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- Title
NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN AZOLLA WEEVIL, STENOPELMUS RUFINASUS (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE), USES THE INVASIVE OLD WORLD AZOLLA PINNATA AS A HOST PLANT.
- Authors
Pemberton, R. W.; Bodle, J. M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relevance of Azolla pinnata which is used by Native North American Azolla as a host plant. It is stated that Azolla pinnata, which is an Old World mosquito fern, was naturalized in waterways of southern Florida, and in New Zealand where it displaced the native Azolla. North America's herbivores such as flea beetle or Pseudolampsis guttata and native weevil or Stenopelmus rufinasus used Azolla pinnata as a host plant. It is observed that this situation in which a weed has invaded the native area of a successful biological control agent of a congeneric weed in another region is unique.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; NORTH America; AZOLLA pinnata; AGRICULTURAL pests; AZOLLA; FLEA beetles; WEEDS; FALSE spider mites; HERBIVORES
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2009, Vol 92, Issue 1, p153
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.092.0124