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Biological Control of the Glassy-Winged Sharp Shooter

glassy-winged sharpshooter
Research duration
till
Lead institutions
Service du Développement Rural de Polynésie Française
University of California Berkeley

Invasive glassy-winged sharpshooters were successfully controlled via introduction of a species-specific egg parasite wasp in French Polynesia

Project documents

Glassy-Winged Sharp Shooters
Successful spread of a biocontrol agent reveals a biosecurity failure: elucidating long distance invasion pathways for Gonatocerus ashmeadi in French Polynesia
classical biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, by the egg parasitoid Gonatocerus ashmeadi in Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia
Engineering an invasion: classical biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, by the egg parasitoid Gonatocerus ashmeadi in Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia
invasion of the glassy-winged sharpshooter
Invasion of French Polynesia by the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): A New Threat to the South Pacific
glassy-winged sharpshooter
Biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter - Factsheet