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SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE Outbreak—Related Volumes Harvested Fiscal Year 1975 Totals.

Cordwood conversion: Cord equals 75 cubic feet.

1/ Data for August not available

2/ No data available for this fiscal year.

STATE State Federal Federal ALABAMA 1,410 MBF 191 MBF 2,187 MBF 238 MBF 1709) MCE 18 MCF 2,914 MCF 38 MCF ARKANSAS 116 MBF a 302 MBF See 50 MCF ae 73 MCF oe GEORGIA 8,874 MBF 237 MBF 9,364 MBF 306 MBF 71 MCF 9 MCF 493 MCF L7-MGE LOUISIANA 321 MBF 947 MBF 354 MBF 1,014 MBF 7 MCF 47 MCF 8 MCF 57 MCE MISSISSIPPI 53 MBF 333 MBF 54 MBF 574 MBF 27 MCF 0 MCF 28 MCF O MCF NORTH 1/ MBF 82 MBF 2/ MBF 90 MBF CAROLINA 1/ MCF 28 MCF 2/ MCF 31 MCF SOUTH 2,807 MBF 483 MBF 2,888 MBF 635 MBF ~CAROLINA 2 Gee 50 MCF 2,446 MCF 112 MCF TENNESSEE 0 MBF 189 MBF O MBF 189 MBF O MCF 29 MCF 21 MCF 29 MCF TEXAS 1,774 MBF 2,245 MBF 4,365 MBF 5,080 MBF 50 MCF 101 MCF 125: MCE 2593MCK VIRGINIA 573 MBF O MBF 1,073 MBF O MBF 296 MCF 0 MCF So Mer O MCF to cco be 4,707 MBF 20,587 MBF 8,126 MBF Oi i ee ee een a Se oS OO ee oo, oo. Saze MCE 282 MCF 6,283 MCF 543 MCF

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SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE

Late summer and fall surveys in North Carolina showed that the number of southern pine beetle spots had doubled in areas surveyed. In District 7 the North Carolina Forest Service found 3,000 spots.

Aerial surveys are currently underway by the Georgia Forestry Commission, The SPB Situation seems to be static at a high level in north Georgia and decreasing in Chatham county as a result of the vigorous suppression program in that county.

The Virginia Division of Forestry reported an increase in the southern pine beetle pop- ulation in all counties, especially along the southern edge of the epidemic area.

SEED ORCHARD INSECTS

Seed bugs are the prime causal suspect in the near total destruction of the Virginia pine seed crop on the Beech Creek Seed Orchard. Cones sliced just before harvest indicated an average 2.65 * 1.44 full seed per cut face. The story was much the same in the Cherokee shortleaf pine geographic source where the average number of full seed per cone was estimated at 2.771 2.1 per cut face. The North Carolina shortleaf showed a slightly higher number of full seed per cut face(3.2 Daas es

An examination of cones on 31 ramets in the Piedmont loblolly geographic source on the Francis Marion Seed Orchard revealed that about 26.63 percent of the second year cones had been attacked by Dioryctria sp.

Representatives from the Alexandria Forest Pest Management Group recently returned from Brunswick, Georgia; where they completed testing Furadan for coneworm control on slash pine. This test is part of the Southern Seed Orchard Pest Committee's effort to get efficacy data for registering pesticides for seed orchard insect control.

DISEASES

The Alexandria Forest Pest Management Field Office recently began a disease impact survey of cottonwood and sycamore plantations. This work is being done in cooperation with the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and with the Southern Forest Experiment Station,

Oak wilt surveys made in June and July 1974, covering 15.6 million acres in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas revealed oak wilt in one new county in Arkansas (Poinsett). No new spots were found in Oklahoma or Texas.

More detailed information can be obtained by writing to the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Pest Management Group Field Offices, or the Atlanta Office listed below:

P.O. Box 5695 2500 Shreveport Highway Asheville, North Carolina 28803 Pineville, Louisiana 71360

Forest Pest Management 1720 Peachtree St., N.W., Room 711 Atlanta, Georgia 30309

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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