From Culture to Chemistry: Managing Flatheaded Borers in Specialty Crops

Organizer(s)

• KA

  Karla Addesso

  Research Associate Professor
  Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
  Tennessee State University
  McMinnville, Tennessee
• 

  Jason Oliver

  Research Professor of Entomology
  Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
  Tennessee State University, Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center (TSU-NRC)
  McMinnville, Tennessee
• CP

  Cindy Perkovich

  Assistant Professor of Biology
  Ashland University
  Barberton, Ohio

This symposium will focus on ecology and management of Chrysobothris flatheaded borers in nursery, landscape nut and fruit orchard systems. These native beetles cause damage to trees by girdling trunks and branches, reducing yield in production orchards and killing newly planted trees.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University
• 1:35 PM – 1:55 PM PT

  Tracking outbreaks of native buprestids using Cerceris fumipennis
  

  Presenting Author: Claire E. Rutledge – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
• 1:55 PM – 2:15 PM PT

  Characterizing Pacific flatheaded borer damage in commercial walnut orchards in California
  

  Presenting Author: Sudan Gyawaly – University of California

  Co-Author: Jhalendra P. Rijal (he/him/his) – University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
• 2:15 PM – 2:35 PM PT

  Biology and management of Chrysobothris mali in orchard crops in western Oregon
  

  Presenting Author: Nik Wiman – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Heather Andrews – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Erica Rudolph – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Melissa Scherr – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Lloyd Nackley – Oregon State University
• 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM PT

  The Chrysobothris femorata complex in Alabama: Species, flight period, and factors affecting host choice
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Baker – Auburn University

  Co-author: Amanda Vinson – Auburn University

  Co-author: David Held – Auburn University
• 2:55 PM – 3:15 PM PT

  Entomopathogenic nematodes as potential biocontrol of the orchard pest, flatheaded appltree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
  

  Presenting Author: Colin Wong (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: David I. Shapiro-Ilan – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jason B. Oliver – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University
• 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM PT

  Break
• 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM PT

  Occurrence of flatheaded borers in Georgia specialty tree crops
  

  Presenting Author: Zia Valerie Williamson (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Angelita L. Acebes-Doria (she/her/hers) – DKI US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center

  Co-Author: Shimat V. Joseph, Ph.D. – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Brett R. Blaauw – University of Georgia
• 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM PT

  A smart farming approach to insecticide applications in nurseries
  

  Presenting Author: Amy Fulcher – University of Tennessee

  Co-author: Lauren Fessler – University of Tennessee

  Co-author: Wesley Wright – University of Tennessee

  Co-author: Grace Pietsch – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Heping Zhu – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Liesel Schneider – University of Tennessee
• 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM PT

  Effects of herbicide exposure and systemic imidacloprid applications on the physiology of red maple, a host plant of flatheaded appletree borer
  

  Presenting Author: Cynthia L. Perkovich – Ashland University

  Co-Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University
• 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM PT

  Cover crop methods for managing flatheaded borers
  

  Presenting Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: Axel David Gonzalez Murillo – University of Tennessee UTK

  Co-author: Sujan Dawadu – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Jason B. Oliver – Tennessee State University, Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center (TSU-NRC)

  Co-author: Cindy L. Perkovich – Ashland University

  Co-author: Asmita Gautam – Tennessee State University
• 4:45 PM – 5:05 PM PT

  A genomic and reduced-representation sequencing-based approach to establish phylogenetic relationships between Chrysobothris femorata species-complex members (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and other Chrysobothris species
  

  Presenting Author: Axel David Gonzalez Murillo – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: John K. Moulton – University of Tennessee

  Co-author: Bode Olukolu – University of Tennessee

  Co-author: Joshua Basham – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Kurt H. Lamour – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Karla Michele Addesso – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: Jhalendra P. Rijal (he/him/his) – University of California

  Co-Author: William Klingeman – University of Tennessee
• 5:05 PM – 5:25 PM PT

  Monitoring and management of flatheaded borer in southern highbush blueberries
  

  Presenting Author: Oscar E. Liburd – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Arden R. Lambert – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Krystal Ashman – University of Florida
• 5:25 PM – 5:30 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University