Exciting developments in efforts to test a new potential biocontrol agent for Gonipterus sp. n. 2

In September this year FABI imported a potential new biological control agent of the Eucalyptus snout beetle, Gonipterus sp. n. 2, currently the most serious insect pest of eucalypts in the country. The potential biocontrol agent is a tachinid fly, Anagonia cf. lasiophthalma, which parasitizes the larval stage of the beetle. The flies were imported from RAIZ […]