INSECTS Al-I-ECTI.Xi; PARK AND WOODLAND TREES 



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Eastern pine wood stainer 



Glial liolricliui ntatcriarins I'ilch 



A brownish black, ratluT sIciuliT bicilc almut 1,-; iu( li long, enters the sapwoocl of 

 dvint; anil tk-ail white ]>iiu-, niakinsi < ylindrir i;alleries, the walls of which are stained black. 



This common wootl-horino- Amhrosl.i liccllc lixcs on a fun<^ais cultivated 

 in its naileries. This species is common in (i\inL,^ and dead white |»ines in 

 different sections of tlie State, cnterinj^ the wood \i:ry shortl\- after tlie tree 

 has been injiu'ed as a rule. It was met witli on spruce at Biif Moose 

 N. \'., |uly 2, 1903, it Ijein^^ attracted to tn-es injured Ijy recent fires in that 



t'il- 75 Gnalhotri- 

 c li u s ni a I e r i a- 

 r i 11 s. (After Hub- 

 bard. CT. S. I)cp"l 

 AKri-;. Div. Knt. Biil. 

 7. li. s. 1897.) 



Kit;. 7'> Gallery of G n a l h o ! t i c h u s matcriarius in pine (.After Hubbard and Hopkins, 

 V . S. Dep I Aijric. Div. Km. Hul. 7. n. s. 18-571 



section. It has also been noticed by Ur Fitch. This insect makes slender, 

 cylindric burrows across the wood fibers and usually parallel with the lines 

 of growth. .Short, straight, lateral galk-ries or lirood cells branch off from 

 the main (Mies at right angles above anil below. This species is attracted 

 by the odor of turjientine, and Dr Ho])ki;is records it as one of a numljer 

 collected on a recently painted greenhouse. lie states that this species, 

 associated with others, is frecpu-ntly found in the sajjwootl of spruce at 

 Williams River W. \'a., and adds that it is very common in that state in 

 the sapwood of dead and dying pine and spruce trees, logs and stum])s. He 



