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Gumleaf skeletoniser biological control
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From Forest Health News 214, March/April 2011.
A biological control agent for Uraba lugens (gumleaf skeletoniser), Cotesia urabae was released by Scion in the Auckland Domain in January 2011 (see FH News 212, January 2011).
Since the first release, another two releases of this parasitoid wasp have been made at the same site by University of Auckland graduate student Gonzalo Avila-Olesen.
Several cocoons of the wasp were found in the field one month after the first release. A close eye will be kept on the release site for cocoons in spring-summer. Finding them would indicate the wasp has survived winter.
Michelle Watson
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