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 (Dothistroma septosporum)
- Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi)
- Elm yellows (Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi)
- Massaria disease (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 (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)
- Budworms - multiple species
- Citrus longhorn beetle (Anoplophora chinensis)
- Eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)
- 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)
- 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 beetles (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
Publications
- Publications on protecting trees and tree health
Publications about environmentally acceptable measures of preventing and controlling damage to Britain's trees. - Tree pest and disease alerts and advisory notes
Bulletins and handbills showing signs and symptoms of tree pests and diseases and advice on what to do if you suspect the pest or disease is present. - 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