August 21, 2023

Community science (iNat) tracking plant/biocontrol interactions in S/SE Asia

Article here:
https://cabiagbio.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43170-023-00171-5

Summary:
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-citizen-science-natural-enemy-invasive.html

Dr. @matthewcock is the author/researcher that used iNat to monitor the distribution of a biocontrol agent in S/SE Asia and found it establishing in areas previously unreported where the host plant (Chromolaena odorata AKA Siam weed), a pioneering shrub from the Americas, has been one of the worst invasive plants in the Old World humid tropics and subtropics. Looking forward to this project yielding similar discoveries!

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February 4, 2023

Running list of resources for included organisms

Relating host specificity testing to field risk for nontarget plants in
9 North American weed biocontrol organisms

Cryptostroma corticale (sooty bark disease):
https://ppo.puyallup.wsu.edu/sbd/

Rhinocyllus conicus ("nodding thistle receptacle weevil"):
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/agents/rhinocyllus_conicus.pdf
Impacted locally indigenous species:
Cirsium brevistylum:
Cirsium remotifolium: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122908498
Cirsium undulatum: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122748651

Example of a mutualistic interaction between two parasites (weevil & rust fungus) of Cirsium arvense (creeping/Canada thistle):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226968359_Mutualistic_interaction_between_a_weevil_and_a_rust_fungus_two_parasites_of_the_weed_Cirsium_arvense

Phragmidium violaceum (Rubus Rust):
https://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/pub/php/brief/2005/blackberry/Pviolaceum.pdf
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/invasive-plant-science-and-management/article/invasive-blackberry-species-in-oregon-their-identity-and-susceptibility-to-rust-disease-and-the-implications-for-biological-control/3557705EAAB69DA1E3B121B90953CA2F

Bruchidius villosus (Broom Seed Beetle):
http://bugwoodcloud.org/ibiocontrol/proceedings/pdf/12_516-520.pdf
Off target impacts in New Zealand:
https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10182/492/host-range_expansion.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Exapion fuscirostre (Scotch broom seed weevil):
http://invasives.wsu.edu/biological/exapionfuscirostre.htm

Hylobius transversovittatus:
http://invasives.wsu.edu/biological/hylobiustransversovittatus.htm
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/21251/HOST%20SPECIFICITY%20AND%20ENVIRONMENTAL%20IMPACT%20OF%20THE%20WEEVIL%202.pdf

Mecinus janthinus:
https://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=IICOLQD9R0

Cyphocleonus achates:
http://invasives.wsu.edu/biological/cyphocleonusachates.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA_IaKKkJ8

Agapeta zoegana:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/85212194.pdf
http://invasives.wsu.edu/biological/agapetazoegana.htm

Larinus minutus (lesser knapweed flower weevil):
https://academic.oup.com/ee/article/45/3/658/2962248

Larinus carlinae (Larinus planus):
https://lux.lawrence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1112&context=luhp

Mecinus janthiniformis (dalmatian toadflax stem-boring weevil):
https://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=IICOLQDAA0

Mecinus janthinus (toadflax stem weevil):

Mogulones crucifer (hound's-tongue weevil):
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/agents/mogulones_crucifer.pdf

Cryptostroma corticale (sooty bark disease):
https://dnrtreelink.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/sooty-bark-disease-appears-on-maples-in-seattle/
https://ppo.puyallup.wsu.edu/sbd/

Larinus obtusus (blunt knapweed flower weevil):

Aphyllon purpureum (indigenous parasitic wildflower):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Interaction-%3EParasite%20of=77255

Claviceps on Phragmites:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318402614_Claviceps_arundinis_identification_and_its_role_in_the_die-back_syndrome_of_Phragmites_australis_populations_in_central_Italy

Urophora stylata (bull thistle gall fly):

Platyptilia carduidactylus (artichoke plume moth):

Indigenous thistles impacted:
Cirsium brevistylum:

Tyria jacobaeae (Cinnabar moth):

Botanophila seneciella (ragwort seed head fly):

Longitarsus jacobaeae (ragwort flea beetle):

Aceria genistae (broom gall mite):
http://www.canacoll.org/Arach/Staff/Knee/pdfs/Pratt%20et%20al.%202019.pdf

Agonopterix alstroemeriana (poison hemlock moth):
https://academic.oup.com/ee/article/35/3/607/379045

Aceria chondrillae (rush skeletonweed gall mite and other rush skeleton weed biocontrols):
https://bugwoodcloud.org/resource/files/25241.pdf

Exapion ulicis (gorse seed weevil):

Bangasternus fausti (seed-feeding weevil):

Puccinia lapsanae (nipplewort rust):

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