Example 3. RELEASE REPORT NQ REPT. DATE 01/08/92 



RELEASE FILE NO: PPQNMI-TLB-82-0061 

 ORGANISM RELEASED: 



Microctonus aethiopoides Loan 

 IDENTIEIER(S) : Burger, T L PPQNMI 



CURRENT NAME = SAME 



TAXONOMIC POSITION - CLASS ORDER FAMILY 



Insecta Hymenoptera Braconidae 



TYPE OF ORGANISM: PA STAGE/PART OfHOST/PREY ATTACKED: A 



ORIGIN 

 Europe 



ORIGIN FILE NUMBERS 



LABORATORY CULTURED 



LAB HOST: 



FIELD HOST: Hypera postica 



NON-QUARANTINE ORIGIN 



FIELD COLLECTEBTATE,COUNTY,MM/YY 

 MI Berrien Co 5/82 / 

 BY: Bryan, M D PPQNMI 



GENERATIONS: 



DATES OF MATERIAL TARGET TAXONOMIC POSITION OF 



RELEASE RELEASED HOST (S) /PREY TARGET HOST (S) /PREY 



MM/DD/YY NOS. STAGE GENUS SPECIES AUTHOR CLASS ORDER FAMILY 



5/20/82 588e PHA Hypera Insecta 



98% OF HA postica Coleoptera 



SHIPPED (Gyllenhal) Curculionidae 



HOST PLANT/ANIMALOF TARGET HOST (S) /PREY: alfalfa 



RELEASE LOCATION 

 STATE COUNTY 



lA Clarke 

 RELEASER (S) 



TOWN 



Know Twp (2 sites) 



Stoltenow, C R 



Iowa Department of Agriculture 



Wallace Building 



East Nineth and Grand Streets 



Des Moines lA 50319 USA 



REPRESENTATIVE SPECIMENS - NUMBER: LOCATION: 



NOTES: 073 PHA may also have contained some Microctonus colesi Drea. 



computer file utilities. Additional collection and release details can be ob- 

 tained from biological shipment record forms and other information on file in 

 the ARS Biological Control Documentation Center. 



Many people contributed to the development of ROBO, including many 

 biological control colleagues who responded to a 1982 user survey, which 

 helped complete revision of three biological shipment record forms and the 

 computer programs themselves. The forms were developed and revised with 

 the help of Abby Weiner and with some final revisions by A.L. Siehl, both of 

 Forms Management, General Services Division, Agricultural Research Service 

 (ARS). The current computer programs were written in COBOL for a Wang 

 VS-100 by Mary Goldenbaum, with revisions during the debugging process by 

 Anne Damico and Paul Sobus, all three under contract from Program Re- 

 sources, Inc., and by William Murphy of the former ARS Biosystematics and 

 Beneficial Insects Institute. Rob Selvage, Ed Bird, and Joe Bunon of the 

 former ARS Communications and Data Services Division were involved in 

 system design and early programming. Audrey Carrell and David Vincent, 

 listed as co-compilers of the 1981 repon (Coulson et al. 1988), were heavily 

 involved in the development and later programming of the ROBO data base. 



This publication is modeled after, but is more detailed than, the annual 

 bulletin of releases of biological control organisms in Canada published since 

 the 1930s. The most recent issue reports 1990 releases (Sarazin 1991). Most 

 of the data included in ROBO was provided by many of the research and 

 other scientists and aaion agency personnel listed in section VIII of this 

 publication. Their voluntary cooperation is greatly appreciated. 



Citation of Release Data 



If data are to be cited concerning releases reponed in this publication, the 

 pertinent journal or other reference to each release should be given whenever 

 possible. If this is not possible, or if there is a need to cite release data directly 

 from this publication, the pertinent project leader (or facility or releaser, if the 

 release was made directly from quarantine) should be given as the source of the 

 data. Credit may also be given to the releaser and original collector of the 

 material when they differ from the project leader. Examples follow: 



