Eustenopus villosus(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) for Biological Control of Yellow Starthistle (Asteraceae: Cardueae) in North America
作者:
L. Fornasari,
C. E. Turner,
L. A. Andres,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 4
页码: 1187-1194
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1093/ee/20.4.1187
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: Insecta;Eustenopus villosus;yellow starthistle;biological control
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
The host specificity ofEustenopus villosus(Boheman) was studied in the laboratory using field-collected adults from Greece and overwintered progeny of these adults. No-choice and two-choice host specificity tests were carried out in the laboratory. Thirty-four plant species, in addition to yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialisL.) (as the control) from Greece and the United States, were tested. Under no-choice test conditions in the laboratory, adults showed to some degree a rather broad feeding spectrum but with heaviest feeding on yellow starthistle. Oviposition was restricted to some species in the genusCentaurea, with heaviest oviposition on yellow starthistle. Under two-choice conditions (test plant caged with yellow starthistle control), oviposition occurred only on yellow starthistle. The literature on field hosts and host specificity tests indicate a high level of larval host specificity to yellow starthistle. A laboratory study showed that the combined effects of adult and larval feeding on yellow starthistle can reduce seed production by 98.8% under laboratory conditions; this also indicates that the species has excellent potential as a biological control agent.
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