C. Wayne Berisford

TL;DR: A randomized complete block experiment was performed to measure the effect of prescribed, dormant-season burns of three different levels of severity (measured as fuel consumption and soil surface heating) on subsequent insect infestation and mortality of mature longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The importance of the complete host/plant complex for attraction of R. xylophagorum to its host’s habitat is shown and a possible role for particular odors from uninfested host plant tissue in directing foraging parasitoids away from locations with few or no hosts is suggested.

TL;DR: Whereas the laboratory olfactometer data suggest that bark beetle fungal associates may enhance attraction of some parasitoids, bioassays with associate-free hosts indicate that associate-produced are not required for short-range host location and parasitization.

TL;DR: Female white pine cone beetles attacking second-year cones of eastern white pine,Pinus strobus L., produced a sex-specific pheromone that attracted conspecific males in laboratory bioassays and to field traps, and work in Georgia and Canada confirmed that the same isomers of pityol and spiroacetal are present in two distinct and widely separated populations of C. coniperda.

TL;DR: The Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock), is one of the most common forest insects in the eastern United States and is generally clear except for its relationship with R. bushnelli Miller, thought by some to be a subspecies.