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Protecting Machine Transplanted Trees From White Grubs

The ravages of white grubs in forest tree nurseries can be readily controlled by applications of any one of several chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides such as aldrin, chlordane, or heptachlor. These treatments are preventative and should be applied before the damage has started, the treatment being designed to kill the grubs shortly after they hatch (Shenefelt and Simkover 1950, 1951). White grubs often destroy large numbers of trees set in the field (Stoeckeler and Limstrom 1942, Rudolph 1950), but methods for their control in the planting area are not yet established. Protection of field transplants from attack by grubs presents several unique problems.


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Author(s): Roy D. Shenefelt, H. R. Liebig, R. C. Dosen

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 20 (1955)