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Index of Subjects Much more info here: https://www.halifax.ca/energy-environment/environment/documents/2012Sweeney_Anderson_etalOrchestesfagi.pdf It took our beeches several years of defoliation before they finally died. I suppose that as long as there are beeches reachable from the infected area that the beetle will continue to spread. Peter Payzant On 2017-03-12 6:19 PM, Nick Hill wrote: > tell us more...I only know the beech bark cancre involving a scale > insect and a fungus. And a legend that Queen Victoria bestowed it us. > Nick > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 6:00 PM, pce <pce@accesswave.ca> wrote: >> Beech? >> >> It would be nice to see them back in our forests, but an introduced insect pest, the "Beech Leaf-mining Weevil" (Orchestes fagi) has killed off all the beeches here in Waverley. Some sort of biological control would be needed for this, presumably. >> >> Peter Payzant >> >>> On Mar 12, 2017, at 16:06, Nick Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> There are things one can do. Donna has worked w getting clean genotypes of american beech that are not cancred with the beech bark disease. Now we need to make a conservation case for beech forests and start a program like the Garry Oak on the west coast. Some say we drop the beech from consideration as a potential old growth due to the disease but increasingly I am seeing clean beech in the Valley...
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