BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF INVASIVE PALE AND BLACK SWALLOW-WORTS IN NYS-FIELD EVALUATION OF HYPENA OPULENTA

• Sponsoring Institution: Other Cooperating Institutions
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: STATE
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 1026956
• Project Start Date: Jun 17, 2021
• Project End Date: Dec 31, 2023
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK
(N/A)
SYRACUSE,NY 13210

Performing Department
Environmental Biology

Non Technical Summary
The overaching goal for this project is to release H. opulenta, a specialist defoliating moth and the only approved biologial control agent for swallow-wort in North America and asssess its impact on populations of swallow-wort. Given the 4-year time line of this research project (C-18-01) and the current stage of other potential agents in the testing and approval process (see biological control section, the Principal Investigator (PI) shall focus exclusively on this species, approved for release in fall 2017 by the U.S. federal government and New York State. Additionally, the advancement and testing ot this biological control agent has been ranked as a research priority by the Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM's) from region of NY where BSW and PSW are problematic.Awarded Start Date: 11/1/2018Sponsor: Research Foundation of City University of New York

Animal Health Component

100%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

(N/A)

Applied

100%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
215	0613	1070	100%

Knowledge Area
215 - Biological Control of Pests Affecting Plants;

Subject Of Investigation
0613 - Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests;

Field Of Science
1070 - Ecology;

Keywords

hypena opulenta

biological control agents

swallow-wort

invasive species

Goals / Objectives
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Project Methods
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