The stock is being held for treatment. If you are going to receive trees from Tennessee or any other infested state and have not notified our office please do so. This insect is limited in its distribution in Kansas and we are trying to prevent its spread and eliminate the smaller infestations. A survey of approximately thirty nurseries done last fall found the two infestations. It is only a pest in nurseries because the adults will only lay eggs in fresh stumps.
Adults feed on seedling trees and the branches of larger trees.
Treatment of the stumps or removal of the stumps and burning will eliminate this pest from the nursery. Here again, good sanitation practices can help prevent a future costly problem. Nurseries found infested with this insect will not have their trees restricted from sale. During the pales weevil survey, one property in northwest Kansas was found to be infested with this pest. The infested plants were blue spruce, which is a known host for this insect.