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Store and Transport

Store and Transport. Store insects in refrigerator or cooler with ice pack. KEEP FROM FREEZING! Transport in cooler with ice pack separated from insect container by paper/packing material Moths: last 1-3 days Beetles tougher!: last 3-7 days. Release & Redistribute.

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Store and Transport

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  1. Store and Transport • Store insects in refrigerator or cooler with ice pack. KEEP FROM FREEZING! • Transport in cooler with ice pack separated from insect container by paper/packing material • Moths: last 1-3 days • Beetles tougher!: last 3-7 days.

  2. Release & Redistribute -collect some in your net, drive a ways and flip the net out the window. -dump the insects out of the container and onto the weeds.

  3. Clip board, forms, GPS unit, camera, flags or stakes • Be with land owner if possible! • Find best spot for insects & land owner…Think a decade out • Take the time to completely fill out form - on site! • Make concise map from known point of origin • GPS and photograph • Keep “T” and “E” data in several spots • Release insects, don’t drive/walk over them • Wish them luck!!! :^) Release Site

  4. Release Site Views (8)

  5. Monitor yearly if possible • Monitor when bioagent is out as adult (or can find in stem/root) • Find site and sweep net through the area • Take follow up photos if change in weed density • Be prepared for bursts of usable insects! Monitoring

  6. What Monitoring Has Found • Aphthona (leafy spurge flea beetle) sites. • Oberea (leafy spruge stem/root boring beetle). • Larinus minutus (spotted knapweed seed head weevil).

  7. Contact Land Owners: • Each year call every land owner and ask them what they want us to do: nothing, monitor, redistribute, augment and/or public collection day • Great way to educate about IPM! • Land Owners come to expect this service • Good PR for County, School and all weed fighters • Find useful bursts of insects!

  8. Found well established 2001 – knapweed seed heads • Not sure how it got there… • Collected 7,640 in summer ’02 • Up to 31K in ’04, now do less because well established… Larinus minutus

  9. Bangasternus fausti • Chaetorellia acrolophi • Larinus obtusis • Metzneria paucipunctella------------------------------- • Pelochrista medullana (no photo) • Pterolonche inspersa----- • Sphenoptera jugoslavica • Terellia virens • Urophora affinis • Urophora quadrifasciata Other Knapweed Bio-Agents

  10. Released 9 pair in cage early 1990’s – spurge root borer • 2000 = 250, 2001 = 500, including public net day • 2002 = 1,567, + another public net day, ’03 = 3,000, ’04 = 2,700, ‘05 = 2,500, ’06 = 492. ’07 = 1,312 • Established all over our area. We collect for requests. Oberea erythrocephala

  11. Number & label sites • GPS coordinate units: long-lat. or UTM’s • Crew can practice doing geocaching • Mapping program: ArcMap, All Topo, etc. • Mesh with county, local agencies and State • One of these may do mapping for you! (student class?) • One person in charge • Keep T/E data in several spots • Make usable to YOU, then others!! • Landowner data is PRIVATE! [bug rustlers…] Mapping

  12. Mapping

  13. Mapping

  14. GPS Map & Monitor all Release Sites • Keep T-data and E-data, in 3 places! • Use All Topo Maps and ArcView • Helps plan and prioritize releases • Helps us find useful bursts of insects for collection and net days • Students can use in classes • looks cool!

  15. Land owners have “ownership” • Great education opportunity • PR Value! Bio-Agent Collection (Net) Days

  16. Tours, Workshops, Summer Class • Weekly Summer Newspaper Articles – Use mtwow.org web site • Build Cooperative Relationships.

  17. How to write yourself and your students a great summer job! • Keep It Simple! NWTF, NRCS, Conservation Districts • Cooperate with County Weed District & School • Contact BLM, FS, State, Extension Service, Conservation District, Water Shed Council, local industry, local landowners, 4-H/FFA, and your students.

  18. Bio-agent Collection • Insect Storage/Transport • Release Site Location • Release/Augmentation • Monitoring/Mapping • Landowner Relations • Public Collection Days Conclusion:

  19. Vision: Similar programs in every county involving every school! • We will be glad to help! • How-to info. on mtwow.org web site • Email: tbreit@whitehallmt.org, ph: 498-5236 • Summer class and tours any time!

  20. Questions? • Photos credited on the mtwow.org web site. Many by: • Bob Richard, Rich Hansen – USDA-APHIS-PPQ • Whitehall High School Students • Todd Breitenfeldt & • Many others!!! Thanks :^)

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