Monolepta australis

by admin | November 10, 2021 12:54 pm

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_qmUYI4Wc [1]  from Daleys website.
   
• Paul Recher says that the classic method of handling monolepta when you know they are around is to make a fire and the beetles fly into it. He was told this in 1977 when he worked as nursery manager at a farm for handicapped with big avocado plantation where a few trees were getting hit hard. He then read the same thing in a book about the fire thing being used in late 1890’s early twentieth century.

Common Name: Redshouldered leaf beetleReferences: http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/26_9830.htmhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1982.tb01777.x/pdf

Source URL: https://stfc.org.au/pests/monolepta-australis/

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