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Store and Transport Store insects in refrigerator or cooler with ice pack. KEEP FROM FREEZING! Transport in cooler with ice pack separated from insect container by paper/packing material Moths: last 1-3 days Beetles tougher!: last 3-7 days.
Release & Redistribute
-collect some in your net, drive a ways and flip the net out the window.
-dump the insects out of the container and onto the weeds.
Release Site Clip board, forms, GPS unit, camera, flags or stakes
Be with land owner if possible!
Find best spot for insects & land owner…Think a decade out
Take the time to completely fill out form - on site!
Make concise map from known point of origin
GPS and photograph
Keep “T” and “E” data in several spots
Release insects, don’t drive/walk over them
Wish them luck!!! :^)
Release Site Views (8)
Monitoringo Monitor yearly if possible
o Monitor when bioagent is out as adult (or can find in stem/root)
o Find site and sweep net through the area
o Take follow up photos if change in weed density
o Be prepared for bursts of usable insects!
What Monitoring Has Found Aphthona (leafy spurge flea beetle) sites. Oberea (leafy spruge stem/root boring beetle). Larinus minutus (spotted knapweed seed head
weevil).
Contact Land Owners: Each year call every land owner and ask them what
they want us to do: nothing, monitor, redistribute, augment and/or public collection day
Great way to educate about IPM! Land Owners come to expect this service Good PR for County, School and all weed fighters Find useful bursts of insects!
Larinus minutus Found well established 2001 – knapweed seed heads
Not sure how it got there…
Collected 7,640 in summer ’02
Up to 31K in ’04, now do less because well established…
Other Knapweed Bio-Agents• Bangasternus fausti
• Chaetorellia acrolophi
• Larinus obtusis
• Metzneria paucipunctella-------------------------------
• Pelochrista medullana (no photo)
• Pterolonche inspersa-----
• Sphenoptera jugoslavica
• Terellia virens
• Urophora affinis
• Urophora quadrifasciata
Oberea erythrocephala Released 9 pair in cage early 1990’s – spurge root borer
2000 = 250, 2001 = 500, including public net day
2002 = 1,567, + another public net day, ’03 = 3,000, ’04 = 2,700, ‘05 = 2,500, ’06 = 492. ’07 = 1,312
Established all over our area. We collect for requests.
Mapping Number & label sites
GPS coordinate units: long-lat. or UTM’s
Crew can practice doing geocaching
Mapping program: ArcMap, All Topo, etc.
Mesh with county, local agencies and State
One of these may do mapping for you! (student class?)
One person in charge
Keep T/E data in several spots
Make usable to YOU, then others!!
Landowner data is PRIVATE! [bug rustlers…]
Mapping
Mapping
GPS Map & Monitor all Release Sites
Keep T-data and E-data, in 3 places!
Use All Topo Maps and ArcView
Helps plan and prioritize releases
Helps us find useful bursts of insects for collection and net days
Students can use in classes
looks cool!
Bio-Agent Collection (Net) Days Land owners have “ownership”
Great education opportunity
PR Value!
Tours, Workshops, Summer Class
Weekly Summer Newspaper Articles – Use mtwow.org web site
Build Cooperative Relationships.
How to write yourself and your students a great summer job!
Keep It Simple! NWTF, NRCS, Conservation Districts
Cooperate with County Weed District & School
Contact BLM, FS, State, Extension Service, Conservation District, Water Shed Council, local industry, local landowners, 4-H/FFA, and your students.
Conclusion: Bio-agent Collection Insect Storage/Transport Release Site Location Release/Augmentation Monitoring/Mapping Landowner Relations Public Collection Days
Vision: Similar programs in every county involving every
school! We will be glad to help!
How-to info. on mtwow.org web site
Email: [email protected], ph: 498-5236
Summer class and tours any time!
Photos credited on the mtwow.org web site. Many by:
Bob Richard, Rich Hansen – USDA-APHIS-PPQ
Whitehall High School Students
Todd Breitenfeldt &
Many others!!! Thanks :^)