Current Threats to Forest Health

Detection Map

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: All species of Ash

Additional Resources:

• USDA APHIS EAB Information, maps, regulations, etc.
• USDA APHIS “Leave Hungry Pests Behind”

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: Maples

Additional Resources:

• USDA APHIS Asian Longhorned Beetle Information
• USDA APHIS “Leave Hungry Pests Behind”

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: Maples

Additional Resources:

• NH Winter Moth Alert

Lymantria Dispar (LDD) in Rhode Island

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: Oaks, other hardwoods

Additional Resources:

• USDA APHIS Lymantria Dispar Information
• USDA Forest Service “Pest Alert”
• USDA Forest Service Lymantria Dispar Information

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: Hemlock

Additional Resources:

• USDA Forest Service Hemlock Woolly Adelgid info

Status: Native

Mostly Affects: Hard pines (Pitch pine), Others

Additional Resources:

• USDA Forest Service Southern Pine Beetle

Status: Native

Mostly Affects: All Oak

Additional Resources:

• Gall Wasps – Wikipedia

Spotted Lanternfly

Status: Exotic

Mostly Affects: Ailanthus, fruit trees, grape vines

Additional Resources:

• USDA APHIS “Leave Hungry Pests Behind"
• Northeastern IPM Center
• URI BioControl Lab Spotted Lanternfly
• Report Sighting to RIDEM

Mostly Affects: all American Beech

Additional Resources:

• Ohio DNR
• USDA Forest Service "Pest Alert"
• Beech Leaf Disease Treatment Development

Mostly Affects: American Beech

Additional Resources:

• USDA Forest Service Beech Bark Disease info
• USDA Invasive Species Information Center

Mostly Affects: Colorado Blue, other Spruces & Firs

Additional Resources:

• UMass Extension: Rhizophaera Needle Cast

Mostly Affects: Eastern White Pine

Additional Resources:

• Monitoring Eastern White Pine Decline and its Causes

Mostly Affects: Eastern White Pine

Additional Resources:

• USDA Forest Service White Pine Blister Rust
• USDA Forest Service White Pine Blister Rust General Ecology and Management

Mostly Affects: Oaks, Laurels

Additional Resources:

• USDA APHIS Sudden Oak Death
• USDA Forest Service Sudden Oak Death info