Talk:Dutch elm disease
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who discovered dutch elm disease? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.156.132.163 (talk • contribs) 19:46, December 16, 2004 (UTC)
- the dutch? ;) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dpaajones (talk • contribs) 18:30, November 11, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Resistant trees
The Red Elm is not mentioned as being among the 'resistant trees,' and therefore no explanation is given, either, as to why it hasn't played a greater role in the resistance programme. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.100.250.218 (talk • contribs) 12:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Role of climate change and woodpecker decline
It seems likely that either or both of global warming and decline in woodpeckers, which predate on beetle larvae, itself resulting from reductions in the area of mature broadleaved woodland, losses of non-woodland trees including elms, increases in woodland isolation and reductions in the occurrence of dead wood (Vanhinsbergh et al. 2001) are candidate causes for the spread of the disease (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends2001/wcrleswo.htm), but we will need a reference for the first. See also http://www.nps.gov/shen/naturescience/downy-woodpecker.htm
what does it look like? {dutch elm disease}71.105.147.212 22:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)leeanne
[edit] Eradicating the beetle
The article makes no mention of any efforts to eradicate or control the beetle itself, thus preventing, or limiting, the spread of the fungus. If any serious work by entomologists had been done on this, one would assume it would have been mentioned in the article. As this line of reasoning will surely occur to most readers of the article, would it not be a good idea for the botanists to explain why it is not worth while attempting? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.136.50.8 (talk) 05:12, August 20, 2007 (UTC)
