Biological Control of the Glassy-Winged Sharp Shooter | Gump Station

glassy-winged sharpshooter

Principal Investigators

Jérôme Noël Petit

George Roderick

Research duration

Aug 2004 till Dec 2007

Lead institutions

Service du Développement Rural de Polynésie Française

University of California Berkeley

Invasive glassy-winged sharpshooters were successfully controlled via introduction of a species-specific egg parasite wasp in French Polynesia

Project documents

Engineering an invasion: classical biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, by the egg par537.68 KB
Successful spread of a biocontrol agent reveals a biosecurity failure: elucidating long distance invasion pathways for Gonatocer443 KB
Biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter - Factsheet3.49 MB
Invasion of French Polynesia by the glassy-winged sharpshooter897.52 KB