Bronze birch borer

Bronze birch borer

Taxobox
name = Bronze birch borer


image_width = 220px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
familia = Buprestidae
genus = "Agrilus"
species = "A. anxius"
binomial = "Agrilus anxius"
binomial_authority = Gory, 1841The bronze birch borer "Agrilus anxius" is a wood-boring Buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in warmer parts of the continent and rare in the north. It is a serious pest on birch trees ("Betula"), frequently killing them. The River Birch "Betula nigra" is the most resistant species, other American birches less so, while the European and Asian birches have no resistance to it at all and are effectively impossible to grow in the eastern United States as a result.

It is closely related to the emerald ash borer.

External links

* [http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/bbb/bbb.htm US Forest Service factsheet]


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