The tree bands I've seen in Charlotte this season have been on private property for the most part. The city of Charlotte has drastically curtailed their banding. Rightfully so, since I saw no cankerworms on the trees I looked at. My inspection was limited almost exclusively to about 20 trees on Latrobe Drive.
The goal of this project is to document all non-target arthropods that become trapped in tree bands in North Carolina. I recently inspected trees in Charlotte where bands are put up to trap wingless Fall Cankerworm females (Alsophila pometaria) as they climb trunks in late fall and early winter. I counted the first 500 arthropods I saw and tallied just 2 cankerworms! Of course, this will ...עוד ↓
kenkneidel
פרוייקט זה נוצר בפברואר 19, 2020
NC Tree Bands and Arthropod "Collateral Damage"
