Effects of a Biological Control Introduction on Three Nontarget Native Species of Saturniid Moths
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...Biological control of the adelgid using non-native, generalist, predaceous beetles is being explored with uneven regard for the long history of unexpected impacts that can accompany the importation of exotic insects (eg Howarth 1991; Boettner et al. 2000)....
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...Boettner et al. (2000) state that C. concinnata has significantly contributed to the decline of several native saturniid moths....
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...…affect native biodiversity through direct interactions, e.g. a herbivore feeding on a native plant (Jenkins 2003), a predator or a parasitoid attacking a native prey or host (Boettner et al. 2000; Snyder and Evans 2006), an alien species hybridizing with a native species (Jensen et al. 2005), etc....
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...These include the polyphagous tachinid fly Compsilura concinnata (Meigen), which has been implicated in the decline of several endangered saturniid moths (Boettner et al. 2000) (see section on parasitoids below)....
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...Yasuda and Kimura (2001) found that a crab spider, Misumenops trucuspidatus, preyed on C. septempunctata and Propylea japonica, but not on H. axyridis....
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...Boettner et al. (2000) suggested that there is a need to examine the potential adverse impact of H. axyridis on native aphids and the insects that depend on the aphids....
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...concinnatawas released repeatedly until 1986 (11, 19, 104, 130)....
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...maia maia, Eacles imperialis , Anisota stigma ) have been placed on several state endangered species lists (11), and two Citheroniaspp....
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...…an arthropod is released to control another arthropod, we have little information about the negative effects of biological control on native invertebrates (Howarth 1991; Miller & Aplet 1993; Howarth et al. 1995; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment 1993, 1995; Simberloff & Stiling 1996)....
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...Howarth (1991) noted that “The absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence.”...
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...We examined a fourth hypothesis: the introduced generalist parasitoid fly Compsilura concinnata caused the regional declines of saturniids (Culver 1919; Simberloff & Stiling 1996)....
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...…an arthropod is released to control another arthropod, we have little information about the negative effects of biological control on native invertebrates (Howarth 1991; Miller & Aplet 1993; Howarth et al. 1995; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment 1993, 1995; Simberloff & Stiling 1996)....
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