A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases,
Air Pollution Injury, and Chemical Injury of Sycamore

Leininger, T.D; Solomon, J.D.; Wilson, A. Dan; Schiff, N.M. 1999. A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, Air Pollution Injury, and Chemical Injury of Sycamore. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-28. Asheville, NC: USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 44 p.

Contents

• Introduction
• Caution
• Foliage Insects
Sycamore Tussock Moth
Whitemarked Tussock Moth
Fall Webworm
Leaffolders and Webworms
Case-Bearing Leaf Beetle
Sycamore Lace Bug
Leafhoppers
• Minor Foliage Insects
Sycamore Leafblotch Miner
Drab Prominent
Japanese Beetle
Plant Bug
• Seedling, Terminal, and Branch Insects
Planthoppers
Scale Insects
Stalk Borer
European Corn Borer
• Trunk Borers
Columbian Timber Beetle
Flatheaded Borers
• Minor Trunk Borers
Ambrosia Beetles
American Plum Borer
• Root Insects
Whitefringed Beetles
• Seedling Diseases
Cylindrocladium Root Rot
• Foliage Diseases
Anthracnose-Leaf Blight
Powdery Mildews
Bacterial Leaf Scorch
Minor Leaf Spots and Blights
• Wilt, Decline, and Dieback
Acremonium Wilt
Sycamore Decline and Dieback
• Cankers
Canker Stain
Botryosphaeria Canker
Anthracnose-Twig Canker and Shoot Blight
Hypoxylon Canker
Miscellaneous Cankers
• Root and Butt Rots
Armillaria Root Rot
Hericium Butt Rot
Oxyporus Root Rot
Ganoderma Butt Rot
Scytinostroma Root Rot
• Parasitic Plants
Mistletoe
• Air Pollution and Chemical Injuries
• Maintaining Tree Health
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary