Claim · model-written summary
Kermes vermilio outbreaks can kill young holly oaks and damage adult trees.
- Taxon
- Quercus ilex L.
Quercus ilext0 - Interactor
- Kermes vermilioe0pest
- Outcome
- lethal to young holly oaks and strongly damage adult treese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Quercus ilex L.”
e0“Kermes vermilio and Nidularia pulvinata severe outbreaks are lethal to young holly oaks and strongly damage adult trees.”
Title
Roberto, Roberta; Diana, Laura; Russo, Valentina; et al. Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) 2018. doi:10.15162/0425-1016/447
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Nidularia pulvinata outbreaks can kill young holly oaks and damage adult trees.
- Observation Both insects invaded previously uninfested Q. ilex in Bari.
- Observation K. vermilio preferentially infested host twigs.
- Observation N. pulvinata occupied the trunk and main branches.
- Observation Both scale insects induced dieback.
- Observation Nidularia additionally damaged the trunk.
- Intervention effect Tree injection provided moderate control.
- Intervention effect Intense spring pruning and subsequent resprouting benefited tree health briefly.
- Observation New sprouts were quickly colonized and intensely infested by crawlers.
- Intervention effect Pruning left more Nidularia on the plant.
- Intervention effect Pruning removed most Kermes from the plant.
- Mechanism Intense untimed pruning favored Nidularia by displacing Kermes.