different oak diseases in south east

[cody bi]

I am having to write a paper and need some ideas for this paper in my Integrated pest management class. The paper has to be on some type of disease, pest, or pathogen. i was thinking about doing something on things that oak trees in the south east since i am located in the upstate of South Caroline and go to Clemson South Carolina thanks for the help!

 

[Jason Douglas]

Oak Wilt
Sudden Oak Death
Two lined chestnut borer
Cynipid wasp galls
Bacterial leaf scorch
Tubakia leaf spot- particularly burr oak blight variety
Lime induced chlorisis

 

[ATH]

Few additional thoughts (all of Jason's are good ones...):

I have a book that I can't find online (most USFS stuff is out there) called "Oak Pests: A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, Air Pollution and Chemical Injury". It is General Report SA-GR11 from March of 1980 (guess that explains why it is not online!). I'm guessing I picked it up at the Forest Service document library in Delaware, OH (a good trip if you ever have opportunity). I would suspect it is in a forestry library of some sort at Clemson. It is available on Amazon. In searching for that, I found a document (actually presentation) from the University of Tennessee on insects and mites of oaks.

Second thought...Oak decline. You'll learn a lot (and maybe impress your professor asking you to cover a single pest). This is what we call a disease complex. There are predisposing factors (an oak tree planted off-site, for example, leading to the chlorosis Jason mentioned), inciting factors (perhaps a drought), and contributing factors (two-lined chestnut borer and armillaria move in). Alone, none of those would kill the tree...but combined and the tree enters a decline spiral that can be difficult or impossible to pull it out of. More commonly discussed in traditional forestry than arboriculture or the landscape setting. Here is a good USFS primer on oak decline.

Good luck!

 

[cody bi]

Few additional thoughts (all of Jason's are good ones...):

I have a book that I can't find online (most USFS stuff is out there) called "Oak Pests: A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, Air Pollution and Chemical Injury". It is General Report SA-GR11 from March of 1980 (guess that explains why it is not online!). I'm guessing I picked it up at the Forest Service document library in Delaware, OH (a good trip if you ever have opportunity). I would suspect it is in a forestry library of some sort at Clemson. It is available on Amazon. In searching for that, I found a document (actually presentation) from the University of Tennessee on insects and mites of oaks.

Second thought...Oak decline. You'll learn a lot (and maybe impress your professor asking you to cover a single pest). This is what we call a disease complex. There are predisposing factors (an oak tree planted off-site, for example, leading to the chlorosis Jason mentioned), inciting factors (perhaps a drought), and contributing factors (two-lined chestnut borer and armillaria move in). Alone, none of those would kill the tree...but combined and the tree enters a decline spiral that can be difficult or impossible to pull it out of. More commonly discussed in traditional forestry than arboriculture or the landscape setting. Here is a good USFS primer on oak decline.

Good luck!

Thanks for all the good info! Hopefully i can find some good information on everything