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Release and establishment of the baculovirus disease of Oryctes rhinoceros (L.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Papua New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

B. D. Gorick
B. D. Gorick
Affiliation:
Lowlands Agricultural Experiment Station, Keravat, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
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Abstract

Oryctes rhinoceros (L.) is a major pest of coconut palms in Papua New Guinea but has a limited distribution within the country. Pre-release monitoring showed that no baculovirus disease was present in the country prior to its importation. A consignment of O. rhinoceros larvae infected with a baculovirus disease was imported into Papua New Guinea from Western Samoa in 1977. The virus proved highly infectious to both larvae and adults of the local population of O. rhinoceros. During 1978 and 1979, adults were perorally infected with the baculovirus and released at nine sites on Manus Island, four sites on New Ireland and twelve sites on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain. The infected adults were active disseminators of the virus into the field population, and the virus became established at nearly all the release sites. The shortest time between virus release and recapture of newly infected adults from a release site was eight weeks. Three different examples indicated the virus spread at approximately 1 km/month. During a fourteen-week period in the early establishment phase, significantly more females than males were collected in traps but a significantly higher percentage of the males was infected.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 445 - 453
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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