Eadya parasitoid of Eucalyptus leaf beetles
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- Watch out paropsis, Eadya is coming for you
In 2019, Scion gained Environmental Protection Agency approval in principle to release the new biological control agent Eadya daenerys to control the invasive eucalyptus tortoise beetle paropsis. Eadya daenerys is…
- Introducing Eadya daenerys -Mother of Dragons” - a new biocontrol agent in NZ’s fight against the invasive eucalyptus tortoise beetle
In this You-tube clip University of Tasmania entomology associate professor Dr Geoff Allen and Scion entomologist Roanne Sutherland, discuss a joint biological control initiative between Scion New Zealand and the…
- Good news for eucalypt growers - The approved release of Paropsis charybdis bio-control agent
Toni Withers and Michelle Harnett, New Zealand Tree Grower May 2019. The approval to release the parasitoid wasp Eadya daenerys to control eucalyptus tortoise beetle Paropsis charybdis by New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority…
- Introducing Eadya daenerys “mother of dragons”
From Forest Health News 282, July 2018. The possibility of cryptic Eadya species (multiple species that look identical) spurred a collaborative project between biocontrol scientists at Scion, the University of Tasmania…
- Update on Paropsis biocontrol December 2016
December, 2016. The parasitoid wasp Eadya paropsidis remains a strong candidate for safe release as a biological control agent for Eucalyptus tortoise beetle in New Zealand. Eadya paropsidis has been…
- Update on SFF Paropsis biocontrol project May 2016
May, 2016. The Tasmanian parasitoid wasp, Eadya paropsidis, is being investigated as a potential biological control agent for Paropsis charybdis, the Eucalyptus tortoise beetle. The first year of the three…
- New Work on Biological Control for Eucalyptus Tortoise Beetle
January, 2015. LATEST NEWS: Promising Biological Control agent imported into Containment On December 12th 2014, NZFFA representative on the SFF project team Dean Satchell brought back from Tasmania an exciting…
- NZFFA eucalypt tortoise beetle biocontrol progress
July, 2014. A parasitoid wasp of the spring-time larval stage of the eucalyptus leaf beetle Paropsisterna agricola in Tasmania has had its identity confirmed and is the most exciting potential…
- Results of the first year of a Sustainable Farming Fund study to locate a spring-active parasitoid in Tasmania
for potential biological control of Paropsis charybdis August, 2013. Despite considerable efforts, the eucalyptus tortoise beetle Paropsis charybdis continues to defoliate Eucalyptus nitens plantations throughout New Zealand. This pest both…
- Dean Satchell heads to Tasmania to assist with mass-rearing Eadya paropsidis, the potential biological control agent of Paropsis charybdis
December, 2013. Despite considerable efforts, the eucalyptus tortoise beetle Paropsis charybdis (paropsis) continues to defoliate Eucalyptus nitens plantations throughout New Zealand. The pest both prevents expansion of this forest resource…
- Hunt for the wilderbeetles
From Forest Health News 280, March 2018. Scion entomologists and ecologists spent three weeks in Kahurangi National Park this last summer with a DOC permit to search for a group…
- Pre application consultation has begun for a new potential biological control introduction to control Eucalyptus tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis
April, 2018. Background The Farm Forestry Association, and Scion have been collaborating for the last 5 years on a project to get a new biological control agent into New Zealand…
- Tasmanian Parasitoid of Tortoise Beetle Holds Promise
From Forest Health News 272, April 2017. Scion entomologists and summer students have been working hard on the Paropsis biocontrol project this summer. The aim of this project, last featured in…
- Tasmanian parasitoid keeps entomologists busy in Rotorua containment facility
From Forest Health News 263, December 2015 - January 2016. The first ever observed mating pair of the parasitoid Eadya paropsidis. Females are haplo-diploid and need to be mated to produce…
- Great news for tortoise beetle biocontrol - Sustainable Farming Fund application successful!
From Forest Health News 258, July 2015. In the February issue we introduced readers to Eadya paropsidis, the exciting Tasmanian parasitoid that attacks larvae of the tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis.…
- New potential biological control agent arrives in containment
From Forest Health News 253, January/February 2015. Eadya paropsidis female stalks its prey and delivers one egg into the Paropsis larva’s body. Photo: S. Kirk, Scion. In December, Forest Protection…
- Scion granted permission to import a new parasitoid for testing
From Forest Health News 250 , September 2014. For the last two years entomologist Toni Withers has been working on a collaborative Sustainable Farm Fund project led by the Farm…
- Biological control of Paropsis charybdis
From Forest Health News No. 232, January 2013. Eadya attacking paropsine larva Toni Withers, with technical assistance from Hannah Fluitsma (Southwood Export) and Dean Satchell (Farm Forestry Association), were in Tasmania…
- Biological control of Paropsis charybdis
From Forest Health News 227, July 2012. Paropsine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are extremely diverse and abundant in their native Australian range but have emerged as significant defoliators only since the…
- New work on biological control for Eucalyptus tortoise beetle
Investigating the potential of Eadya paropsidis (Braconidae) from Tasmania as a biocontrol agent for Paropsis charybdis in New Zealand : May 2012. Wasp parasitising chrysomelid larva. Photo Anthony Rice Eadya grooming Eadya approaching Paropsis…
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