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A Team of Tennessee Research and Extension Faculty Gets Ready to Begin their USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative Grant on
Flatheaded Borer Management in Specialty Tree Crops
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Fig. 1. Many of the SCRI grant cooperators participated remotely or in-person to provide input on research needs and priorities during the two-day planning workshop in McMinnville (photo by David Held, Auburn University). • Fig. 2. A word tree captures the diversity and frequency of topics that will be addressed by the flatheaded borer (FHB) grant team during this four-year project (image from Bill Klingeman, University of Tennessee). • Fig. 3. A FHB larva extracted from an infested pin oak tree (photo by Frank Hale, University of Tennessee). • Fig. 4. Damage caused by maturing FHB larvae can be very apparent on the main trunk of smooth and thin-barked trees like red maple (photo by Jason Oliver, Tennessee State University). • Fig. 5. Smaller stems can also be attacked, like on the exposed branches of weeping ‘Traveler’ redbud trees (photo by Bill Klingeman, University of Tennessee).
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