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Invasive Fruit Flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Meet in a Biodiversity Hotspot
J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 19(1): 61-69, 2017 ISSN:1302-0250 Invasive Fruit Flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Meet in a Biodiversity Hotspot Carla REGO1* António Franquinho AGUIAR2 Délia CRAVO2 Mário BOIEIRO1 1Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Azorean Biodiversity Group and Department of Agrarian Sciences, University of Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, PORTUGAL 2Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola, Camacha, Madeira, PORTUGAL e-mails: *[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT Oceanic islands’ natural ecosystems worldwide are severely threatened by invasive species. Here we discuss the recent finding of three exotic drosophilids in Madeira archipelago -Acletoxenus formosus (Loew, 1864), Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931) and Zaprionus indianus (Gupta, 1970). Drosophila suzukii and Z. indianus are invasive species responsible for severe economic losses in fruit production worldwide and became the dominant drosophilids in several invaded areas menacing native species. We found that these exotic species are relatively widespread in Madeira but, at present, seem to be restricted to human disturbed environments. Finally, we stress the need to define a monitoring program in the short-term to determine population spread and environmental damages inflicted by the two invasive drosophilids, in order to implement a sustainable and effective control management strategy. Key words: Biological invasions, Drosophila suzukii, invasive species, island biodiversity, Madeira archipelago, Zaprionus indianus. INTRODUCTION Oceanic islands are known to contribute disproportionately to their area for Global biodiversity and by harbouring unique evolutionary lineages and emblematic plants and animals (Grant,1998; Whittaker and Fernández-Palácios, 2007). Nevertheless, many of these organisms are particularly vulnerable to human-mediated changes in their habitats due to their narrow range size, low abundance and habitat specificity (Paulay, 1994). -
Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States
Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States September 1993 OTA-F-565 NTIS order #PB94-107679 GPO stock #052-003-01347-9 Recommended Citation: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States, OTA-F-565 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1993). For Sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office ii Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop, SSOP. Washington, DC 20402-9328 ISBN O-1 6-042075-X Foreword on-indigenous species (NIS)-----those species found beyond their natural ranges—are part and parcel of the U.S. landscape. Many are highly beneficial. Almost all U.S. crops and domesticated animals, many sport fish and aquiculture species, numerous horticultural plants, and most biologicalN control organisms have origins outside the country. A large number of NIS, however, cause significant economic, environmental, and health damage. These harmful species are the focus of this study. The total number of harmful NIS and their cumulative impacts are creating a growing burden for the country. We cannot completely stop the tide of new harmful introductions. Perfect screening, detection, and control are technically impossible and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, the Federal and State policies designed to protect us from the worst species are not safeguarding our national interests in important areas. These conclusions have a number of policy implications. First, the Nation has no real national policy on harmful introductions; the current system is piecemeal, lacking adequate rigor and comprehensiveness. Second, many Federal and State statutes, regulations, and programs are not keeping pace with new and spreading non-indigenous pests. -
Whiteflies in the Greenhouse Jen White
Entfact-456 Whiteflies in the greenhouse Jen White General Biology Worldwide, there are over 1500 Whiteflies are “true bugs” (Hemiptera) species of whitefly, most of which are that feed on plant sap, much like aphids. inconspicuous and never reach densities Adults are very small (1/16 - 1/10 inch) high enough to cause damage to their host with powdery white wings. Females lay plants. A few species, however, are major eggs directly on the undersides of plant pests. Here in Kentucky, the most notable leaves. The eggs hatch into tiny are 1) the sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia “crawlers” that walk a short distance before settling at a tabaci), and 2) the greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes feeding location. These nymphs lose their ability walk, and vaporarorium). The former is a confusing complex of remain in the same location for the rest of their development “biotypes” (currently considered multiple species) that are until they pupate and emerge as winged adults (Figure 1). The physically indistinguishable, but which have distinct biological entire whitefly life cycle takes about 3 weeks under favorable differences. For example, B biotype is also sometimes known as conditions, allowing populations to build quickly. Whiteflies do the silverleaf whitefly (also known as Bemisia argentifolii) not have a dormant stage that can withstand freezing because of the distinctive silvering damage it inflicts on plant temperatures. In climates that have winter freezes, such as leaves. B biotype is currently the most common in North Kentucky, whiteflies are year-round pests only in greenhouses. America, but a second biotype, Q biotype, is also present, and of particular concern because Q biotype is highly resistant to many classes of insecticide. -
Arthropod Pest Management in Greenhouses and Interiorscapes E
Arthropod Pest Management in Greenhouses and Interiorscapes E-1011E-1011 OklahomaOklahoma CooperativeCooperative ExtensionExtension ServiceService DivisionDivision ofof AgriculturalAgricultural SciencesSciences andand NaturalNatural ResourcesResources OklahomaOklahoma StateState UniversityUniversity Arthropod Pest Management in Greenhouses and Interiorscapes E-1011 Eric J. Rebek Extension Entomologist/ Ornamentals and Turfgrass Specialist Michael A. Schnelle Extension Ornamentals/ Floriculture Specialist ArthropodArthropod PestPest ManagementManagement inin GreenhousesGreenhouses andand InteriorscapesInteriorscapes Insects and their relatives cause major plant ing a hand lens. damage in commercial greenhouses and interi- Aphids feed on buds, leaves, stems, and roots orscapes. Identification of key pests and an un- by inserting their long, straw-like, piercing-suck- derstanding of appropriate control measures are ing mouthparts (stylets) and withdrawing plant essential to guard against costly crop losses. With sap. Expanding leaves from damaged buds may be tightening regulations on conventional insecti- curled or twisted and attacked leaves often display cides and increasing consumer sensitivity to their chlorotic (yellow-white) speckles where cell con- use in public spaces, growers must seek effective tents have been removed. A secondary problem pest management alternatives to conventional arises from sugary honeydew excreted by aphids. chemical control. Management strategies cen- Leaves may appear shiny and become sticky from tered around -
Bionomics and Ecology of Bemisia Tabaci (Sternorrhyncha
Eur. J. Entomol. 95: 519-527, 1998 ISSN 1210-5759 Bionomics and ecologyBemisia of tabaci (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae) in Italy D omenico BOSCO1 and P iero CACIAGLI2 1 Dipartimento di Entomologia e Zoologia Applicate all’Ambiente “C. Vidano”, Universita di Torino, via L. da Vinci 44,1-10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy 2Istituto di Fitovirologia Applicata, CNR, Strada delle Cacce 73, 10126 Torino, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] Aleyrodidae,Bemisia tabaci, developmental time, cold resistance, overwintering, Italy, distribution Abstract. The development of a B-biotype Bemisia tabaci Italian colony was studied on bean at 9 con stant temperatures (15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35°C). The developmental time from egg-to-adult varied from 70 days at 16°C to 22 at 26°C and higher temperatures. A thermal requirement for egg-to-adult de velopment of 307 day-degrees was calculated, based on a lower developmental threshold of 11.53°C. The survival of egg, nymph and adult whiteflies was investigated at 0, 2, 4, and 6°C on broad bean for periods of 1-8 days. The adult was the most cold-sensitive stage, while the egg and nymph showed a similar level of cold resistance. The effect of sub-lethal cold stress of 4-8 days at 4°C on eggs and nymphs was studied. After exposure to low temperatures, whiteflies needed longer developmental times, from 5 to 8 days more. The presence of B. tabaci under outdoor conditions in Italy was investigated with field surveys and correlated with climatic data; the whitefly species was found in open field conditions only south of the 41° parallel, in areas characterised by less than 5 frost days per winter and by annual mean temperatures > 16°C. -
Lake Worth Lagoon
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 1 PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PARK ...................................... 1 Park Significance .............................................................................. 1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE PLAN ................................................... 2 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OVERVIEW ................................................. 7 Management Authority and Responsibility ............................................ 7 Park Management Goals .................................................................... 8 Management Coordination ................................................................. 8 Public Participation ........................................................................... 9 Other Designations ........................................................................... 9 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMPONENT INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 15 RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ASSESSMENT ................................... 15 Natural Resources .......................................................................... 16 Topography ............................................................................... 20 Geology .................................................................................... 21 Soils ......................................................................................... 21 Minerals ................................................................................... -
Life History Parameters of Trialeurodes Vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) at Different Environmental Conditions on Two Bean Cultivars
View metadata, citation452 and similar papers at core.ac.uk July - August 2009brought to you by CORE provided by Wageningen University & Research Publications ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS Life History Parameters of Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) at Different Environmental Conditions on Two Bean Cultivars MARIA R MANZANO1, JOOP C VAN LENTEREN2 1Depto. de Ciencias Agrícolas, Univ. Nacional de Colombia, sede Palmira, Cra. 32 Chapinero via a Candelaria, Colombia; [email protected]; 2Lab. of Entomology, Wageningen University, PO Box 8031, 6700 EH Wageningen, The Netherlands; [email protected] Edited by André L Lourenção - IAC Neotropical Entomology 38(4):452-458 (2009) Estadísticos VItales de Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) a Diferentes Condiciones Ambientales en Dos Cultivares de Fríjol RESUMEN - Se determinaron los estadísticos vitales de la mosca blanca Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), una plaga importante del cultivo del fríjol en Colombia, en cámara ambiental en dos cultivares (cv.) de fríjol. La longevidad media de T. vaporariorum en el cv. Chocho fue mayor a 19°C (22.6 d), intermedia a 22°C (17.5 d) y menor a 26°C (5.9 d). En el cv. ICA-Pijao la longevidad media fue de 35.5 d a 19°C. La fecundidad media total fue 8.6, 32.6 y 33.3 huevos por hembra a 19, 22 y 26°C, respectivamente en el cv. Chocho. La fecundidad en el cv ICA-Pijao fue mucho más alta, 127. 2 huevos por hembra, a 19°C, que la del cv. Chocho. La tasa intrínseca de crecimiento poblacional (rm) fue más alta a 22°C (0.061), intermedia a 19°C (0.044) y más baja a 26°C (0.035) en el cv. -
The Debate on Plant and Crop Biodiversity and Biotechnology
The Debate on Plant and Crop Biodiversity and Biotechnology Klaus Ammann, [email protected] Version from December 15, 2017, 480 full text references, 117 pp. ASK-FORCE contribution No. 11 Nearly 470 references on biodiversity and Agriculture need still to be screened and selected. Contents: 1. Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2. The needs for biodiversity – the general case ................................................................................................................ 3 3. Relationship between biodiversity and ecological parameters ..................................................................................... 5 4. A new concept of sustainability ....................................................................................................................................... 6 4.1. Revisiting the original Brundtland definition of sustainable development ...............................................................................................................7 4.2. Redefining Sustainability for Agriculture and Technology, see fig. 1 .........................................................................................................................8 5. The Issue: unnecessary stigmatization of GMOs .......................................................................................................... 12 6. Types of Biodiversity ...................................................................................................................................................... -
Eight New State Records of Aleyrodine Whiteflies Found in Clark County, Nevada and Three Newly Described Taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 10-15-2010 Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae) John W. Dooley III Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, [email protected] Susan Lambrecht San Jose State University, [email protected] Jeffrey Honda San Jose State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Entomology Commons Dooley, John W. III; Lambrecht, Susan; and Honda, Jeffrey, "Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae)" (2010). Insecta Mundi. 660. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/660 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0140 Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae) John W. Dooley III United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine 389 Oyster Point Blvd, Suite 2A South San Francisco, CA 94080 Susan Lambrecht Department of Biological Science San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0100 Jeffrey Honda Biological Science San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0100 Date of Issue: October 15, 2010 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL John W. -
Release, Establishment, and Monitoring of Bemisia Tabaci Natural
58 Hoelmer and Goolsby ___________________________________________________________________ RELEASE, ESTABLISHMENT AND MONITORING OF BEMISIA TABACI NATURAL ENEMIES IN THE UNITED STATES K. Hoelmer1 and J. Goolsby2 1USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier- sur-Lez, France 2USDA, Agricultural Research Service, c/o Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Entomology, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia INTRODUCTION Severe infestations of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) [Biotype ‘B’] (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) (=Bemisia argentifolii Bellows and Perring) occurred following its introduction into the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s. Bemisia tabaci’s broad host range and its multivoltine development overwhelmed the then-current management practices and the ability of native natural enemies to limit whitefly populations. In response, a multi-agency national research and action plan was developed with par- ticipation by U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies (Agricultural Research Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service), State departments of agriculture, universities, and private industry (Faust, 1992; Henneberry et al., 1998). Biological control was a major component of the plan. Colonization of new, non-indigenous natural enemies of B. tabaci in the United States was complicated by these various factors: (1) the host range of B. tabaci included a large number of species of crops, ornamentals, weeds, -
Genetic Diversity of Bemisia Tabaci Genn. Characterized by Analysis of ISSR and 2 Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit I at Qassim, Saudia Arabia
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.29.424654; this version posted December 29, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Genetic diversity of Bemisia tabaci Genn. characterized by analysis of ISSR and 2 cytochrome c oxidase subunit I at Qassim, Saudia Arabia. 3 4 5 Nagdy F. Abdel-Baky12; J. K. Brown3 ; M. A. Aldeghairi1; M. I. Motawei1; Medhat 6 Rehan1,4* 7 8 1Department of Plant Production and Protection, College of Agriculture and 9 Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, Burydah 51452, Saudi Arabia 10 11 2Economic Entomology Dept., Fac. Agric., Mansoura University, Mansoura-35516, 12 Egypt. 13 14 3 School of Plant Sciences, 1140 E. South Campus Dr.,University of Arizona, Tucson 15 AZ 85721 USA 16 4Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516, 17 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt. 18 19 20 21 * Corresponding Author: Mailing address: Department of Plant Production and 22 Protection, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, 23 Saudi Arabia. Telephone: +966547359916. E-mail: 24 [email protected]. Or [email protected]; Telephone: +966557857877. 25 E-mail: [email protected] Or [email protected] 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.29.424654; this version posted December 29, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. -
The Generic Status of Oxyanthus Gossweileri (Rubiaceae) from Angola
S. Afr. J. Bo\.. 1996.62(1): 17- 22 17 The generic status of Oxyanthus gossweileri (Rubiaceae) from Angola E. Robbrecht*, S. Huysmans' and E. Figueiredo' ·Nationale Plantentuin van Selgie, Domein van Bouchout, 8-1860 Meise, Belgium iKatholieke Universiteit Leuven , [nstituutvDor Plantkunde, Laboratorium vear Plantensystematiek, Kard. Mercierlaan 92. 8 -3001 Heverlee. Belgium 21nstituto de Investigagao Cientiffca Tropical, Centro de Botanica, Trav. Conde da Ribeira 9, P-1300 Lisbon, Portugal Received 26 JUlie 1995; revised 6 October 1995 Oxyanthu5 gossweileri from Angola has been described from a single specimen collected in 1906. A search in herbaria holding Angolan collections has revealed an additional flowering specimen, allowing a sound morphological and pollen morphological investigation. It is concluded that 0. g055weileri must be kept in the Gardenieae - Gardeniinae but deserves generic segregation. A new genus Ganguelia is described and the necessary new combin~ alion made. G. g055weileri is a pyrrhophytic geofrutex with densely hairy, suborbicular leaf blades with subpalmale venation. ChoroJogically, Ganguelia is endemic in the western part of the Zambezian Region; in the Rubiaceae, the mono specific Calanda (Knoxieae) has a very similar narrow distribution. Ganguelia seems to exhibit two poJlen morphological features which are not yet observed among the Gardenieae genera with tetrad poilen, namely, the ± acalymmate condition of the tetrads and the colpoidorate grains. However, these latter occur together with the pororate ones characteristic for Gardenieae tetrads. A part of the tetrads are decussate; this arrangment, not yet reported from the Rubiaceae, was previously overlooked in several genera and is hence not a peculiarity of the new genus. Keywords: Acalymnate pollen tetrads, decussate pollen tetrads, Ganguelia gen.