Sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata — Bug of the Week

Lace bug growth is temperature dependent and, because the world warms and our cities develop hotter, lace bugs might be able to full extra generations every year. If lace bugs and their harm are too nice, the sycamore could merely drop its leaves and produce a untimely finish to the lace bug’s shenanigans. Different components corresponding to lack of vitamins or water can also trigger sycamore leaves to show yellow and fall, however one positive solution to rule lace bugs out or in is to show the leaves over and examine them for the telltale indicators of a lace bug infestation – lace bugs in any respect life levels, shed skins, and their fecal deposits. We regularly lament the truth that so many pests of our forests and gardens, like emerald ash borer, brown marmorated stink bug, and noticed lanternfly, arrived in North America from overseas lands. Within the sport of world financial tit for tat, our native sycamore lace bug is one other instance of a pest now we have shared with different neighbors world wide, together with greater than three dozen nations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceana, the place sycamores are extensively planted and now recurrently attacked by this insect. 

Acknowledgements

We thank Veronica Robinson and John Neal for offering the inspiration for this episode. The attention-grabbing references “Corythucha ciliata (sycamore lace bug)” on the CABI web site https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/16264#tosummaryOfInvasiveness, and “Managing Bugs and Mites on Woody Vegetation: an IPM Method” by John Davidson and Michael Raupp, have been used as references for this episode.