Weed Targets

TARGET: Acaena anserinifolia (Forster & G. Forster) J.Armstrong [piripiri]

AGENTS

• Ucona acaenae Smith (Hymenoptera: Symphyta): no loc, no date.

TARGET: Ageratina (=Eupatorium) adenophora (Sprengel) R.King & H.Robinson [Mexican devil weed]

AGENTS

• Procecidochares utilis Stone (Diptera: Tephritidae): Brisbane, 1958.

TARGET: Ageratina riparia (Regel) R.King & H.Robinson [mistflower]

AGENTS

• Procecidochares alani Steyskal (Diptera: Tephritidae): Hawaii, 1998 1999 2000.

TARGET: Alternanthera philoxeroides (C.Martius) Grisebach [alligator weed]

AGENTS

• Agasicles hygrophila Selman & Vogt (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Australia, 1981.

• Disonycha argentinensis Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Australia, 1981.

• Vogtia malloi Pastrana (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): Australia, 1987.

TARGET: Buddleja davidii Franchet [butterfly bush]

AGENTS

• Cleopus japonicus Wingelműller (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): no loc, 1998.

• Mecysolobus erro Pascoe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): no loc, 1999.

TARGET: Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull [heather]

AGENTS

• Lochmaea suturalis (Thomson)  (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): U.K., 1993 1994 2000.

TARGET: Carduus nutans L. [nodding thistle]

AGENTS

• Rhinocyllus conicus (Froelich) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Canada, 1972; Wyoming USA, 1997.

• Trichosirocalus horridus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Canada 1982-83;

• unidentified beetle (Coleoptera ): Austria, 1991.

TARGET: Cirsium arvense (L.) Scopoli [Californian thistle]

AGENTS

• Altica carduorum Guerin-Meneville (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Switzerland, 1990.

• Altica cirsicola Lee (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): China (reared in Canada), 1992.

• Ceutorhynchus litura (F.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Swiss Jura, 1976.

• Lema cyanella (L.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Canada, 1983.

• Urophora cardui (L) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Canada ,1975; Oregon USA, 2000.

• Urophora solstitialis (L.) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Austria, 1989.

TARGET: Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Tenore [Scotch thistle]

AGENTS

• Urophora stylata (Fab.) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Australia 1997, 1999; Oregon USA, 1999.

TARGET: Clematis vitalba L. [old man's beard]

AGENTS

• Monophadnus spinolae Klug (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae): Austria, 1997; Switzerland, 1998 1999.
• Phytomyza vitalbae Kaltenbach  (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Switzerland, 1996.

TARGET: Cytisus scoparius (L) Link [Scotch broom]

AGENTS

• Apion fuscirostre Fabricius (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): UK, 1985.

• Apion immune Kirby (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): UK, 1985.

• Arytainilla spartiophilia (Förster)  (Hemiptera: Psyllidae): UK, 1991 1992 1994.

• Bruchidius ater  (Marsh.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): England, 1985 1986.  

• Bruchidius villosus (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): England, 2002.

• Gonioctena olivacea (Forster) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): England, 1997.

• Sitona regensteinensis (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): UK 1989.

TARGET: Hieracium spp. [hawkweeds]

AGENTS

• Cheilosia urbana (Meigen, 1822) (=praecox) (Diptera: Syrphidae): Switzerland, 1999.

• Cheilosia psilophthalma (Becker, 1894) (Diptera: Syrphidae): Switzerland, 1998.

TARGET: Hieracium pilosella L. [hawkweed]

AGENTS

• Aulacidea subterminalis Niblett [hieracium gall wasp] (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae): Germany, 1997 1998; Switzerland, 1999.

• Macrolabis pilosellae (Binnie) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): Switzerland, 1999.

• Oxyptilus pilosellae Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae): Germany, 1997, 2001 (plus hymenopteran parasitoid).

TARGET: Hypericum perforatum L. [St John's wort]

AGENTS

• Chrysolina (=Chrysomela auct.) hyperici Forster (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Australia, 1944.

• Chrysolina quadrigemina (Suffrian) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Australia, 1965 1967.

• torymid ?hyperparasite of Zeuxidiplosis giardi Kieffer (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): Australia, 1960.

TARGET: Senecio jacobaea L. [ragwort]

AGENTS

• Longitarsus jacobaeae (Waterhouse) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Oregon USA, 1981.

• Longitarsus sp. (=flavicornis (Stephens)) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Australia 1985; France, 1985.

• Pegohylemyia jacobaeae (Hardy) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae): England, no date.

• Pegohylemyia seneciella (Meade) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae): England, no date.

TARGET: Ulex europaeus L. [gorse]

AGENTS

• Agonopterix ulicetella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae): Hawaii, 1996 2001.

• Cydia internana Guenee (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): U.K., 1989.

• Cydia succedana D&S (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): no loc, 1990.

• Dictyonota strichnocera Fieber (Heteroptera:Tingidae): England, 1982.

• Oncocera (=Pempelia) genistella  (Duponchel, 1836) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): Spain, 1996.

• Tetranychus lintearius Dufour (Acari: Tetranychidae): Spain, 1991; Portugal, 1991.