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Breeding and Growing Chestnuts
--- For more information on Planting AND Growing
chestnuts, click on the Planting link
here or below.
--- There are many things that can go wrong when growing chestnuts.
We've started a collection of case studies related to the pitfalls
and setbacks
that one might encounter when trying to grow chestnuts, a collection
that has been titled the "Museum
of Chestnut Horrors". Click here for
more information.
A new page on SEED ORCHARD design (sort of)
Pests
There are many pests that can damage your chestnut crop. Deer are a major
problem. The following pages will help give you some general information
about pests and their management.
Also, as mentioned above, we've started a collection
of case studies related to the pitfalls and setbacks that one might encounter
when trying to grow chestnuts, a collection that has been titled the "Museum
of Chestnut Horrors". Click here for
more information.
http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/fencing.htm
Wildlife
Damage Managment
More information on various pests:
Chesnut Weevil
Insect
Images - Image 1224050
Ambrosia Beetle (shothole borer):
From the Chestnut
Growers Association (Xyleborus dispar - European shothole
borer)
From the American Chestut Cooperators' Foundation (Xylosandrus
crassiusculus - Asian ambrosia beetle)
http://www.bugwood.org/factsheets/99-010.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/trees/note111/note111.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Fruits/NoteP-3.html
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/asian_ambrosia_beetle.htm
http://www.walterreeves.com/insects_animals/article.phtml?cat=21&id=336
Images
Oriental Gall Wasp
Insects
Important to Agriculture in Georgia Chestnut
oriental
chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera Cynipidae) - Insect
Images
Oriental
Chestnut Gall Wasp Found in N.E. Ohio
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Wood Properties
- Wood
Properties of American Chestnut
Wormy Chestnut: Link
1 and Link 2
The "culprit"? Melittoma sericeum
How to tell the difference between different woods:
- Download and read Dr. Gary Carver's article
in the TACF Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, available from here: TACF
Journals
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