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Bud mining by insects - shoot moths - Blastoterespp.; Anobiids - Ernobius spp. | deutsch

Symptoms    Buds abnormally inflated, remaining unopened (esp. the terminal ones); often with a roundish entrance/emerging hole on the base; wood shavings mostly without resin; the bud is more or less mined totally, sometimes the mines reach the shoot below; varying among the species the bud is filled with crumbling feces (beetles) or without feces (moths).
Impact    No damage to older plants; on young plants intense infestation may cause branching anomalies or multiple tree tops as well as an increased predisposition to infection by microfungi causing shoot dieback.
Control    Mostly none necessary
Hosts   Spruce; Fir;
Affected plant parts    Shoot/Twig/Branch;


Mined buds (spruce)
Mined buds and shoots (spruce)
Mined bud, spruce: larva
Bud mining, fir
Abnormal multiplication of buds following mining
Spruce anobiid: larva

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