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Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Woodpeckers And The Southern Pine Beetle, James Kroll, Richard N. Conner, Robert R. Fleet Jan 1980

Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Woodpeckers And The Southern Pine Beetle, James Kroll, Richard N. Conner, Robert R. Fleet

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In 1974 the U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated the Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, an interagency effort that concentrated on the Douglas-fur tussock moth in the West, on the southern pine beetle in the South, and on the gypsy moth in the Northeast. The work reported in this publication was funded in part by the Program. This handbook is one in a series on the southern pine beetle.


Key To The Wood-Decaying Polyporaceae Of The East Texas Region, Steve Bishop, W. T. Mcgrath Jan 1978

Key To The Wood-Decaying Polyporaceae Of The East Texas Region, Steve Bishop, W. T. Mcgrath

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The family includes those pore fungi whose fruiting bodies are tough, leathery or woody and whose pore layer usually cannot be separated easily from the context. The pores on the undersurface are only exterior openings of tubes bearing spores and in each species these tube mouths, or pores, are a definite shape and size. Occasionally pore walls will break up giving the appearance of teeth or gills. Fruiting bodies can be sessile, stemmed, effused-reflexed or resupinate (Fig . 2). Members of the family can be either perennial or annual, with the annual species growing during the summer and maturing that …


The Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis Zimm, 1961-1971, Jack E. Coster Jun 1972

The Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis Zimm, 1961-1971, Jack E. Coster

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In the last decade, since the appearance of the comprehensive reviews of southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm. (Coleoptera :Scolytidae ) *, literature by Thatcher (1960) and Dixon and Osgood (1961), much research progress on the insect has been realized. This review condenses reports of research on the insect published since 1961.