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White Spruce Seed Loss Caused by Insects in Interior Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. A. Werner
Affiliation:
Northern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Juneau, Alaska

Abstract

Insects caused serious damage to cones and seeds of white spruce during one of the five years of this study. A new seed and cone insect, Pegohylemyia sp., was recorded for the first time from Alaska. This insect destroyed an average of 50% of the seeds per cone.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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