New State and Host Plant Records for Metallic Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Tennessee, U.S.A.

Year-to-Year Variation in Prey Capture by Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) at Two Sites in North Carolina

“…Similar field infestation percentages have been observed in other southeastern U.S. nurseries (Potter et al 1988;Allen & Alverson 1994;Coyle et al 2005). Given the broad host plant range of C. femorata, as well as other beetles within the C. femorata species group (Solomon 1985;Wellso & Manley 2007;Nelson et al 2008;Hansen 2010;Hansen et al 2012;Paiero et al 2012;Hansen et al in press), large numbers of tree species and cultivars are under significant risk if buprestid species are misidentified, are not monitored properly, or if management efforts are timed poorly (Troxclair 2005;Seagraves et al 2012;.…”

“…Since the 2008 inception of the C. fumipennis biosurveillance program in North Carolina, more than 2,300 buprestids, including 13 new state records with the 2 reported herein, have been collected from the wasp in 26 counties (MacRae & Basham 2013;Swink et al 2013Swink et al , 2014. In a similar timeframe, host plant-directed scouting and improvements to buprestid trapping using experimental panel traps and other techniques have yielded 48 new state records for Tennessee (Hansen et al , 2012MacRae & Basham 2013).…”

“…In Tennessee and North Carolina, loss of ash trees would have an impact on local ecology, including survival of native arthropods that are dependent upon the species (Gandhi & Herms 2010). Another non-native buprestid, Agrilus subrobustus Saunders, was recently discovered in Tennessee and appears to be associated only with non-indigenous and invasive mimosa trees (Albizia julibrissin Durazzini; Fabales: Fabaceae) (Westcott 2007;Hansen et al 2010;Hoebeke & Wheeler 2011;Hansen et al 2012). The biology and behavior of A. subrobustus remain poorly understood, thus the extent to which this species may become a potential pest or ally in biological control of mimosa remains unclear (Hoebeke & Weeler 2011).…”

“…These approaches, in turn, provided insights into optimizing the attraction of many buprestid species to traps (Hansen et al 2012;MacRae & Basham 2013) and have led to widespread deployment of the purple prism traps currently used to monitor populations of emerald ash borers (Francese et al 2010(Francese et al , 2013. Buprestid beetles are also the primary prey item of the ground-nesting wasp Cerceris fumipennis (Say) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae).…”

“…Distribution patterns across both states where these species could be expected to occur were not known (Hansen et al 2012). Moreover, it remained unclear whether the activity period of other species of buprestid beetles overlapped with the hunting flight season of the relatively short-lived adult C. fumipennis (Marshall et al 2005;Careless et al 2014).…”