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CARPENTER ANT (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) INDUCED WIND BREAKAGE IN NEW JERSEY SHADE TREES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. G. Fowler  and
R. B. Roberts
H. G. Fowler
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Economic Zoology, Cook College, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
R. B. Roberts
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Economic Zoology, Cook College, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
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Carpenter ants are indigenous to holarctic forests. Nests in standing trees begin at wound sites, and expand rapidly as workers gnaw galleries in the heartwood (Graham 1918; Anderson 1960). In forests, carpenter ants have been implicated in wind breakage of standing trees (Felt 1928; Schread 1952), yet the exact extent and nature of this relationship remains undocumented.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 114 , Issue 7 , July 1982 , pp. 649 - 650
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1982

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