First outbreak of pitch canker in a South African pine plantation

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Pitch canker caused by Fusarium circinatum — a growing threat to pine plantations and forests worldwide (2008, background): “In the Tokai plantation, in the Western Cape Province, where the first outbreak of pitch canker was reported on adult trees, trees showing typical symptomswere heavily infestedwith theweevil, Pissodes nemorensis (Coutinho et al. 2007).”
Management of Fusarium diseases affecting conifers (2015, unknown): “In South Africa, P. nemorensis was found to be infesting trees where the ﬁ rst outbreak of pitch canker on adult pines was documented in that country (Coutinho et al., 2007), and this insect has been shown to facilitate infection in greenhouse studies (Gebeyehu and Wing ﬁ eld, 2003).”