In 2020 and 2021, three species of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) were established on Macedonian pine ( Pinus peuce ) in the region Vihren hut Pirin Mts. Branches, damaged by snow collected studied laboratory conditions. As a result, 24 specimens Ips amitinus reared 81 I. , Crypturgus pusillus Pityogenes chalcographus 2021. The most abundant was with 75.2%, followed P. (21...

Thepecanweevil,Curculio caryae (Horn), and its primaryhost, pecan,Carya illinoinensis (Wagenheim) K. Kochare indigenous to North America east of the Rocky Mountains. This review is presented to describe the biology, life stages, crop injury, monitoring approaches, and primary control strategies currently used for pecan weevil in pecan. Suggested economic thresholds are extrapolated from several...

Cues used by parasitoids to detect habitat of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), were investigated by observing parasitoid attraction to logs infested with D. ponderosae, logs inoculated with one or both of the symbiotic fungi of D. ponderosae (Grosmannia clavigera (Rob.-Jeffr. & R.W. Davidson) Zipfel, Z.W. de Beer & M.J. Wingf. (Ophiostomatac...

Two genera and nine species of Peridinetini are recognised in the West Indies; four of the species are newly described. Peridinetus Schönherr is represented in the Greater Antilles by P. concentricus (Olivier), P. decipiens Prena sp. n., P. fuscosignum Prena sp. n., P. poeyi Jacquelin du Val stat. res., P. roeselii (Boheman) and P. sexguttatus (Fabricius) comb. n. and Palliolatrix Prena in the ...