This thesis addressed the potential of endemic predaceous and parasitic arthropods of
the Hood River Valley, Oregon to suppress the pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola F8rster.
Natural enemies adequately suppressed psylla in three of seven unsprayed orchards of
differing vegetational settings, orchard age, and size. Relatively few psylla natural enemies
dispersed...
Published April 1977. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Since its discovery in Oregon in 1946, the pear psylla, Psylla pyricola Forster, has become the most serious insect pest of pear. Damage to pear trees include the transmission of pear decline disease which has caused losses of trees, injection of a phytotoxic toxin resulting in tree shock and injury,...
Published August 1962. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog