Preliminary Studies on Resistance in Eastern White Pine to the White-Pine Weevil, Pissodes strobi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in New York12

This investigation is a result of a study made in New York from 1954 through 1958 on white-pine weevil attack in relation to soils and other environmental factors (Connola and Wixson 1963). At that time a survey was made of damage by the white-pine weevil, Pissodes strobi (Peck), in 266 $$^1/_{10}$$-acre sample plots of eastern white pine, Pinus strobus L., scattered throughout the State. Although most of these were in plantations, a few were in natural stands. It was noted then that there was more weevil damage in natural stands in the southern half of the State than in the northern half.