PINE ROOT COLLAR WEEVIL
Although this is more of a pest in Christmas tree plantations, every once in a while we come across pine root collar weevil damage on landscape trees. Pine root collar weevil will attack both young and large pine trees. Host trees include Scotch pine, Austrian pine, red pine and occasionally white pine. The larvae feed in the phloem tissue around the root collar, killing the cambium in the process. This girdling of the tree will eventually cause it to die….