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Research Project:
DISCOVERY, BIOLOGY & ECOLOGY OF NATURAL ENEMIES OF INSECT PEST OF CROPS, URBAN & NATURAL AREAS
Location:
EUROPEAN BIOCONTROL RESEARCH
Project Number: 212-22000-019-00
Project Type:
Appropriated
Start Date: Feb 17, 2002
End Date: Aug 31, 2005
Objective:
Discover new biological control agents and develop methods with which they can be used to suppress invasive insect pests. Priority targets currently include: Asian longhorned beetle, codling moth, apple leafrollers, mirid plant bugs, tephritid fruit flies, wheat stem sawfly, Formosan subterranean termite, Soybean aphid, diamondback moth, brown citrus aphid, olive fruit fly, and mealybugs.
Approach:
Three related approaches will be utilized.
1) Discover and characterize new species/biotypes of natural enemies by conducting foreign exploration in Europe, Asia, Africa, and other areas guided by host relationships, climate matching tools, field surveys, and consultations with specialists and local foreign contacts.
2) Conduct basic biological, behavioral, genetic and ecological studies to evaluate impact of natural enemies on target pests and non-targets using various laboratory and field study methods, and evaluating the impact of environmental factors which limit or increase their effectiveness.
3) Guided by these studies, collect selected natural enemies with mass collections from selected geographical populations /biotypes matching the target pest populations and deliver these to cooperators in the U.S. for colonization and evaluation. Project number formerly 4012-22000-019 in mode code 4012-05.
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