The Forest Insect Survey of Maine: an Annotated List of Insects Collected and Recorded by the Maine Forest Service; order Coleoptera: Beetles
Dearborn RG and Donahue CP. 1993. The Forest Insect Survey of Maine: an Annotated List of Insects Collected and Recorded by the Maine Forest Service; order Coleoptera: Beetles. Technical Report No. 32. Maine Forest Service, Department of Conservation. Augusta, Maine
'This list makes available some of the wealth of information which has been accumulating since 1921.' 'Serious concern for the nature of the forest insect community in Maine as a whole began to develop following a devastating outbreak of the spruce budworm in spruce-fir areas of the state from 1910 to 1919. A position of State Forest Entomologist was created in 1921 to monitor forest insect problems throughout the state. Most of the effort was directed at evaluation and biological control of native and introduced pests of arborvitae, birch, spruce and fir from 1921 to 1940. Although some general field work was conducted during this period, it was not until 1941 that an organized survey program was established (Brower, 1953 and 1956). From 1941 to the present, there has been an increased effort to determine the nature of the forest insect community and its impact on the health of the forest resource.. Out of this effort evolved a large volume of collection records, field observations and collected specimens which now serve as a core resource for forest insect work.' /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dearborn, Richard; Donahue, Charlene
- Date of Issue
- 1993-12
- Publisher
- Maine Forest Service, Department of Conservation
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Checklist, Insects (Insecta), Inventory (Baseline), Mount Desert Island