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Environ Entomol

Title:		Expansion of the Mexican Rice Borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) into Rice and Sugarcane in Louisiana
Author(s):		Wilson BE; Hardy TN; Beuzelin JM; VanWeelden MT; Reagan TE; Miller R; Meaux J; Stout MJ; Carlton CE;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 404 Life Science Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803. bwilson@agcenter.lsu.edu. Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, 5825 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806. Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 404 Life Science Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Calcasieu Parish Extension Office, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 7101 Gulf Hwy, Lake Charles, LA 70607"
Journal Title:		Environ Entomol
Year:		2015
Volume:		20150321
Issue:		3
Page Number:		757 - 766
DOI:		10.1093/ee/nvv016
ISSN/ISBN:		1938-2936 (Electronic) 0046-225X (Linking)
Abstract:		"The Mexican rice borer, Eoreuma loftini (Dyar) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is an invasive pest of sugarcane, Saccharum spp., rice, Oryza sativa L., and other graminaceous crops in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Traps baited with E. loftini female sex pheromones were used to document establishment and distribution of E. loftini near sugarcane, rice, and noncrop hosts in seven southwest Louisiana parishes from 2009 to 2013. Additional field surveys documented larval infestations in commercial sugarcane and rice. After its initial detection in 2008, no E. loftini were detected in Louisiana in 2009 and only two adults were captured in 2010. Trapping documented range expansion into Cameron, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis parishes in 2011 and Allen, Acadia, and Vermilion parishes in 2013. During the course of this study, E. loftini expanded its range eastward into Louisiana 120 km from the Texas border ( approximately 22 km/yr). Surveys of larval infestations provided the first record of E. loftini attacking rice and sugarcane in Louisiana. Infestations of E. loftini in rice planted without insecticidal seed treatments in Calcasieu Parish reached damaging levels"
Keywords:		*Animal Distribution Animals Insect Control Introduced Species Louisiana Male Moths/drug effects/*physiology *Oryza/growth & development Pheromones/pharmacology *Saccharum/growth & development Sex Attractants/pharmacology Eoreuma loftini invasive species;
Notes:		"MedlineWilson, B E Hardy, T N Beuzelin, J M VanWeelden, M T Reagan, T E Miller, R Meaux, J Stout, M J Carlton, C E eng Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2015/08/28 Environ Entomol. 2015 Jun; 44(3):757-66. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvv016. Epub 2015 Mar 21"