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Termite Report 2009 Prepared by: Tim Myles, Ph.D. Termite Control Officer Community Design and Development Services, Building Services, City of Guelph COUNTRY CLUB GOLFVIEW R D . GLEN BR OOK D R . ISLIN GTON April, 2010 AVE. FER N D ALE WOOLWICH ST. D ALEBR OOK PL. SPEED RIVER W OOD LAW N R D . W GOLFVIEWRD. W OOD LAW N R D . E W OOD LAW N D EVONSHIRE W IN D SOR ST. CT. C EMETER Y GUELPH JUNCTION RAILWAY FAIRWAY LANE WINDERMERE INVERNESS DR. INVERNESS KINGS ETON PL.ETON BALMOR AL D R . LEY ST. COUNTRY CLUB GOLF C OU R SE C T. BERKLEY PL. WINDSOR SPEED RIVER RIVERVIEW PLACE BALMORALDR. WOOLWICH ST. WOOLWICH W AVER LEY D R . MARILYN DR. KEN SIN GTON ST. D ELTA ST. R IVER SID E PAR K WOLSELEY RD. LAN GSIDST. E VERMONT ST. BAILEY AVE. DAKOTA DR. DAKOTA KENSINGTON ST. KENSINGTON RD N ST. STEVENSON COLLINGWOODST. KENSINGTON ST. KENSINGTON METCALFEST. CLIVE AVE. CLIVE DELHI ST. C ATH C AR T ST. SEN IOR BEATTIE ST BEATTIE LILAC PL. C EN TR E SPEED RIVER SH AFTESBU R Y AVE. KATHLEEN ST. KATHLEEN BAILEY AVE. BAILEY FREEMAN AVE. FREEMAN WAVERLY DR. WAVERLY DUMBARTON ST. DUMBARTON VICTORIA RD. N RD. VICTORIA KNIGHTSWOOD BLVD. KNIGHTSWOOD SHERIDAN ST. SHERIDAN FR EEMAN AVE. RIVERVIEW DR. ST. DUMBARTON RIVERSIDE PARK SU MAC PL. BRIGHTON ST. BRIGHTON KITCHENER AVE. ST. RENFIELD GEMMEL NELSON RD. LN. AVE. GLAD STON E AVE. MARLBOROUGH GLADSTONE SPEEDVALE AVE. E ACORN PL. CHESTER ST. CT SHERWOOD DR. ALEXANDRA KNIGHTSWOOD MANHATTAN BLVD. OAKWOOD STANLEY ST. C H ESTN U T PL. PHILIP AVE. ANN ST. METCALFEST. BALSAM D R . SPRUCE PL. SHERWOOD DR. BARTON ST. ST. EXHIBITION PAUL AVE. WALNUT DR. MAC AVE. TAMARACK HIGHVIEW PL. GLENWOOD GLENWOOD AVE. KATHLEEN ST. KATHLEEN PL. PETER AVE. STULL AVE. DR. PINE VERNEY ST. RD. MARLBOROUGH EARL ST. EMMA ST. EMMA ST. N ST. STEVENSON H AW TH OR N E ROBERTSON DR. ROBERTSON PL. ST. ANDREW ST. SUNNYLEA CRES. LIN D EN PL. CALLANDER DR. CALLANDER ORCHARD CRES. CLARENCE ST. AVE. DIVISION ST. PL. TERRY BLVD. TERRY DRUMMOND PL. TER R Y BLVD . CALLANDER DR. AVONDALE DANWOOD SUMMIT RENFIELD ST. RENFIELD GEORGE ST. WOOLWICH ST. WOOLWICH DUFFERIN ST. DUFFERIN W ALN U TDR. PRINCESS ST. PRINCESS ERAMOSA RD. CLARKE ST. W CLARKE ST. E CRES. SUNNYLEA KIRSTEN DR. KIRSTEN GREENVIEW ST. JOHN ST. HOMEWOOD PLEASAN T R D . HEALTH CENTRE RD. LINCOLN CRES. PLEASANT WESTMINSTER TOBEY AVE. POWELL ST. W POWELL ST. E ST. DELHI LINCOLN CRES. PIPE ST. METCALFEST. TORRANCE CRES. EXHIBITION SPEED RIVER LAVERNE AVE. PARK C R ES. MEYER TIFFANY ST. W TIFFANY ST. E DR. VICTORIA RD. VICTORIA SKOV DR. MARCON ST. CAVELL AVE. GUELPH COTE CENTRAL ST. CENTRAL STEVENSON ST. N EXTRA ST. KERR ST. GENERAL HOSPITAL EXHIBITION ST. EXHIBITION KATHLEEN ST. ST. KATHLEEN PL. CALLANDER DR. CALLANDER TIPPERARY PL. MONT ST. C R ES. CARDIGAN ST. SPRING ST. GLENHILL MEYER D R . WOOLWICH ST. WOOLWICH McTAGUE ST. ERIN AVE. DUFFERIN ST. DUFFERIN VANCOUVER DR. VANCOUVER OTTAWA CALGARY AVE. CALGARY DUBLIN ST. DUBLIN WESTOBY LON D ON R D . W LONDON RD. E ST. HAVELOCK CARDIGAN ST. CADILLAC DR. LANE ST. LANE DERRY ST. EDWIN ST. PL. SHIRLEY AVE. SHIRLEY BENNETT AVE. BRUNSWICK BENNETT AVE. AVE. CHARLES ST. ARTHUR ST. N PEARL ST. ST. KING EDMONTON DR. GARTH KIRKLAND ST. R OSED ALE AVE. WOOLWICH ST. NORWICH ST. W ST. QUEEN ERAMOSA RD. GARTH ST. PARK AVE. GREEN NORWICH ST. E VAN C OU VER D R . GREEN ST. NORWICH ST. E ST. CATHERINE ST. R YAN AVE. ARDMAY SUFFOLK ST. W LEMON ST. LEMON ST. WILLIAM ST. WILLIAM KING EDWARD PL WINSTON CRES. WINSTON FRANKLIN AVE FRANKLIN CASSINO AVE. C ASSIN O AVE. AVE. CASSINO AVE. MITCHELL ST. MITCHELL LIVERPOOL ST. SUFFOLK ST. E SPEED RIVER SPEED METCALFE ST. METCALFE WINSTON CRES. DEL MAR BLVD. ANTHONY VICTORIA RD, N N RD, VICTORIA CT. STUART ST. STUART KING ST. KING MON TR EAL R D . OXFORD ST. DUNKIRK AVE. DUNKIRK LANE ST. LANE KAR A LEE LAURINE AVE. LAURINE QUEEN ST. QUEEN CRESTWOOD PL. CRESTWOOD GLASGOW ST. N PALMER ST. N OR MAN D Y D R . PAISLEY ST. YARMOUTH ST. DUBLIN ST. N WOOLWICH ST. ARTHUR ST. N CAMBRIDGE ST. BAKER ST. NORFOLK ST. PAR KH OLM AVE. FRANCHETTO CHAPEL LN. BLVD. NEW ST. JANE ST JANE COMMERCIAL H EPBU R N AVE.ST JACKSON ST. QUEBEC ST. SPEED RIVER DR. LOUISA CORK ST. W HEFFERNAN ST. DOUGLAS ST. GRANGE ST. CLARA ST. CLARA PROSPECT STEVENSON ST. N N ST. STEVENSON Executive Summary Guelph’s Termite Management Areas. Guelph has three termite management areas encompassing nearly 900 properties on 50 blocks. Red zone blocks have known termite infestations while blue zone blocks are buffer areas. Each block is assigned a sector number (Fig. 1). Population Suppression. In 2009 measureable progress was made in area-wide termite population suppression. Total termite trap yield in 2009 was 489,810 compared to 705,261 in 2008, indicating a 30.5% termite population decline. This trend was consistent across most sectors (Fig. 2). Management Practices. Management practices in 2009 included: monitoring and trapping, installation of new traps in the inner blue zone, reductive trapping, nematode treatments, a yard wood cleanup weekend, notices of required yard wood removal, inspections for sale of properties, issuance of disposal permits, shed treatments, pole treatments, stump and tree removals, and debris clean up along the Guelph Junction Rail line and park margins, and specification for chemical treatments on several properties. Pattern of Termite Activity. The pattern of termite activity remained similar in 2009 to 2008, with most activity in the Woolwich management area in the sectors north of Tiffany St. (Fig. 3) and in the Emma-Pine area (Fig. 4), while activity in the area south of Tiffany Street and in the Windermere area remained minimal and restricted to relatively few properties (Figs. 3 & 5). Nematode Treatments. Spring and fall nematode treatments were conducted on 154 properties with the entomopathogenic nematode species, Steinernema carpocapsae. Yard Wood Cleanup Weekend. A large area-wide yard wood cleanup weekend was held on July 17- 20 with 11 bins of material removed. Five bins were also provided for three smaller cleanups. In total 16 bins and 37.3 tonnes of wood waste were removed in 2009. This was down from a total of 35 bins and 62.25 tonnes removed in 2008, indicating a declining need for large scale clean up weekends. Thus in the future, bins will be provided only for smaller prescribed cleanup projects. Notices of Required Wood Removal. Notices of required wood removal were a new component of the program this year. Notices were sent to an initial group of 43 property owners, mostly for removal of mulch, stumps, and infested landscaping ties or trees. Compliance has generally been good, although follow up has been required in many instances. A second set of notices will be sent in 2010. Shed Treatments. Another new component of the program this year was a shed survey and shed treatment program. As a trial run, five infested or at risk sheds were treated in 2009. In 2010, 25 shed treatments are planned. Letters will be sent to selected residents asking for authorization. Debris Removal and Disposal Permits. Many property owners participated in ongoing yard wood and renovation related debris removal, with 265 disposal permits issued during the 2009 season. Additional tree and stump removals were conducted by both private owners and the operations department. Woody debris was also cleaned up along the Guelph Junction Rail line and margins of Goldie Mill Park and Herb Markle Park. i Chemical Treatments. Structural infestations were discovered on 15 properties. Chemical treatments, at property owner’s expense, were conducted on at least 12 of these, structural renovations or spot treatments on others. Guelph Hydro installed borate rods in utility poles on 10 properties. Inner Blue Zone Trap Installations. Three traps were installed per property on 86 additional properties of the inner blue zone to improve capacity for early detection in areas bordering known active sectors. Newly Detected Areas. Termites were newly detected in two areas peripheral to existing red zones. The first of these was a group of five properties on the west side of the Emma Pine Area. Termites were also detected for the first time on the east side of Sector 10. In both cases, this appears to represent improved detection due to better monitoring and awareness within the inner blue zone rather than actual termite expansion within the past year. Experimental Permits. Applications were submitted for two federal experimental permits to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency in 2009. One permit was for zinc borate as an alternative active for Trap-Treat-Release. A second permit was for Metarhizim anisopliae, a fungal pathogen and agent of green muscardine disease of insects. Several detailed submissions were made related to the permit approval process. In April 2010, a research authorization was approved to use zinc borate. Residents will be asked to sign experimental co-operator letters prior to conducting any experimental treatments. Reclassification and Constriction of some Termite Management Areas. Continuous inactivity in certain areas allows us to begin reclassifying certain areas and to start constricting termite management areas. Thus, sectors 000, 00, 0, 1, 9, 17, 29, 33, 38, 45, and 46, or portions thereof, formerly blue, have been reclassified as white zones. Parts of sectors 2, 22, and 42, previously classified as red, but those parts never previously infested, have been reclassified as blue zones. Parts of sectors 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 36, 37, and 42 have been designated as ―continuously inactive‖, defined as being inactive for three years and more than three properties from any known termite activity for three years, indicated by green hatching (Figs.
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    Mycosphere 8(1): 31–37 (2017) www.mycosphere.org ISSN 2077 7019 Article Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/8/1/4 Copyright © Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences Metarhizium dendrolimatilis, a novel Metarhizium species parasitic on Dendrolimus sp. larvae Chen WH1, 2, Han YF2, Liang JD3, Liang ZQ2 and Jin DC1 1 Institute of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China 2 Institute of Fungus Resources, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China 3Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China Chen WH, Han YF, Liang JD, Liang ZQ, Jin DC 2017 –Metarhizium dendrolimatilis, a novel Metarhizium species parasitic on Dendrolimus sp. larvae. Mycosphere 8(1), 31–37, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/8/1/4 Abstract A novel species of the genus Meatrhizium, Metarhizium dendrolimatilis, parasitic on Dendrolimus sp. larvae, collected in Huaxi, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, is described based on morphological and phylogenetic evidences. This species differs morphologically from other species in the genus by its determinate synnemata, ellipsoidal conidia, and globose phialides. The phylogenetic analyses based on four loci (EF1a, RPB1, RPB2 and TUB), strongly support the novel species designation of this fungus within the Metarhizium genus, Metarhizium dendrolimatilis sp. nov. Key words – entomopathogenic fungi – morphology – multi-gene – phylogeny Introduction The genus Metarhizium (Metschn.) Sorokin consists of a diverse group of asexual entomopathogenic fungi with a global distribution and a wide range of host insects. The organism has been used as bio pesticide (Roberts & St. Leger 2004) for mite and tick control (Maniania et al.
  • Expert Consultation and Risk Assessment on the Importation and Large-Scale Use of Mycopesticides Against Locusts

    Expert Consultation and Risk Assessment on the Importation and Large-Scale Use of Mycopesticides Against Locusts

    Report Expert Consultation and Risk Assessment on the Importation and Large-Scale Use of Mycopesticides against Locusts Rome, 2-7 December 2001 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2002 2 Table of Contents PART 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................4 Objectives of the Expert Consultation.......................................................................................................................4 Opening .....................................................................................................................................................................5 Agenda and Chair.......................................................................................................................................................5 Special Considerations ...............................................................................................................................................5 Part 2 Use of Metarhizium against Locusts and Grasshoppers..........................................................................6 Recent developments in the use of Metarhizium ..............................................................................................6 Similarity of Metarhizium isolates.............................................................................................................................7 Efficacy.......................................................................................................................................................................8