Resource Database

Resource Number: 4531

Title: A Guide to Major Insects, Diseases, Air Pollution Injury, and Chemical Injury of Sycamore

Publisher: USDA Forest Service - Southern Research Station

Description: This booklet will help nurserymen, forest woodland managers, pest control operators, and homeowners to identify and control pest problems on sycamore trees. The major insect and disease pests of sycamores in the Eastern United States are emphasized. Descriptions and illustrations of the pests and the damage they cause are provided to aid in identification. Brief notes are given on biology and control to aid in predicting damage and making control decisions.

Last Updated: June 11, 2019

Contributors:

Domain(s)/Area(S):

• Arboriculture
  • Misc. Tree Care
• Forestry
  • Hardwood
• Ornamentals
  • Trees

Subject
sycamore lace bug  (Corythucha ciliata)
fall webworm  (Hyphantria cunea)
whitemarked tussock moth  (Orgyia leucostigma)
Japanese beetle  (Popillia japonica)
oystershell scale  (Lepidosaphes ulmi)
cottony maple scale  (Pulvinaria innumerabilis)
flatheaded appletree borer  (Chrysobothris femorata)
Columbian timber beetle  (Corthylus columbianus)
pinhole borer  (Platypus spp.)
Cylindrocladium root diseases  (Cylindrocladium spp.)
Ganoderma root and butt rot  (Ganoderma lucidum)
Ceratocystis canker - stain of sycamore  (Ceratocystis fimbriata f.sp. platani)
Phomopsis cankers and twig blights  (Phomopsis spp.)
mistletoes
bacterial leaf scorch  (Xylella fastidiosa)
sycamore anthracnose  (Apiognomonia veneta)
air pollutants
chemicals
Pesticides
stalk borer  (Papaipema nebris)
American plum borer  (Euzophera semifuneralis)
Botryosphaeria canker  (Botryosphaeria rhodina)
lion's mane hericium  (Hericium erinaceus)
sycamore tussock moth  (Halysidota harrisii)
European corn borer  (Ostrinia nubilalis)
Armillaria root rot  (Armillaria tabescens)
Pacific flatheaded borer  (Chrysobothris mali)
sycamore leaf blotch miner  (Ectoedemia platanella)
powdery mildew  (Microsphaera penicillata)
Hypoxylon canker of sycamore  (Hypoxylon tinctor)
ambrosia beetles  (Xyleborus spp.)
drab prominent  (Misogada unicolor)
terrapin scale  (Mesolecanium nigrofasciatum)
European fruit lecanium  (Parthenolecanium corni)
mealy flatid  (Anormenis septentrionalis)
whitefringed beetle  (Naupactus peregrinus)
sycamore  (Platanus spp.)
ambrosia beetles  (Xylosandrus spp.)
powdery mildew  (Phyllactinia guttata)
leafhoppers  (Erythroneura spp.)
flatid planthoppers  (Ormenoides venusta)
canker (general)
pesticide safety
ash root rot  (Scytinostroma galactinum)
Mycosphaerella fungi  (Mycosphaerella spp.)
Septoria leaf spot  (Septoria platanifolia)
persimmon wilt  (Acremonium diospyri)
dieback
whitefringed beetle  (Naupactus minor)
insect diagnostics
Dothiorella cankers  (Dothiorella spp.)
tree care
case-bearing leaf beetle  (Coscinoptera mucida)