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Fungus to enter
INTEGRITY
moth war
WASHINGTON, D.C.
- A fungus that
destroys gypsy moths in
Japan may be field
tested against the pests’
tree-damaging Ameri
can cousins next spring,
a U.S. Department of
Agriculture scientist
reports.
“The fungus is a
potent parasitic killer of
gypsy moths in its
Honshu Island
homeland,” said
Richard S. Soper Jr., an
insect pathologist for
USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service and
leader of the fungus
research team.
The fungus - En
tomophaga aulicae - is
known to attack only
gypsy moth larvae,
Soper said. But before
USDA uses it to fight
these destructive pests,
he said, thorough
laboratory and field
experiments must be
conducted to ensure it
will not harm beneficial
insects.
“Early 20th century
Japanese scientists first
reported on the fungus
and how it controls
gypsy moths, but it was
impossible to isolate
living specimens and
maintain them,” he
said. “For example, a
New England en
tomologist collected
specimens in 1908, but
was unable to propagate
them.”
Soper said today’s
biochemical technology
enables scientists to
keep strains of the
fungus alive while they
are shipped to this
country for research.
In Japan last spring,
Soper searched for dead
gypsy moths and
isolated from them four
living strains of the
fungus. The strains are
now thriving in his
laboratory at the Boyce
Thompson Institute at
Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y.
Soper injected spores
from his collected
specimens into native
gypsy moths and got a
kill rate of over 90
percent under
laboratory conditions. A
USDA rearing facility
on Otis, Mass., supplied