Insect surveillance and eradication

biosecurity built on science

Insect Surveillance and Eradication

Professor Max Suckling FRSNZScience Group Leader, Biosecurity,

Plant and Food Research & School of Biological Sciences,

University of Auckland

Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre

1. Brought SPLAT to Australia

Including surveillance of horticultural pests

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2. Brought CMB pheromone









3. Brought rigour to mass trapping









4. Capacity building









5. Peer reviewed articles as a body of work from the PBCRC




What is the problem?

Arthropod eradications are going up globally, pest fauna risingDetection and response to invasive species is difficultRare and initially hidden on landscapeLack of tools for early detectionLack of tools for eradication (especially urban scenario)Lack of theoretical framework for integrating tacticsFailure leads to ongoing costs (e.g. TPP $25M/y, 90% drop # growers)

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What have we done about it?

New theoretical framework for mass trapping Development of commercially useful formulations in pest

management to ensure access to generic formulations Workshop on Registration of Semiochemicals in Australia New lures and trapping systems for mealybugs in citrus

and other insects at low pest density New socially acceptable eradication tools for key pestsFailures:

XX Ruled out feasibility of lure and kill for BMSBXX New Medfly lures were not any better, so farXX APVMA legislation (EU guidance ?)


How was this research delivered?Industry contacts since workshop with APVMA regulators etc.New tools for citrus industry – citrophilous mealybug pheromone traps 20 published records for researchers in peer reviewed journals up to Impact Factor 13 (Annual Review of Entomology) (CRC+B3)Extension material explaining a published frameworkScience delivery - Sometimes we used syringes !Travel and mentoring for younger researchers, Soopaya et al. x 2

Data for commercial registration of SPLAT


Who will benefit from this research?

Citrus industry – mealybug phenology and density using sex pheromone traps for the first time in IPM

All horticultural sectors affected by LBAM (citrus, apples, grapes)

International communities dealing with urban situations International communities interested in eradication International scientists with new attractants where mass

trapping is claimed as a future option (overly optimistic?) Societies wanting pesticide risk reduction Regulators encouraging green alternatives to pesticides.


Benefit for our horticultural industriesShort term New technologies for pest surveillance & suppression New knowledge of tactical interactions New knowledge of urban response options and

limitations New experience and capacity on semiochemicals New networks of NZers and Aussies, many involved

Long term Reduced reliance on broadcast insecticides Increased interest in mass trapping and alternatives


End-User Advocate’s Perspective

EUA 1 (Gary Leeson of OCR, Aust licensee for SPLATTM). “Keen to get some feedback on the trial in New Caledonia when you have something. I can put this to the APVMA to argue the case for a Commercial trial permit here for 2016-17 season.”

EUA 2 (Rory McLellan, NZ MPI)This is very interesting work, it seems like it is a fairly quick and effective way of determining the optimal spacing not only for mass trapping for eradication but would also be very applicable to lures used in delimiting surveys during a biosecurity response to an exotic plant pest insect with a known effective lure such as Queensland fruit fly. I also see value in expanding this work to determine the optimum spacing of traps for surveillance monitoring purposes to give more creditability to the efficacy of a detection surveillance program in a pest free area.

EUA 3 (Dr Gary Judd, AAFC, Summerland, BC)just wanted to say I just read your recent mass trapping paper and thought it was quite useful. Hope to apply some of its principles to mass trapping work I’m doing on a clearwing moth …...

Tools based on pheromones1. PLoS ONE 7: e43767.2. Crop Protection 42: 327-333.3. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3(17): 1-7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00017.4. Acta Horticulturae 1105: 275-281. doi:10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1105.39.5. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 1694-1701. doi:10.1603/ec12130.6. Pest Management Science 67: 1004-1014. doi:10.1002/ps.2150.7. Journal of Economic Entomology DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov142.

Eradication8. Annual Review of Entomology 61. doi:doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023809.9. Pest Management Science: n/a-n/a. doi:10.1002/ps.3905.10. Pest Management Science 70: 179-189. doi:Doi 10.1002/Ps.3670.11. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 1-13. doi:10.1603/ec11293.

Sterile Insect Technique for moths12. Florida Entomologist inpress.13. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 54-61. doi:DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC11135.14. Journal of Economic Entomology 104: 1462-1475.15. Journal of Economic Entomology 104: 1999-2008. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC11049.16. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 148: 203-212. doi:Doi 10.1111/Eea.12096. 17. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 269-275. doi:DOI 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00815.x.

Surveillance18. Biological Invasions 16: 1851-1864. doi:DOI 10.1007/s10530-013-0631-8.

Mass trapping19. Pest Management Science 71: 1452-1461. doi:10.1002/ps.3950.

Accessible body of work from CRC & B3 projects (+1)

Accessible body of work from CRC & B3 projects (+1)

Tools based on pheromones1. PLoS ONE 7: e43767.2. Crop Protection 42: 327-333.3. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3(17): 1-7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00017.4. Acta Horticulturae 1105: 275-281. doi:10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1105.39.5. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 1694-1701. doi:10.1603/ec12130.6. Pest Management Science 67: 1004-1014. doi:10.1002/ps.2150.7. Journal of Economic Entomology DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov142.

Eradication8. Annual Review of Entomology 61. doi:doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023809.9. Pest Management Science: n/a-n/a. doi:10.1002/ps.3905.10. Pest Management Science 70: 179-189. doi:Doi 10.1002/Ps.3670.11. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 1-13. doi:10.1603/ec11293.

Sterile Insect Technique for moths12. Florida Entomologist in press.13. Journal of Economic Entomology 105: 54-61. doi:DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC11135.14. Journal of Economic Entomology 104: 1462-1475.15. Journal of Economic Entomology 104: 1999-2008. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC11049.16. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 148: 203-212. doi:Doi 10.1111/Eea.12096. 17. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 269-275. doi:DOI 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00815.x.

Surveillance18. Biological Invasions 16: 1851-1864. doi:DOI 10.1007/s10530-013-0631-8.

Mass trapping19. Pest Management Science 71: 1452-1461. doi:10.1002/ps.3950.

Optimum spacing per species/crop

Corner to middle ratio changes with grid spacing



Future

ChallengesAustralian legislation onerous so semiochemicals are delivering below potential Operating responses in urban environmentsImpact of globalisation on pest burdens for industry

Future research SIT for stink bugs – testing for inherited sterilityNew attractants and surveillance methods, electronicsNew control and eradication tools and tactics


It’s been fun, thank you Aussies !

“My heroes will always be Hawaiians”- Bill Woods (DAFWA) and Perth team- Greg Baker and Adelaide team (SARDI)- Lloyd Stringer and PFR Biosecurity Group

PBCRC is established and supported under the Australian Government Cooperative Research Centres Programme

SPLAT Sharp Shooters at Penfolds (front row only compliant)