RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Response of the Bronze Birch Borer to Pruning Wounds on Paper Birch
JF Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
FD International Society of Arboriculture
SP 294
OP 297
DO 10.48044/jauf.1992.056
VO 18
IS 6
A1 John Ball
YR 1992
UL http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/18/6/294.abstract
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.