Bridal creeper (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) in Australia and developments towards its biological control [review]. [Conference paper]
1991
Scott, J.K. (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Wembley (Australia). Div. of Entomology) | Kleinjan, C.A. (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Cape Town (South Africa). Biological Control Unit)
Bridal creeper, regarded as a threat to nature conservation values, is widespread in south-west Western Australia and is also present in nature conservation areas in South Australia and Victoria. Preliminary results are given of a survey of fauna and diseases attacking bridal creeper in its native habitat, southern Africa. Potential biological control agents include eurytomid seed wasps; larvae of fruit-feeding Lepidoptera; a rust fungus, Puccinia myrsiphylli; a Crioceris species which eats new shoots and young leaves; a leaf-feeding cicadellid and an unidentified fly which gall shoot tips.
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