Pest and disease resources
Specific tree and woodland problems
Diseases
- Acute oak decline
- Ash dieback / Chalara ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus)
- Bleeding canker of horse chestnut
- Conifer root and butt rot (Heterobasidion annosum)
- Chronic oak dieback
- Dothistroma / red-band needle blight of pine (Dothistroma septosporum)
- Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi)
- Elbow-patch crust disease of plane (Fomitiporia punctatus)
- Elm yellows (Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi)
- Massaria disease of plane (Splanchnonema platani)
- Neonectria canker of fir (Neonectria neomacrospora)
- Oak wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum/Bretziella fagacearum)
- Phytophthora alni disease of alder
- Phytophthora austrocedri disease of juniper
- Phytophthora kernoviae
- Phytophthora lateralis
- Pitch canker of pine (Fusarium circinatum)
- Plane tree wilt / Canker stain of plane (Ceratocystis platani)
- Ramorum disease (Phytophthora ramorum)
- Sirococcus blight of cedar (Sirococcus tsugae)
- Sweet chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica)
- Thousand cankers disease (Geosmithia morbida)
- Xylella (Xylella fastidiosa)
Insects
- Asian longhorn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
- Bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius)
- Budworm pests of conifer trees - multiple species
- Citrus longhorn beetle (Anoplophora chinensis)
- Elm zigzag sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda)
- Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)
- Great spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus micans)
- Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
- Horse chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella)
- Larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)
- Oak pinhole borer (Platypus cylindrus)
- Oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea)
- Oriental chestnut gall wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus)
- Pine-tree lappet moth (Dendrolimus pini)
- Pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa)
- Pine weevil (Hylobius abietis)
- Pine wood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus)
- Red-necked longhorn beetle (Aromia bungii)
- Siberian silk moth (Dendrolimus sibiricus)
- Two-spotted oak buprestid beetle (Agrilus biguttatus)
Mammals
- Feral wild boar
- Grey squirrels
- Livestock overgrazing in upland woodlands
- Preventing mammal damage to trees and woodland
- Recognising types of mammal damage to trees and woodland
- Reducing the impact of non-native or invasive vertebrates to forestry
Other
- Drought stress in Sitka spruce
- Potential impacts of drought and disease on forestry in Scotland
- Problems on plane trees* (PDF-437K)
Publications
- Tree pest and disease posters
A selection of posters that can be downloaded as PDFs and then printed at a size to suit. These were mostly produced for the 2012 APF show and have been popular as posters to display in offices or places of work.
Related services
- Pesticides efficacy testing - Quality-assured field trials of new and existing pesticides under strictly controlled environmental conditions
- Hylobius Management Support System - Helps predict and reduce damage and costs due to large pine weevil
- PG Suspension - Biological control agent for Heterobasidion annosum
- Tree Health Diagnostic and Advisory Service