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Article: Biological control of Adelges tsugae (HWA) with Sasajiscymnus tsugae (Ladybird Beetle).(SOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ABSTRACTS)(Brief article)
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- Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The primary threat to the health and sustainability of the eastern hemlock forest is the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA). A biological control agent, Sasajiscymnus tsugae, has been mass reared to help control HWA. Two release sites of S. tsugae were monitored south of Highlands, North Carolina to determine if S. tsugae could survive, reproduce, and spread into the southern ...
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... ... indigenous species introduced for biological control purposes. Howarth (1983, 1985 ... attracted vigorous rebuttals from biological-control practitioners who argue that the ... that there is no inherent reason why biological control is risky, and that existing protocols ...
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