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1 February 2012 Light Brown Apple Moth in California: A Diversity of Host Plants and Indigenous Parasitoids
Xin-Geng Wang, Karmit Levy, Nicholas J. Mills, Kent M. Daane
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The light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker), an Australia native tortricid, was found in California in 2006. A field survey of host plants used by E. postvittana was conducted in an urban region of the San Francisco Bay Area. An inspection of 152 plant species (66 families), within a 23-ha residential community, found E. postvittana on 75 species (36 families). Most (69 species) host plants were not Australian natives, but had a wide geographic origin; 34 species were new host records for E. postvittana. Heavily infested species were the ornamental shrubs Myrtus communis L., Pittosporum tobira (Thunb.) W.T. Aiton, Euonymus japonicus Thunb., and Sollya heterophylla Lindl. To survey for parasitoids, four urban locations were sampled, with E. postvittana collected from five commonly infested plants [M. communis, P. tobira, E. japonicus, Rosmarinus officinalis L., and Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S. Johnson]. Twelve primary parasitoid species and two hyperparasitoids were reared; the most common were the egg parasitoid Trichogramma fasciatum (Perkins), the larval parasitoids Meteorus ictericus Nees, and Enytus eureka (Ashmead), and the pupal parasitoid Pediobius ni Peck. Meteorus ictericus accounted for >80% of the larval parasitoids, and was recovered from larvae collected on 39 plant species. Across all samples, mean parasitism was 84.4% for eggs, 43.6% for larvae, and 57.5% for pupae. The results are discussed with respect to the potential for resident parasitoid species to suppress E. postvittana populations.

© 2012 Entomological Society of America
Xin-Geng Wang, Karmit Levy, Nicholas J. Mills, and Kent M. Daane "Light Brown Apple Moth in California: A Diversity of Host Plants and Indigenous Parasitoids," Environmental Entomology 41(1), 81-90, (1 February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1603/EN11160
Received: 27 June 2011; Accepted: 1 November 2011; Published: 1 February 2012
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KEYWORDS
biological control
host plant use
invasive species
Lepidoptera
Totricidae
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