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The Spread of Black Pine Bast Scale, Matsucoccus thunbergianae (Hemiptera: Margarodidae) in Korea

Authors :
Chung Gyoo Park
Sang Myeong Lee
Eugene Lim
Dong Woon Lee
Dong Soo Kim
Joon-Bum Kim
Shin-Hye Lee
Kwang-Sik Choi
Source :
Korean journal of applied entomology. 51:59-65
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
Korean Society of Applied Entomology, 2012.

Abstract

The black pine bast scale, (Hemiptera: Margarodidae), is a serious pest of the Japanese black pine, , in Korea. The distribution of the black pine bast scale was examined, looking overall at 686 towns (eup), townships (myeon) or neighborhoods (dong). There were Japanese black pine ( ) forests in 91 cities, counties (gun) and borough (gu), in seven provinces and three metropolitan cities during 2010. Black pine bast scale were found in 64.8% of cities or counties or borough (59) in 7 provinces and 3 metropolitan cities, and were distributed in all South Costal regions, Pohang in East Costal region and Boryeong in West Costal region. Chungcheongbukdo, Daejeon and Jeju did not have black pine bast scale. All the gu regions in Busan had black pine bast scale, of which the area with the highest prevalence was Haenam in Jeollanamdo (1.713 crawlers/0.785 ). Songji-myeon had the highest occurrence rate (6.36 crawlers/0.785 ) from the towns, township and dong. The density of black pine bast scale in twigs was highly correlated with percentage of the sample with scale (Correlation coefficacy

Details

ISSN :
12250171
Volume :
51
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Korean journal of applied entomology
Accession number :
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Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5656/ksae.2011.12.0.070