[MAIPC] action alert ;

[Marc Imlay]

Giant Salvinia has been reported in Virginia. If it becomes invasive we do have a weevil biocontrol. https://www.lsuagcenter.com/topics/environment/invasive%20species/giant%20salvinia/biocontrol%20program

Introducing a weevilThe salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, is a tiny black beetle from Brazil that specializes on salvinia species. The weevil has been used successfully to combat giant salvinia infestations since as early as 1980 in Queensland, Australia. The first weevils were brought to the United States 2001.

 

 

Virginia Invasive Plant Species List

EARLY DETECTION SPECIES - not yet widely established in Virginia

Salvinia molesta Giant Salvinia Medium invasiveness Rank•••Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal

https://www.gcvirginia.org/symposium/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/nh-invasive-plant-list-2014.pdf

 

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/topics/environment/invasive%20species/giant%20salvinia/biocontrol%20program

Rockingham County, Virginia, United States 2010

https://www.eddmaps.org/county.cfm?sub=2785 <https://www.eddmaps.org/county.cfm?sub=2785&id=us_VA_51165> &id=us_VA_51165

 

 

From: Diaz, Rodrigo <RDiaz at agcenter.lsu.edu> 
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 1:01 PM
To: Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com>
Cc: Stout, Michael J. <MStout at agcenter.lsu.edu>
Subject: RE: action alert ; 

 

Hi Marc,

 

I appreciate your support for biological control of weeds. Please see this website for more information about the program of giant salvinia in Louisiana:

 

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/giantsalvinia

 

Thanks,

 

Rodrigo

 

Rodrigo Diaz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Entomology

Louisiana State University

402 Life Sciences Bldg.

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Office 225-578-1835

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Dear researchers and research supporters,

We advocate more research for host specific, effective, biological controls of non-native invasive plants in our region. Current ongoing research projects include Chinese Privet, Japanese Stiltgrass, Common Reed, Hydrilla, Oxeye Daisy, Common Tansy, Field Bindweed, Giant Reed, Giant Salvinia, Beefsteak Plant, Small Carpet Grass, Russian Olive, Russian Thistle, Scotch Broom, Water Hyacinth, wavyleaf Basketgrass, Yellow Starthistle, and Fig Buttercup. Federal and State agencies, researchers, and Universities conducting this research are listed in North American Weed Classical Biological Control Research and Development Program Directory and Contacts Version 1, February 13, 2018.  <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugwoodcloud.org%2Fibiocontrol%2Fpublications%2FWeed_Classical_Bio_Ctrl_Directory_Contacts-2-13-28.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Crdiaz%40agcenter.lsu.edu%7C458ee247124f4f90d76308d765ed8b9f%7C804b509899084bdf9c06b3df777563aa%7C0%7C1%7C637089943255219182&sdata=3PpVlIqqaj2xufG1pUDxsZ92d2IIdLD7I%2BkonBOx%2Brs%3D&reserved=0> https://bugwoodcloud.org/ibiocontrol/publications/Weed_Classical_Bio_Ctrl_Directory_Contacts-2-13-28.pdf. as well as Q-Bank, 2013 and https://www.ncagr.gov/PLANTINDUSTRY/Plant/bioctrl/index.htm <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncagr.gov%2FPLANTINDUSTRY%2FPlant%2Fbioctrl%2Findex.htm&data=02%7C01%7Crdiaz%40agcenter.lsu.edu%7C458ee247124f4f90d76308d765ed8b9f%7C804b509899084bdf9c06b3df777563aa%7C0%7C1%7C637089943255229183&sdata=RqnnLm%2F%2BhGR0oGw8Wy13pkfOSnkOtQ5EILCrX%2FeUnaw%3D&reserved=0> . 

Thank you  Alec McClay (McClay Eco-science, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada), Jeffrey Littlefield (Montana State University), Scott Horn (USDA USFS), Michael D. Ulyshen (USDA USFS), Yanzhuo Zhang (University of Georgia) , Nathan Michael Kleczewski, Richard Reardon, USDA USFS FHAAST, S. Luke Flory, University of  Florida, Bernd Blossey (Cornell University), Patrick Häfliger, Rob Bourchier (AAFC, Lethbridge, Canada), Richard A Casagrande, Hariet L. Hinz (CABI Switzerland), David Schisler, James Cuda (UF-IFAS), Matthew Purcell (CSIRO), Sonja Stutz (CABI Switzerland), John Goolsby (USDA ARS), Patrick Moran (USDA ARS), Javid Kashefi (USDA ARS EBCL), Massimo Cristofaro (BBCA), Maricela Martinez Jimenez (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua), Rodrigo Diaz, FUEDEI (Argentina), INIA (Uruguay), Rosemarie De Clerck-Floate, Philip Weyl   and Urs Schaffner (CABI Switzerland) in collaboration with Massimo Cristofaro (BBCA), Sharlene Sing, Paul Pratt Jennifer Andreas, Scott Onetto (University of California Cooperative Extension, Jackson, CA) , Phil Tipping, Guillermo Cabrera Walsh (FUEDEI), Lincoln Smith, and Donna Foster. 

We request that you provide additional support to these researchers to find safe and effective biological controls for these non-native invasive species. This way to save our native ecosystem from non-native invasive species is beyond cut, pull and spray. 

 

Marc Imlay

Resident in Charles County, Maryland 

 

 


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