Kenneth E. Gibson's Images
Title: EntomologistOrganization: USDA Forest Service
Unit: Forest Health Protection - Missoula Field Office
Country: United States
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| Image | Subject Name | Scientific Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1241467 | pine engraver | Ips pini | Gallery pattern with the central nuptial chamber and egg gallery branches. |
| 1241450 | red turpentine beetle | Dendroctonus valens | Fan shaped larval gallery pattern with an adult beetle. |
| 2254025 | red turpentine beetle | Dendroctonus valens | egg gallery |
| 2254027 | western balsam bark beetle | Dryocoetes confusus | |
| 2254016 | larch engraver | Scolytus laricis | |
| 2254014 | western pine beetle | Dendroctonus brevicomis | bark sloughing off of trees |
| 2254015 | western pine beetle | Dendroctonus brevicomis | pitch tubes |
| 2252084 | Douglas-fir beetle | Dendroctonus pseudotsugae | elevated, panoramic view showing red top trees in stand |
| 2252079 | mountain pine beetle | Dendroctonus ponderosae | boring dust on lodge pole pine |
| 2251056 | lodgepole pine needle cast | Lophodermella concolor | older stand with injury |
| 1241518 | lodgepole terminal weevil | Pissodes terminalis | |
| 1241514 | white pine weevil | Pissodes strobi | Adults near exit holes |
| 1241589 | needle blight of larch | Meria laricis | Larch needle cast causes yellow spots which become red-brown, begins infecting emerging needles in the spring, and can continue to reinfect as long as rainfall creates suitable conditions. |
| 1241470 | Douglas-fir beetle | Dendroctonus pseudotsugae | Egg galleries are vertical and the larval galleries are in alternating groups. |
| 1241471 | Douglas-fir beetle | Dendroctonus pseudotsugae | Trees killed will have red crowns several months after a successful attack. |
| 2254020 | frost and winter injury (general) | in Glacier N.P. | |
| 1241476 | fir engraver | Scolytus ventralis | Top kill and tree mortality. |
| 1241733 | sequoia pitch moth | Synanthedon sequoiae | Pitch masses indicating entrance and feeding sites. |
| 1241516 | lodgepole terminal weevil | Pissodes terminalis | |
| 2254018 | ponderosa pine bark borer | Acanthocinus princeps | thinning in Ponderosa pine beetle management |
| 2254023 | pesticides | verbenone application for barkbeetle control | |
| 2254044 | cooley spruce gall adelgid | Adelges cooleyi | |
| 1241734 | sequoia pitch moth | Synanthedon sequoiae | Larva within the pitch mass. |
| 1241551 | western spruce budworm | Choristoneura freemani | Instar larvae web needles together to make silken nests in which they feed. |
| 1241555 | Douglas-fir tussock moth | Orgyia pseudotsugata | Eggs are held in masses by a gelatinous substance containing hairs from the female's body. |
| 1241525 | desication (wind burn) | Winter desiccation is common on high elevation sites. | |
| 1241446 | spruce beetle | Dendroctonus rufipennis | Bark flaking by woodpeckers is a good indication of spruce beetle attack. |
| 1241449 | red turpentine beetle | Dendroctonus valens | Large pitch tubes showing attack sites. Attacks are usually confined to lower 3 feet of bole. |
| 1241511 | gouty pitch midge | Cecidomyia piniinopis | Gouty pitch midge infests and kills shoots, usually of young pines. |
| 1241453 | western pine beetle | Dendroctonus brevicomis | Pines with bark flaked away by woodpeckers searching for larvae. |
| 1241460 | mountain pine beetle | Dendroctonus ponderosae | Pitch tubes and boring dust are usually evident at attack sites. |
| 1241466 | Ips engraver beetles | Ips spp. | Red-orange boring dust on bark of attacked pine |
| 2254019 | frost and winter injury (general) | in Glacier National Park | |
| 2254021 | frost and winter injury (general) | in Glacier - N.P. | |
| 2254028 | western balsam bark beetle | Dryocoetes confusus | showing red top trees in stand |
| 2254040 | Ips engraver beetles | Ips spp. | damaged limbs cut and piled for burning |
| 2252069 | mountain pine beetle | Dendroctonus ponderosae | lindgren funnel trap |
