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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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Yesterday, I accompanied the West Virginia state forestry entomologist to a colony of Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) to learn how to monitor them for the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB - Agrilus planipennis; Coleoptera: Buprestidae). These wasps are specialists on buprestids, and the idea is to use them as a surveillance tool for the EAB - see Cerceris fumipennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I'll be looking at two colonies; one about 20 miles from here and the other about 12, unfortunately in the opposite direction. As most members probably already know, the EAB is an introduced species that already has killed millions of ash trees in northeastern North America - see Emerald Ash Borer.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Interesting project. Thanks for the links, saves time as I would have had to look them up to understand that, the wood boring beetle predator (wasp) helped locate the ash borer. Right?
I would like to know more about how that is accomplished. |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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Piqued my interest too; after a little Googling I found these two interesting items:
In this one, they've working on a method to use mobile colonies of the wasps: http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/pdf/biosurveillance_cerceris_and_eab_2007.pdf And here's a website devoted to it: Working with Cerceris fumipennis
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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WG's Mr. Tomato Head
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I read it. What exactly is the role this wasp might play in relation to ecology and our economy?
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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Ive attached a photo of one of these wasps at its burrow in Greenbrier State Forest in Greenbrier County, WV.
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ash, borer, emeral, surveillance |
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