VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Diervilla lonicera | Bush-Honeysuckle 



WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE : 
NO-ENTRY


IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE : 
Bush-honeysuckle provides winter browse for moose, and winter and summer
browse for white-tailed deer [18].  Leaves and twigs are eaten by
woodland caribou, but bush-honeysuckle is not an important component of
the woodland caribou diet [10].
 
Sharp-tailed grouse consume the vegetative buds.  Bush-honeysuckle
provides brood cover for sharp-tailed grouse in Wisconsin [16].


PALATABILITY : 
Bush-honeysuckle is preferred by white-tailed deer in late summer [18].


NUTRITIONAL VALUE : 
NO-ENTRY


COVER VALUE : 
NO-ENTRY


VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES : 
NO-ENTRY


OTHER USES AND VALUES : 
NO-ENTRY


MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Seed-tree cuts or clearcuts in red pine (Pinus resinosa) communities
often result in a dense growth of shrubs, including bush-honeysuckle.
Bush-honeysuckle increased in density following logging in a balsam fir
(Abies balsamea)-paper birch (Betula papyrifera) stand near Duluth,
Minnesota [34].  Leaving more of the canopy when logging reduces the
amount of shrub growth [12].

Bush-honeysuckle competes with lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium
angustifolium) after fire-pruning of lowbush blueberry fields [17].

Bush-honeysuckle is susceptible to foliar sprays of 2,4-D [6].

Bush-honeysuckle is probably resistant to browsing; on Isle Royale,
Michigan, it was found in higher densities in control plots than in
moose exclosures [38].

Related categories for Species: Diervilla lonicera | Bush-Honeysuckle