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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21,2001, Foraging Around*3l
Lab Plays Key
Role In U.S. Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Parasitic wasps, flies, fungi,
and bacteria abound at the
Agricultural Research Ser
vice’s (ARS’s) European Bio
logical Control Laboratory
(EBCL) in Montpellier,
France.
There, ARS and collabo
rating scientists are subject
ing these organisms to a
battery of tests aimed at pit
ting them against non-native
insects and weeds that en
danger U.S. agriculture.
Montpellier, on France’s
Mediterranean coast, is a
strategic locale. From this
seaside city, EBCL scientists
can hop flights to the pests’
points of origin in North
Africa, the Middle East, Bal
kans and Asia, where natural
enemies can be found. Typi
cally, they’ll explore sites
where the crops, climate or
habitat matches a particular
U.S. region where a pest has
become established and a
biocontrol agent is needed.
Entomologists Kim
Hoelmer and Dominique
Coutinot, for example, are
now rearing Hymenopterous
wasps, collected last fall from
Tunisia, that parasitize olive
fruit flies. In California, the
It’s Hay Time
and We Have The Hay Tools For You At
Umberger’s of Fontana
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— j=, ROTARY RAKE
W« Put A Spin On Farming
Editor’s Note: Mary Schrader can
be contacted at NRCS, PO Box 186,
Benkelman, NE 69021, (308) 423-
2402, ext. 3, or at
mary.schrader@ne.usda.gov.
fly’s establishment threatens
the state’s $33.9 million olive
industry.
Charles Pickett, a Califor
nia Department of Food and
Agriculture cooperator, is
seeking fruit fly parasites
that could be released into
olive groves as part of an in
tegrated approach to control
ling the pest.
Tim Widmer, meanwhile,
is testing the host specificity,
virulence and other features
of dozens of fungi and bac
teria cultured from salt
cedar, yellow starthistle,
giant reed and other Eura
sian weeds. While collecting
diseased reed specimens in
Nepal’s wetland areas in Sep
tember, the plant pathologist
picked up and had to pick
off another inhabitant:
leeches.
Some other pests on the
EBCL “hit-list” include dia
mondback moths, gypsy
moths, pink hibiscus mealy
bug, Asian long-horned bee
tles, wheat stem sawflies,
apple leafrollers, knapweed,
hoary cress, and rush skele
ton weed.