Claim · model-written summary
Intense untimed pruning favored Nidularia by displacing Kermes.
- Taxon
- Quercus ilex L.
Quercus ilext0 - Treatment
- Intense and not timed pruninge0
- Interactor
- Nidulariae0pest
- Outcome
- favours Nidulariae0
- Qualifier
- by displacing Kermes from the host plante0
KermesNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Quercus ilex L.”
e0“Intense and not timed pruning favours Nidularia by displacing Kermes from the host plant”
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 Kermes vermilio outbreaks can kill young holly oaks and damage adult trees.
- 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.