Failure of the introduction ofActinote anteas (Lep.: Acraeidae) from Costa Rica as a biological control candidate forChromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in South Africa |
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| Authors: | P M Caldwell R L Kluge |
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| Institution: | (1) Cedara Weeds Laboratory, Plant Protection Research Institute, Private Bag X9059, 3200 Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa |
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| Abstract: | Actinote anteas from Costa Rica was screened as a biological control candidate forChromolaena odorata in South Africa. Preliminary starvation trials suggest thatA. anteas is species specific. There are seven larval instars and the life cycle is completed in 101–169 days. The culture died out
after three generations possibly because of incompatibility with the form of the local species ofC. odorata or disease. |
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| Keywords: | biological weed control Actinote anteas Chromolaena odorata host specificity |
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