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Recent Research on Invasive Weeds at the European Biological Control Laboratory (EBCL)
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
Lincoln Smith, Marie-Claude Bon, Gaylord Desurmont, Javid Kashefi,
René Sforza, Mélanie Tannières, Massimo Cristofaro, Francesca Marini,
John Goolsby, Brian Rector, Biljana Vidovic, Daniel E. Winkler, Patrick J. Moran
Solutions from
Nature
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EBCL labs in France and Greece
Other USDA-supported labs:
Argentina – South American Biological Control Laboratory (FuEDEI)
Australia – Australian Biological Control Laboratory
China - Sino-American Biocontrol Lab
CABI – Delemont, Switzerland
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OBCL Newsletter
DOWNLOAD AT:
http://www.ars-ebcl.org
Overseas Biological Control
Laboratories Australian Biological Control Laboratory
(ABCL), Australia
European Biological Control Laboratory
(EBCL), France
Foundation for the Study of Invasive Species
(FuEDEI), Argentina
Sino-American Biocontrol Laboratory
(SinoABL), China
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European Biological Control Laboratory
Quarantine for insects and pathogens
Field garden experiments Glasshouses
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Weed Targets
French broom (Genista monspessulana)
Giant reed (Arundo donax)
Hoary cress (Lepidium draba)
Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
Yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
Also support:
African wire grass (Ventenata dubia)
Russian thistle (Salsola tragus)
Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.)
Scotch thistle (Onopordum spp.)
Swallow-worts (Vincetoxicum spp.)
? Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii)
Solutions from
Nature
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French Broom (Genista monspessulana)
http://plants.usda.gov
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Chemical ecology of psyllid Arytinnis hakani (Gaylord Desurmont)
Chloé Descombe
French broom
Genista monspessulana
Specificity & impact of weevil
Lepidapion argentatum (René Sforza)
www.gonhs.org/Lepidapionargentatum.htm
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French broom killed by psyllid (Arytinnis hakani) in Australia
4 Sept. 2009, A. Sheppard, CSIRO
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© Br. Alfred Brousseau, Saint Mary's College
French Broom Psyllid (Arytinnis hakani)
Kills Fr. broom in Australia.
27 lupine species have been tested.
Can develop on some lupines.
Field testing in France.
Laboratory choice tests:
Lupines vs. French broom
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Develops in seeds ... T. Thomann
and in stem galls
René Sforza (EBCL), Thierry Thomann (CSIRO)
French Broom Weevil
Lepidapion argentatum
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seed
s / p
od
Exit hole
present
Larva present Uninfested
viable
aborted
consumed
40% reduction of viable seed
Impact of Lepidapion argentatum on French broom
seed production
Solutions from
Nature R. Sforza
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Presence of galls on 6 Broom species,
and 2 lupine species
Ste
ms w
ith g
alls
(%
)
6 Brooms 2 Lupines Thermopsis Astragalus
Solutions from
Nature
Host Plant Specificity of Lepidapion argentatum on 32 plant species
R. Sforza
No-Choice Oviposition Tests
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Giant Reed (Arundo donax)
Glen county CDFA gall wasp release site
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Biological Control Agents for Arundo
Stem tip-galling wasp Tetramesa romana
adventive in southern CA; Released in TX in 2007;
20% decrease biomass in 5 yrs
Root- and stem-feeding armored scale
Rhizaspidiotus donacis - Released in TX, CA
Goolsby et al. 2015. Biocontrol Science and Technology
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Shipments of Arundo Agents
Javid Kashefi, Alex Chaskopoulou
John Goolsby, Madeline Marshall (ARS, Edinburg, TX)
Leaf sheath miner Lasioptera donacis
Petition approved
Oviposition by single females to
establish nematode-free
infestations for shipment to Texas
Tripius gyraloura, 1) Cluster of parasitic juveniles (arrow)
in a dissected female fly; 2) Free-living infective female.
Scale-bars: 1) 144 mm; 20 39 mm.
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Ave
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Average Cryptonevra sp. adults caught on sticky traps (7 sites)
Arundo Shoot Fly
Gaylord Desurmont
John Goolsby, (ARS, Edinburg, TX)
Arundo fly Cryptonevra sp.
• Collection of flies from
Phragmites and Arundo
• Seasonal abundance
• Potential efficacy
• Integrative taxonomy
(morphology & DNA)
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Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
Frederiksen S. 1986. Revision of Taeniatherum (Poaceae).
Nordic Journal of Botany 6(4):389-397.
T. caput-medusae T. asperum T. crinitum
R. Sforza, B.G. Rector, S. Novak
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Eriophyid mite on medusahead
Brian Rector, BBCA & cooperators
Aculodes altamurgiensis
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Other Prospective Agents of Medusahead
Midge? But so far, only Eulophid
parasitoids have been reared out
Francesca Marini & Massimo Cristofaro (BBCA), Javid Kashefi (EBCL)
Moth larva
inside leaf
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Hoary Cress: Lepidium draba
Root Galling Weevil
Ceutorhynchus assimilis
One host race strictly associated with L. draba,
distributed in Southern France/Northern Spain
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7
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29 (19)
30 (1) 28 (1)
27 (9) 26 (1) 25 (1)
24 (1) 23 (3)
22 (3)
21 (15)
20 (1) 31 (1)
19 (5)
18 (1) 17 (1)
16 (7)
15 (1) 14 (4)
13 (5)
12 (6)
11 (2)
10 (3)
(6)
6 (1) (1)
5 (1) 4 (5)
(1) 2 (1)
(1) 0.0005 substitutions/site
96, 88
61, 57
96, 90
86, -
60, -
61
59, 51
53, -
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65, 60
97, 95
98, 98
64, 66
63, 59
59, -
62, 61
Molecular Genetics
distinguished a
Cryptic Species
Fumanal et al., 2005 Journal of Biotechnology 19:15-19. Marie-Claude Bon, EBCL
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Yellow Starthistle Centaurea solstitalis
J. DiTomaso, UC Davis
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Yellow starthistle seedhead weevil, Larinus filiformis
Multiplied weevil from Bulgaria for future
testing.
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Russian thistle Salsola australis
Salsola collina
Salsola gobicola
Salsola tragus
Salsola ryanii
Salsola paulsenii
[not S. kali]
Salsola types
Hrusa & Gaskin. 2008.
Madroño 55(2) 113–131.
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Russian thistle (Salsola tragus)
BBCA conducting field
host specificity test in
Italy.
Established colony at EBCL
from Greece.
Eriophyid mite
Aceria salsolae
L. Smith (EBCL)
F. Marini, M. Crisotofaro (BBCA)
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Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii)
first identified in 1927 in the Coachella Valley, California
It is believed that the species was accidently introduced with the importation of date palms
from the Middle East
Likely origin from Morocco or Jordan (ddRADseq)
Daniel Winkler (University of California, Irvine)
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Alexandra Chaskopoulou mosquitoes & sand flies
EBCL scientists
Marie-Claude Bon mol. genetics Insects leader
René Sforza entomology Weeds leader
[vacant] entomology
Javid Kashefi exploration
Gaylord Desurmont quarantine / entomology (chemical ecology)
Mélanie Tannières microbiology
Dawn Gundersen-Rindal Director, [email protected]
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Franck Hérard Entomology Retired 12/17