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Detecting Forest Insect Pests in Canada

Problem Addressed: Review of Blair McGugan's 1956 paper on the origins and development of the Canadian Forest Insect Survey.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Describe capabilities of detecting forest insect pests

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Alkali Solubility as an Indication of Decay in Diseased Wood

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Impact on forest birds of the 1975 spruce budworm spray operation in New Brunswick

Problem Addressed: Effect of phosphamidon and fenitrothion on song birds.

Key Findings: Several million singing male birds, mostly canopy feeders, were killed.

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Spruce Budworm (Chorisoneura fumiferana) pheromone chemistry and behavioral responses to pheromone components and analogs

Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Review the sex pheromone chemistry and pheromone-mediated behavior of the spruce budworm and related coniferophagous budworms.

Key Findings: Demonstrates an apparently normal male flight responses to a pheromone analog.

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Spruce Budworm in Maine: Results of the1985 Project, Biological Conditions in 1985 and Expected Infestation Conditions for 1986

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Impact of 1985 forest insecticide spraying on Newfoundland pollinating insects

Problem Addressed: Insecticide aminocarb effects

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Study effect of aerial application of the insecticide aminocarb on native pollinating insects was studied in a commercial forest region norther of Gander, Newfoundland, during the summer of 1985.

Key Findings: No aminocarb spray on insect pollinators was noted.

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The Battle of the Budworm, An Expirement in Forest Management

Problem Addressed: Spread of the SBW in New Brunswick during the 1950s

Goal(s)/Objective(s): 1950s Forest management to stop the budworm

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The Spruce Budworm and the Spruce Coneworm: Behavior on Red Spruce and Insecticide Efficacy

Problem Addressed: Spruce budworm and spruce coneworm damage to red spruce in Maine

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Study of feeding and concealment behaviors of spruce budworm, and spruce coneworm, on red spruce in Maine in 1984.

Key Findings: Feeding and concealment behaviors were similar for both species.

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The effets of Zectran on the parasitoids of the Spruce budworm, Choristoneura Fumiferana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Investigate the effects of Zectran on spruce budworm parasitoids

Key Findings: The lowest absolute numbers were found in tachinids and E. ontario.

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Parasitization of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) by Brachymeria intermedia (Nees) (Hymenoptera: Chlaciddidae)

Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Study the use of the parasitoid Brachymeria intermedia to attack spruce budworm

Key Findings: The percentage mortality is considerably higher than the total native pupal parasitoid complex.

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