ANNUAL REPORT OF INTRODUCED BENEFICIAL ORGANISMS RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES - 1982 

 SECTION I - INTRODUCED PARASITES AND PREDATORS RELEASED IN U.S. AND TERRITORIES - 1982 

 PART A - Arranged Alphabetically by Genus-species of Released Organism, State, County 

 NOTES 

 015 Greenhouse release. 



022 Released in approved "quarantine" field cage for host specificity tests. No live material removed from containment areas. 



023 For use in host specificity tests of introduced Hexamermis nematodes. 



024 Released in approved "quarantine" field cages to test host-specificity of introduced Hexamermis nematodes. 

 034 Guthion-Sevin resistant strain. 



036 Various number of release sites. 

 041 Field cage release. 



068 Material included stock from cultures at PPQ laboratories at Starkville, MS (PPQSMS) , and Niles, MI (PPQNMI) , and from 

 private contractor at Durango, CO (COMCI) . 



069 Releases made as part of the APHIS-PPQ Cooperative Mexican Bean Beetle Demonstration Project. 



072 Shipments and releases were made of gardenia plants infested with parasitized citrus whiteflies; estimated number of adult 

 parasites per plant averaged between 20 to 35 in 1982. 



078 The shipments and releases of PHA containing Microctonus aethiopoides and of PHL containing Bathyplectes anurus (which 

 see) possibly also included a small undetermined number of M. colesi . 



079 The shipments and releases of PHL containing Bathyplectes anurus (which see) probably also contained an undetermined 

 number of B. curculionis . 



083 Released partially as Bracon sp. nr. gelechiae . 



087 Released as parasitized hosts on infested gardenia plants. 



094 Each beetle released was estimated to be infested with 30 mites (adults, larvae, and eggs) . 



096 Surviving adults from BIRL-82-130 and -141 (latter only males) released in a field sleeve cage on an apple tree. 



103 LRGV = Lower Rio Grande Valley (4 county area) . Information for July initiation of shipments and releases is from H W 

 Browning et al., 1985 (Tex.Agr.Expt .Sta.Progr .Rpt . 4344:6) and J W Smith et al., 1987 (Entomophaga 32:480). Contact authors 

 or project leader (J W Smith, TAMU) for details; data in ROBO database for TAMU records are incomplete. 



104 LRVG = Lower Rio Grande Valley (4 coiinty area) . Release information is from H W Browning and C W Melton, 1984 (Tex.Agr. 

 Expt .Sta.Progr .Rpt . 4196:8). Contact authors, project leader, or releasers for details; data in ROBO database for TAMU 

 records are incomplete. 



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