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<font color="#800000">'''''Pissodes strobi'''''</font> (Peck) - (white pine weevil)
 
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The weevil is a serious pest of young spruce trees in North America. Sitka spruce is particularly vulnerable. The larvae mine and destroy the apical leader causing deformation of the trees.
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The weevil is a serious pest of young spruce trees in North America. Sitka spruce (''Picea sitchensis'') is particularly vulnerable. The adults feed on the upper stem sections and deposit their eggs there under the cortex. The larvae feed on the phloem as well as on the adjacent cambium, destroying the apical leader. The attacks cause deformation of the trees when a lateral branch becomes the new apical leader. This destroys the commercial value of the tree and can lead to tree mortality.
  
 
For details see the respective page in [http://wiki.bugwood.org/Pissodes_strobi BugwoodWiki].
 
For details see the respective page in [http://wiki.bugwood.org/Pissodes_strobi BugwoodWiki].
 
 
 
 
 
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Author(s): Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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Pissodes strobi (Peck) - (white pine weevil)

The weevil is a serious pest of young spruce trees in North America. Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is particularly vulnerable. The adults feed on the upper stem sections and deposit their eggs there under the cortex. The larvae feed on the phloem as well as on the adjacent cambium, destroying the apical leader. The attacks cause deformation of the trees when a lateral branch becomes the new apical leader. This destroys the commercial value of the tree and can lead to tree mortality.

For details see the respective page in BugwoodWiki.

Vernacular names
• Deutsch: Strobenrüsselkäfer
• English: white pine weevil
Sitka spruce weevil
western spruce weevil
spruce leader weevil
• Español: gorgojo del pino Weymouth
• Français: charançon du pin blanc