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Proceedings of the 5Th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods Langkawi, Malaysia, September 11-15, 2017 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods Langkawi, Malaysia September 11-15, 2017 Edited by Peter G. Mason, David R. Gillespie and Charles Vincent CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI CABI Nosworthy Way 745 Atlantic Avenue Wallingford 8th Floor Oxfordshire OX10 8DE Boston, MA 02111 UK USA Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 T: +1 (617)682-9015 Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cabi.org CAB International, 2017 © CAB International 2017. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NooDerivatives 4.0 International License A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK. ISBN-13: 978 1 78639 411 8 Commissioning editor: Ward Cooper Editorial assistant: Alexandra Lainsburyr Production editor: Tracy Head Contents PREFACE………………………………………………………………………......…….xiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………………………………………………………...xv SESSION 1: ACCIDENTAL INTRODUCTIONS OF BIOCONTROL AGENTS: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS 1.1 Accidental Introductions of Natural Enemies: Causes and Implications by D.C. Weber, A.E. Hajek and K.A. Hoelmer ……………………………………………………... 2 1.2 Risks and Benefits of Accidental Introductions of Biological Control Agents in Canada by P.G. Mason, O.O. Olfert, T. Haye, T.D. Gariepy, P.K. Abram and D.R. Gillespie …………………………………………………………………………………… 6 1.3 Adventive vs. Planned Introductions of Trissolcus japonicus Against BMSB: An Emerging Case Study in Real-time by K.A. Hoelmer, D.C. Weber and T. Haye ……….. 9 1.4 Can Native Parasitoids Benefit From Accidental Introductions of Exotic Biological Control Agents? by T. Haye, J.K. Konopka, T.D. Gariepy, J.N. McNeil, P.G. Mason and D.R. Gillespie …………………………………………………………………………….. 12 1.5 Accidental Introduction into Italy and Establishment of Aprostocetus fukutai (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in Citrus Longhorned Beetle Infestations by F. Hérard, M. Maspero and M.C. Bon ………………………………………………………….……….. 15 1.6 Inadvertent Reconstruction of Exotic Food Webs: Biological Control Harms and Benefits by J.M. Kaser, A.L. Nielsen, P.K. Abram and G.E. Heimpel …………………... 19 SESSION 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRE AND POST RELEASE GENETICS IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL 2.1 Practical Management of the Genetics of Classical Biocontrol Introductions by R. Stouthamer ……………………………………………………………………………….. 23 2.2 Genetic Diversity of Field and Laboratory Populations of Mastrus ridens and Consequences of Inbreeding During Laboratory Culture by T. Zaviezo, R. Retamal, T. Urvois, X. Fauvergue, K. Toleubayev and T. Malausa ………………………………..… 26 2.3 Effects of Genetic Diversity, Inbreeding and Outbreeding Investigated in Six Reared or Released Biocontrol Agents by T. Malausa, B. Quaglietti, H. Mathé-Hubert and P. Martinez …………………………………………………………………………... 29 2.4 Rapid Biocontrol Evolution in New Zealand’s Species-sparse Pasturelands by S.L. Goldson, F. Tomasetto, J.M.E. Jacobs, B.I.P. Barratt, , S.D. Wratten, R.M. Emberson and J. Tylianakis ……………………………………………………………………………… 32 2.5 Food Webs, Multiple Enemies and Biological Control by J.M. Tylianakis, P. Casanovas and S.L. Goldson …………………………………………………………….. 35 2.6 Benefits of Pre-release Population Genetics: A Case Study Using Psyttalia lounsburyi, a Biocontrol Agent of the Olive Fruit Fly in California by M.C. Bon, L. Smith, K.M. Daane, C. Pickett, X. Wang, A. Blanchet, F. Chardonnet, F. Guermache and K. A. Hoelmer………………………………………………………………………………... 38 SESSION 3: HOW WELL DO WE UNDERSTAND NON-TARGET IMPACTS IN ARTHROPOD BIOLOGICAL CONTROL? 3.1 Introduction and Non-target Effects of Insect Biological Control: Concepts, Examples, and Trends by R.G. Van Driesche and M.S. Hoddle ……………………….. 43 3.2 Displacement of Native Natural Enemies by Introduced Biological Control Agents in Agro-Ecosystems: A Serious Non-target Effect or Not? by S.E. Naranjo …………. 46 3.3 Assessing Host Use and Population Level Impacts on Non-target Species by Introduced Natural Enemies: Can Host Range Testing Provide Insight? by M.G. Wright …………………………………………………………………………………….. 50 3.4 Parasitoid Host Ranges: Comparing Studies From the Laboratory and Field by G.E. Heimpel, K.R. Hopper, J.M. Kaser, J. Miksanek, M. Bulgarella, I. Ramirez and R.A. Boulton …………………………………………………………………………………… 52 3.5 Can Predictive Models Help to Identify the Most Appropriate Non-target Species for Host-specificity Testing? by J.H. Todd, B.I.P. Barratt and T. Withers …………..… 55 3.6 What Olfactometer Tests Were Able to Tell Us About Non-target Risk That No- choice and Choice Tests Could Not by G.A. Avila, T.M. Withers and G.I. Holwell ……… …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 58 SESSION 4: REGULATION AND ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING POLICIES RELEVANT FOR CLASSICAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL APPROACHES 4.1 The New Zealand System to Assess the Environmental Benefits and Risks of Releasing New Biocontrol Agents of Arthropods by G.A.C. Ehlers and K.E. Bromfield …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 64 4.2 Practical and Implementable Mechanisms for Compliance with the Nagoya Protocol: Access and Benefit Sharing by D. Smith ……………………………………. 67 4.3 Access and Benefit Sharing: Best Practices for the Use and Exchange of Invertebrate Biological Control Agents by B.I.P. Barratt, P.G. Mason, M.J.W. Cock, J. Klapwijk, J.C. van Lenteren, J. Brodeur, K.A. Hoelmer and G.E. Heimpel ……………... 71 SESSION 5: THE ROLE OF NATIVE AND ALIEN NATURAL ENEMY DIVERSITY IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL 5.1 Native Coccinellids and Biological Control: A Positive Partnership that can be Threatened by the Invasion of an Alien Species by A.A. Grez, T. Zaviezo, C. González, A. O. Soares and T. Poch ……………………………………………………………………. 76 5.2 Predator Invasion Disrupts the Conservation of Natural Enemy Biodiversity by W.E. Snyder …………………………………………………………………………….… 79 5.3 Impacts of North American Native and Introduced Natural Enemies on Population Dynamics of the Invasive Emerald Ash Borer by J.J. Duan, L.S. Bauer and R. G. Van Driesche …………………………………………………………….……….. 80 5.4 Relationships Between Diversity of Natural Enemy Communities and Pest Predation Levels in Different Farming and Landscape Contexts in Hedgerow Network Landscapes by S. Aviron, E.A. Djoudi, A. Alignier, M. Plantegenest and J. Pétillon ….. 82 5.5 Establishment of Mastrus ridens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), an Ecto- parasitoid of Codling Moth, in New Zealand by M. Sandanayaka, J. Charles, V. Davis, A. Chhagan, P. Shaw, R. Wallis, P. Lo, L. Cole, J. Walker and K. Colhoun …………….. 85 5.6 Exotic or Native? Interspecific Competition in the Parasitization of the Fruit Fly Ceratitis cosyra by E.O. De Souza, P. Ayelo, J. Zannou, A.H. Bokonon-Ganta and M.F. Karlsson ………………………………………………………………………………….. 88 SESSION 6: FRONTIERS IN FOREST INSECT CONTROL 6.1 Investigating the Complex Gall Community of Leptocybe invasa by B.P. Hurley, C. Gevers, G. Dittrich-Schröder and B. Slippers ………………………………………….... 92 6.2 Larval Parasitoids for Biocontrol of Invasive Paropsine Defoliatiors by T.M. Withers, G.R. Allen, S.R. Quarrell and A. Pugh …………………………………………. 95 6.3 Biological Control of the Gonipterus scutellatus Species Complex: Testing the Species, Climatic or Phenological Mismatch Hypotheses by M.L. Schröder, H.F. Nahrung, S. A. Lawson, B. Slippers, M.J. Wingfield and B.P. Hurley ……………….….. 99 6.4 A Successful Case of Classical Biological Control of a Gall Wasp by F. Colombari and A. Battisti …………………………………………………………………………… 102 6.5 Biological Control of Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) in Eucalyptus Plantations in Brazil: An Update by C.F. Wilcken, L.R. Barbosa, S.M. Velozo, L.K. Becchi, L.R. Junqueira, L.A.N. de Sá and J.C. Zanuncio …………………. 105 6.6 Ecology and Biological Control of Outbreak Populations of Winter Moth in the Northeastern United States by J.S. Elkinton, G.H. Boettner and H.J. Broadley ……... 108 SESSION 7: BIOCONTROL MARKETPLACE I – FREE TOPICS 7.1 Friend or Foe: The Role of Native, Natural Enemies in the Biological Control of Winter Moth by H.J. Broadley, J.S. Elkinton and G.H. Boettner ……………………... 112 7.2 BiCEP: Progress in a Global Collaboration for the Biological Control of Australian-origin Eucalypt Pests by S.A. Lawson, H. F. Nahrung, M. Griffiths and M. A. Healey …………………………………………………………………………………… 115 7.3 Introduction of Tachardiaephagus somervilli, an Encyrtid Parasitoid, for the Indirect Biological Control of an Invasive Ant on Christmas Island by S.P. Ong, D.J. O’Dowd, T. Detto and P.T. Green …………………………………………………….... 118 7.4 Orius laevigatus Induces Plant Defenses in Sweet Pepper by S. Bouagga, M. Pérez- Hedo, J.L. Rambla, A. Granell and A. Urbaneja ………………………….……………. 121 7.5 The Role of Tomato Plant Volatiles Mediated by Zoophytophagous Mirid Bugs by M. Pérez-Hedo, J.L. Rambla, A. Granell and A. Urbaneja …………………….………. 124 SESSION 8: WEED AND ARTHROPOD BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: MUTUAL BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES 8.1 Arthropod and Weed Biological Control: Mutual Benefits and Common Challenges by H.L. Hinz, M.J.W. Cock, T. Haye and U. Schaffner ………………….… 128 SESSION 9: MAXIMIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL IN ASIA'S RAPIDLY CHANGING AGRO-ENVIRONMENTS 9.1 From Molecule to Landscape - Integrating Molecular Biology and Landscape Ecology to Open New Opportunities for Biological Control in East Asia by G.M. Gurr and M. You …………………………………………………………………………….... 132 9.2 Phyto-pathogens and Soil Nutrients Shape Biological Control
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