Hiker's Guide to the Trees, Shrubs
and Vines of Ricketts Glen State Park

Woolly Beech Scale (Cryptococcus fagisuga),
Part of the Beech Bark Disease Complex
(with the fungus Neonectria faginata)

(Homoptera: Eriococcidae)

 

Reference: Morris, A.B., R.L. Small, and M.B. Cruzan. 2002. Investigating the relationship between
Cryptococcus fagisuga and Fagus grandifolia in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Southeastern Naturalist 1:415-424.


Updated 30 July 2017.