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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN RESISTANCE TO WHITE PINE WEEVIL (PISSODES STROBI) (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE) BY EASTERN WHITE PINE (PINUS STROBUS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

P. W. Garrett
P. W. Garrett
Affiliation:
Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Durham, New Hampshire
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Abstract

Weevil damage on 12 sources of eastern white pine was measured. Differences between sources at age 13 were significant, but all sources were heavily weeviled. It is doubtful that sources resistant to the white pine weevil will be located.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 2 , February 1973 , pp. 347 - 350
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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