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Improving Mass-Rearing Techniques for Releases of Floracarus perrepae, a Biological Control Agent for Old World Climbing Fern (Lygodium microphyllum)

Jessene Aquino-Thomas,
Logan Crees,
Michelle Miles,
Melissa C. Smith,
Ellen C. Lake and
F. Allen Dray Jr.

Insects2025, 16(2), 135;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16020135

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31 January 2025

The United States Department of Agriculture—Invasive Plant Research Laboratory started limited production of a biological control mite, Floracarus perrepae, in 2008 for release against the invasive fern Lygodium microphyllum. Mass-rearing and r...

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Interactions between Two Biological Control Agents on Lygodium microphyllum

Ian Jones and
Ellen C. Lake

Insects2018, 9(4), 180;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9040180

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2 December 2018

Lygodium microphyllum (Lygodiaceae) is an invasive climbing fern in peninsular Florida. Two classical biological control agents are currently being released against L. microphyllum: a leaf galling mite, Floracarus perrepae (Acariformes: Eriophyidae),...

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