Bronze Birch Borer

• Main Authors: S. A. Katovich, A. S. Munson, J. Ball, D. Mccullough
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Rarely attacked; British Columbia; Canada; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.175.8139; http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/bbb/bbb.pdf

native to North America. Records from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s describe widespread damage to ornamental birches, especially in the Northeastern United States and Canada. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, the bronze birch borer was widely reported to be associated with dying birch trees in forests an...