pine sawyer

These migrants such as the leaf miner moth, the Japanese pine sawyer beetle and the Asian longhorn beetle coming in from imported wood are devastating British trees.

The Japanese pine sawyer Monochamus alternatus Hope (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious pest management concern in stands of pines.

A common long-homed beetle in New York is the white-spotted pine sawyer (Monochamus scutellatus).

The long-horned pine sawyer beetles (Monochamus alternatus) are the main culprits for the spread of pinewood nematodes from infected pines to healthy or stressed pines.

The vector for this parasite is the Japanese pine sawyer beetle Monochamus alternatus, which disperses the nematode to healthy trees [1-8].

Department of Agriculture left a message yesterday assuring him that, based on a photograph published in the Telegram & Gazette, the insect was a whitespotted pine sawyer beetle, not the invasive Asian longhorned beetle that has led to a massive eradication effort in Worcester.

Pine wilt disease is caused by the pinewood nemarode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Plate 1) (Steiner et Buhrer) Nickle (Kiyohara and Tokushige 1971), which is vectored by a pine sawyer beetle native to Japan, Monochamus alternatus Hope (Plate 2) (Mamiya and Enda 1972, Morimoto and Iwasaki 1972).

Pine wilt disease (PWD) is caused by the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Nickle, which is vectored by the Japanese pine sawyer beetle Monochamus alternatus.

The Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is transmitted from pine tree to pine tree by a bark beetle called the pine sawyer (Monochamus alternatus) either when the sawyer beetles are fed on the bark and phloem of twigs of susceptible live trees (primary transmission) or when the female beetles lay eggs (oviposition) in freshly cut timber or dying trees (secondary transmission).

CUTLINE: Asian longhorned beetle or whitespotted pine sawyer? How to tell them apart

The insect may be a whitespotted pine sawyer beetle, most commonly misidentified as an Asian longhorned beetle, according to information compiled by the University of Vermont.