We investigated the diversity and occurrence of wood wasps in Lithuania and determined communities of associated fungi. Trapping of wood wasps resulted in three different species, including Sirex juvencus, Urocerus gigas, and Tremex fuscicornis.

2016年12月9日 · Sirex noctilio, known as the “Sirex woodwasp” or “European woodwasp” (sometimes spelled “wood wasp”), is an invasive species that attacks most species of pine trees. Interestingly, the insect is dependent upon the fungus Amylostereum aerolatum to …

2018年12月3日 · The sirex wasp (Sirex noctilio) kills healthy pine trees by introducing a wood-rotting fungus and toxic mucous into the tree. This fungus introduced by the female wasp spreads throughout the tree and provides food for the burrowing sirex larvae.

2011年1月1日 · The wood-boring wasp Sirex noctilio has an obligate mutualistic ­relationship with the basidiomycete fungus, Amylostereum areolatum. Female wasps carry the fungus in internal mycangia and introduce it into a relatively competition …

2013年3月27日 · We report that associations between mutualistic fungi and their economically and ecologically important woodwasp hosts are not always specific as was previously assumed. Woodwasps in the genus Sirex engage in obligate nutritional ectosymbioses with two species of Amylostereum, a homobasid\iomycete genus

2011年10月20日 · The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also threatens pines in North America. This book brings together the worldwide knowledge of researchers from Universities and Government institutions, as well as forest industry practitioners that have ...

The woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is native to Eurasia and North Africa (Hajek, Haavik, and Stephen, 2021*). Its associated fungus, Amylostereum areolatum, has numerous strains native to much of the Northern hemisphere including North America, Eurasia, and North Africa.

Sirex is a genus of sawfly in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. Their bodies are black with a dark blue or green metallic reflection with some species having reddish-brown portions. [1] They inject eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood.

Sirex noctilio, or the sirex wood wasp, is native to Europe, North Africa, and Northeast Asia. It was first detected in a funnel trap in Fulton, NY in 2004 as a part of a USDA Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) that was mainly surveying for exotic bark beetles.

Native to Eurasia and Morocco, sirex wood wasp is the most damaging invasive pest of pine plantations in the southern hemisphere. It was first recorded in Tasmania in 1952, Victoria in 1961 and South Australia and New South Wales by 1980. With no natural predators, it vigorously attacked softwood plantations, especially radiata pines.