PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John Ball
TI  - Response of the Bronze Birch Borer to Pruning Wounds on Paper Birch
AID  - 10.48044/jauf.1992.056
DP  - 1992 Nov 01
TA  - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
PG  - 294--297
VI  - 18
IP  - 6
4099  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/18/6/294.short
4100  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/18/6/294.full
AB  - Healthy appearing paper birch trees were pruned at the beginning of the bronze birch borer’s emergence period. Some wounds were left exposed while others were treated with a commercial wound dressing. Bronze birch borer adults, particularly females, were attracted to fresh pruning wounds on paper birch. Treating the pruning wounds with a wound dressing did not reduce the wound’s attractiveness to the borers.