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Ecology and Epidemiology

A Canker of Red Maples Associated With Oviposition by the Narrow-Winged Tree Cricket. G. S. Taylor, Plant pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Valley Laboratory, P.O. Box 248, Windsor, 06095; R. E. B. Moore, technician II, Department of Entomology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Valley Laboratory, P.O. Box 248, Windsor, 06095. Phytopathology 69:236-239. Accepted for publication 30 August 1978. Copyright 1979 The American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-69-236.

A bleeding, lens-shaped canker on nursery-grown and wild Acer rubrum in Connecticut was associated with oviposition wounds caused by the narrow-winged tree cricket, Oecanthus angustipennis. An unidentified Cryptosporiopsis sp. was associated with cankered tissues and induced cankers in inoculated red maples.