Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) as an alternate host for spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana): dendrochronological evidence from Maine, USA

✒️ Poppe et al.
🔗 https://ow.ly/seIT50XSqaQ #budworm

Long-term effects of spruce budworm outbreak and insecticide protection on forest recovery and structure in Eastern Quebec
✒️ Fuentealba, Dupont, and Bauce
🔗 https://ow.ly/epLZ50XSpV3 #budworm

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Come from away: Reconstructing a long-range migratory flight of spruce #budworm moths to Newfoundland, Canada
doi.org/10.1111/een.70011

#InsectMigration #SBW #Choristoneura
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

In the past we learnt how #insects use their #metabolism to #beattheheat using unique models like the #butterfly & the #budworm

👇🏽 thenode.biologists.com/tales-of-met...

Plant partnership: Fungi help spruce trees fight off budworm attacks University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an alliance that could lead to more resilient forests.

#Fungi help spruce trees fight off #budworm attacks ...

| #insects | #Endophytes | #microbes | #toxins | By @ualberta.bsky.social‬ via @sciencex.bsky.social‬

#Bay-breastedWarblers nest about 16 ft up in northern Canada’s spruce, their chestnut plumage flickering among the needles. Their numbers boom with #spruce #budworm outbreaks—and crash or even vanish once the #caterpillar pulses fade.

#birds
#nature
#migration
#photography

This gene encodes the enzyme that catalyses the conversion of glucosides to the active forms piceol and pungenol, which confer #resistance against herbivory of spruce #budworm.

#SummerJob #StudentJob #budworm #forestry #AtlanticCanada #NewBrunswick

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