issg Database: Management and Information Links for Cactoblastis cactorum

Cactoblastis cactorum (insect)

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For details on preventative measures, chemical, physical, and biological control options of Cactoblastis cactorum, please see management information compiled by ISSG.

         Management Resources/Links

1. Bloem, S., Hight, S., Carpenter, J and Bloem, K., 2005. Development of the Most Effective Trap to Monitor the Geographical Expansion of the Cactus Moth Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Submitted to: Florida Entomologist)
        Summary: Interpretative summary and technical abstract available from: http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=173010 [Accessed 17 May 2005]
2. Dodd, A. P. 1940. The biological campaign against prickly pear. Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board, Brisbane, Australia.
3. Florida Entomologist December 2001 (vol. 84, no. 4, pages 465-751)
        Summary: Issue devoted to Cactoblastis cactorum.
Available from: http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe844.htm
Online issues of Florida Entomologist from 1994 to current issues available from: http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/feissues.htm. All articles are freely accessible in PDF format. [Accessed 17 May 2005]
4. Hight, S. D., J. E. Carpenter, K. A. Bloem, S. Bloem, R. W. Pemberton, and P. Stiling. 2002. Expanding Geographic Range of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) In North America. Florida Entomologist 85(3): 527-529.
5. Hight, S., Carpenter, J., Bloem, S and Bloem, K., 2005. Developing a Sterile Insect Release Program for Cactoblastis cactorum (BERG.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): Effective Overflooding Rations and Release-Recapture Field Studies (Submitted to: Environmental Entomology)
        Summary: Interpretative summary and technical abstract available from: http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=170145 [Accessed 17 May 2005]
6. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)., 2002. Mitigating the Threat of Cactoblastis cactorum to International Agriculture and Ecological Systems and Biodiversity: Report and Recommendations of a Consultants’ Group Meeting organized by the Technical Co-operation Department of the IAEA and the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Applications in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria, July 2002.
        Summary: Available from: http://tc.iaea.org/tcweb/abouttc/strategy/thematic/pdf/reports/Thematic_plan_cactus.pdf [Accessed 20 May 2006]
7. Leibee, G. L., and L. S. Osborne. 2001. Chemical control of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Florida Entomologist 84(4): 510-513.
8. Mahr, D. L. 2001. Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Noth America. A Workshop of Assessment and Planning. Florida Entomologist 84(4): 465-474.
9. Pemberton, R. W., and H. A. Cordo. 2001. Potential and risks of biological control of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) In North America. Florida Entomologist 84(4).
10. Pettey, F. W. 1948. The biological control of prickly pear in South Africa. Sci. Bull. Dept of Agri. Union of South Africa 271: 1-163.
11. Robertson, H. G. 1988. Spatial and temporal patterns of predation by ants on eggs of Cactoblastis cactorum. Ecological Entomology 13: 207-214.
12. Soberon, J., J. Golubov, and J. Sarukhan. 2001. The Importance of Opuntia in Mexico and routes of invasion and impact of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Florida Entomologist 84(4).
13. Solis, M. A., D. H. Stemphen, and D. R. Gordon. 2004. Tracking the Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum Berg., as it flies and eats its way westward in the U.S. News of the Lepidopterists' Society.
14. Stange, G. 1997. Effects of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide on the location of host by the moth Cactoblastis cactorum. Oecologia 110: 539-545.
15. Stange, G., Monro, J., Stowe, S., and Osmond, C. B. 1995. the CO2 sense of the moth Cactoblastis cactorum and its probable role in the biological control of the CAM plant Opuntia stricta. Oecologia 102: 341-352
16. Stiling, P. 2002. Potential non-target effects of a biological control agent, prickly pear moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in North America, and possible management actions. Biological Invasions 4: 273-281, 2002.
17. Varnham, K. 2006. Non-native species in UK Overseas Territories: a review. JNCC Report 372. Peterborough: United Kingdom.
        Summary: This database compiles information on alien species from British Overseas Territories.
Available from: http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-3634 [Accessed 16 May 2006]
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