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Cricket Damage To REd Cedar Seedlings

In July 1979, nursery personnel at Claridge Nursery, located near Goldsboro, N.C., began to notice mortality in 1-0 eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana seedlings. A careful examination of the seedlings revealed that the seedlings were debarked and girdled from groundline to a height of approximately 1 inch. Samples 2 square feet in size taken at 50 foot intervals indicated that approximately 7 percent of the 154,000 red cedar seedlings were girdled. The only insect found in the beds was the common field cricket (Gryllus assimilis). Although field crickets have been reported damaging a number of crops, we could find no report of damage to tree seedlings.


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Author(s): Coleman A. Doggett, Vernon Hawley, Wilson Norris

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 31, Number 3 (1980)

Section: General

Volume: 31

Number: 3