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UK Risk Register Details for Dryocoetes confusus

This record was last updated on 30/04/2020

Common Names

  • Mountain balsam bark beetle
  • Western balsam bark beetle

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Non-squared wood

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches
  • Non-squared wood

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 3
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 9
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 27

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Regulated quarantine pest

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 1
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 3
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 3
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 9

Proposed Actions

Proposed Actions

Regulation

Deregulation

Management By Industry

Targeted Survey

PRA

Contingency Plan

Publicity

Research

Distribution and Pest Details

Distribution

Country / Territory Status Notes
Europe
United Kingdom Absent
North America
Canada Present
United States Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Coleoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Abies

Major Hosts

  • Abies Miller
  • Abies amabilis (Dougl. Ex Lood) Dougl. Ex Forbes
  • Abies concolor var. concolor (Gord. & Glend.)Lindl. Ex Hild.
  • Abies lasiocarpa (Hooker) Nuttall
  • Picea engelmannii Parry Ex Engelm.
  • Abies lasiocarpa var. bifolia Eckenwalder 2009

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

PRA not available

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Regulated quarantine pest (as non-European Scolytinae). EPPO A1

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action against findings.

General Comments

Damaging beetle pest of firs in North America. Mitigations in place through regulation of pest and prohibition of fir imports.

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