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White Spruce Seed Loss Caused by Insects in Interior Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. A. Werner
R. A. Werner
Affiliation:
Northern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Juneau, Alaska
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Abstract

Insects caused serious damage to cones and seeds of white spruce during one of the five years of this study. A new seed and cone insect, Pegohylemyia sp., was recorded for the first time from Alaska. This insect destroyed an average of 50% of the seeds per cone.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 96 , Issue 11 , November 1964 , pp. 1462 - 1464
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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