Initial impacts and field validation of host range for Boreioglycaspis melaleucae moore (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), a biological control agent of the invasive tree Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) blake (Myrtales: Myrtaceae: Leptospermoideae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-576

  Center, Ted D ^a   Pratt, Paul D ^a   Tipping, Philip W ^a   Rayamajhi, Min B ^a   Van, Thai K ^a   Wineriter, Susan A ^a   Dray Jr , F Allen ^a  

^a INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical biological control; Florida everglades; Nontarget effects; Plant damage; Weed biological control

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVERGREEN TREE; FIELD METHOD; HOST RANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; POPULATION DECLINE; SURVIVAL; WEED CONTROL; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HEMIPTERA; MELALEUCA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEEDLING; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FLORIDA; HEMIPTERA; MELALEUCA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDLING;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BOREIOGLYCASPIS MELALEUCAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; MYRTACEAE; MYRTALES; OXYOPS VITIOSA; PSYLLIDAE;

EID: 34250713490     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[569:IIAFVO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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