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Pine sawyer beetle

Pine sawyer beetle2019-02-28T13:06:43+00:00

Project Description

Cerambycid, xylophagous, borer beetle.

The adult measures 15-25 mm; it is blackish brown, covered with greyish spots that form three whitish bands. Its antennas are longer than its body, especially in males (Fig. a and Fig. b).

The larvae can reach 40 mm; they are cream-coloured, elongated, slightly flattened (unlike Coraebus bupréstidos) and with their body divided into 10 segments (Fig. c).

Adults appear in spring, feeding on the tender buds of conifers. The females lay the eggs in small holes they make in the bark. After about two weeks, the eggs hatch and the larvae come out, digging galleries inside the wood to feed (Fig. c and Fig. d). In September, they finish their larval development and they form the pupa, which will outlast the whole winter. In the following spring/summer, the adults will emerge through a hole created previously that was clogged with wood fibres in the larval instar.

It has an annual generation, which can be semi-annual in especially cold areas or years.

Direct damage is not very important as it affects dead or weakened trees. However, indirectly, it causes more serious damage, since it transmits pine wood nematode(Bursaphelenchus xylophilus). This nematode causes wilt and death of the pine specimen in less than three months.

The pine wood nematode spends the winter inside the pine wood and in spring, they go inside the cerambycid (in the pupa or imago stage). When these adults emerge, they feed on small branches. Then, the larvae of the pine wood nematodes penetrate the pine wood through the wounds, through the resin ducts, where they feed on parenchymal and epithelial cells. This causes vascular collapse and the subsequent death of the tree.

Carry out preventive treatments in spring using plant endotherapy (ENDOterapia Vegetal®) against Monochamus to avoid the infection by pine wood nematode.

Project Details

Common name:
PINE SAWYER BEETLE.
Scientific name:
Monochamus galloprovincialis.
Affected plants:
Conifers in general, preferably pines.

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