Claim · model-written summary
New sprouts were quickly colonized and intensely infested by crawlers.
- Taxon
- Quercus ilex L.
Quercus ilext0 - Organ / stage
- New sproutse0
- Interactor
- wandering crawlerse0pest
- Outcome
- quickly colonisede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Quercus ilex L.”
e0“New sprouts are quickly colonised by wandering crawlers and became intensely infested.”
Title
Roberto, Roberta; Diana, Laura; Russo, Valentina; et al. Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) 2018. doi:10.15162/0425-1016/447
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- Observation Kermes vermilio outbreaks can kill young holly oaks and damage adult trees.
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- 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.
- 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.