Host specificity testing and assessment of the pathogenicity of the rust, Puccinia abrupta var. partheniicola, as a biological control agent of Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus)

1994 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. PARKER ◽  
A. N. G. HOLDEN ◽  
A. J. TOMLEY
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Host Specificity ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Parthenium Hysterophorus ◽  
Host Specificity Testing ◽  
Parthenium Weed

Biology of Bucculatrix parthenica Bradley sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) and its establishment in Australia as a biological control agent for Parthenium hysterophorus (Asteraceae)

1990 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. McClay ◽  
R. E. McFadyen ◽  
J. D. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Specificity ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Field Conditions ◽  
Parthenium Hysterophorus ◽  
Leaf Miners

AbstractBucculatrix parthenica Bradley sp. n., a moth native to Mexico, is described. It has been released and established in Queensland, Australia, as a biological control agent for its host plant, Parthenium hysterophorus. The moth oviposits on leaves of its host. First and second instar larvae are leaf miners, and later instars feed externally on the leaves. The life cycle occupies about 25 days under field conditions. B. parthenica was narrowly oligophagous in host-specificity tests. In Mexico the insect is scarce but in Queensland it has become abundant enough to cause extensive defoliation of its host plant at some sites. Its rapid increase in Queensland is attributed to the absence of parasitism.

scholarly journals Retrospective host specificity testing of Cotesia urabae to assess the risk posed to the New Zealand nolid moth Celama parvitis

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 328-328
Author(s):  
G.A. Avila ◽  
T.M. Withers ◽  
G.I. Holwell
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Host Specificity ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Laboratory Rearing ◽  
Host Deprivation ◽  
Retrospective Testing ◽  
Host Specificity Testing

Additional retrospective testing of the gum leaf skeletoniser (Uraba lugens) biological control agent Cotesia urabae was conducted against the endemic moth Celama parvitis Although this native was included in host specificity testing before EPA approved the parasitoids release this work aimed to increase the sample size to better assess the potential risk posed The effect that different periods of host deprivation and prior oviposition experience had on the parasitoids readiness to attack was examined in a sequence of nochoice tests No parasitoids emerged from the 52 of larvae that survived to pupation thus confirming C parvitis as a nonhost Dissections of larvae that died during laboratory rearing revealed that 63 had contained a parasitoid but no C urabae parasitoid larvae developed beyond the second instar Significant differences were found in the attack times according to the parasitoids deprivation levels (age) and it was also observed that the duration until first attack significantly decreased after each nontarget presentation

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