained 2 pounds of toxicant per 100 gallons ..................................... 38 Table 11. Results of DDT spray applications made at intervals before and during resumption of larval activity in spring (1963) .............................................................................................. 39 - i v - LIST OP ILLÜSTRATIOHS Figure 1* Range of the European pine ahoot moth in Ohio by counties. Cross hatching shows range; dark shading shows counties in ehlch the field studies were oonducted (from left to right Wayne, Tuscarawas, and Carroll)................................. 3 Figure 2. Egg shells on a red pine needle from which larvae had recently hatched. All eggs found on needles were located on the fla t s id e ...,.............. 7 Figure 3. A tent spun on a bud by a recently hatched larva.... 11 Figure 4. Frequency distribution of larval head capsule measurements ............................................................ 12 Figure 6. Mean number of living larvae per infested tip throu^ the cold season in an infestation in Wayne County* Solid line represents 1950-51, broken line 1 9 6 1 -6 2 ........................................................................................................... 17 Figure 6. A tent spun to a bud by a larva in the early spring* 18 Figure 7. Record of moth emergence in the insectary. Solid line represents 1950, broken line 1961, and dot-dash l in e 1962 ...................................................................................................... 21 •niE BIOLOGY AITL CONTROL 0^ -nffi EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT 1Î0TH Williaan E. î/dller INTRODUCTION At the p rtf sent time, tli.e European pine shoot moth, Rhyacionia buoliana (Schiffennuller) i/, is the prime insect menace to reforesta­ tion and Christmas tree growing in a large part of Ohio* Because of tl.is post, the planting of red or Koiway pine, ?inus resInosa Alton, has become a hazardous silvicultural venture, and leas desirable trees are being used. Tho in ju r y i n f l ic te d b y the shoot moth is the severing of needles and the tunnelling of buds and shoots* Bud and shoot injury iniiibits growth and causes deformation of trees. Rarely, if ever, are trees killed by the shoot moth, however* This paper presents the results of laboratory and field studies made in Ohio during the fo u r seasons from 1950 through 1953* Reviews of previous literature are contained in the papers by Butovitsch (1936), Friend and West (1933), and Brooks and Brown (1936)* Identifications of tho insect species mentioned in this investigation were made by specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution as follows; Lepidoptera, J. F. Gates Clarke; Bethylidae, K. V* Krombeln; Chalcidoidea, B* D. Burks; Ichneumonidae, L* M* Wnlkley; Braconidae, C. F. W. Jtiesebeck. Pines were identified by the author. ly Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae. — 1 — HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION IN OHIO The insect vk-as 1‘irst discovered in Ohio in 1915, shortly after its first recorded appeai-ance in the United States on Long Island (Busck, 1915)* Immediate steps were taken to eradicate this early infestation wV.ich occurred in a nursery in the middle eastern part of the state (Harrison County)* For the nej>t 13 years, if the pest was present in CSiio, it attracted no attention for it is not mentioned again in the available records until 1928, In that year J. S* Houser diagnosed injury to pines near Cleveland as probably caused by the European pine shoot moth and in the following year the insect wus positively identified at the U* S* National Museum from that area* By about 1940 it was present throughout the northern part of the state (Paton et al*, 1944)* In 1950 a survey was carried out to establish the exact geographic range of tho shoot moth in Ohio (McElroy, 1950)* Accordingly, red pine plantations in 137 townships in 23 counties were examined* The survey showed th a t th e shoot moth was p resen t in Ohio throughout the area from Lal:e Erie south to the 40th parallel ( Figure 1), Hie ma­ jority of the infestations were encountered in the eastern half of this area where pine plantations according to Paton et al, (1944) are correspondingly larger and more numer<xis* 2y/ Correspondence in the files of the Department of Entomology, Ohio A g ric u ltu ra l Experiment S ta tio n . — 2 • — 3 42 4 2 - ,^<iv 5 - { {\rj%4N,« j i _ vSiv!^'"J«c;5Srî 1 ,-f ! - I xW 41 - >SS>yX'‘^lV>v-,s\ ^ y *«, ' t -41 I ^ I KyC%r4 ^ ^ t ' <-"> } ■'> Wv's'C^^VHX'S'' ' 40 - -4 0 ..J - 39 * 39 *- Figur© 1. Range of the European pine shoot moth in Oliio by counties. Cross hatching shows range; dark shading shows counties in which the field studies were conducted (from left to right Wayne, Tuscarawas, and Carroll). HOSTS AND NATURE OF INJURY The species comnonly found &a hosts of the shoot moth in Ohio are red pine, Swiss mountain pine, Pinus mi go Turra, and Scotch pine, P* sylTeetris Linnatms. White pine, P. strobus Linnaeus, has been found infested occasionally when growing near severely infested red and Scotch pine trees. However, the insect was observed to com­ plete its development only in unusually vigorous shoots of this s p e c ie s . The newly hatched shoot moth larvae boro into and feed within current growth needle sheaths. Needle damage is most conspicuous In late summer. At this time needles Ihat were attacked are brown and dislodged, and they hang hajhasardly about the trees. As the larvae grow they move to buds which they partially or totally hollow out. Injury to buds can usually be observed beginning the second week after hatching, and the number of buds injured increases thereafter until the onset of cool weather. During the summer a single larva may feed in more thsin one bud. In the spring when the overwintered larvae resume their feeding, new buds and elongating shoots are bored into euid tunnelled. At this
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