Publications by authors named "Matteo Marchioro"
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- * They cause significant economic and ecological damage both by burrowing into plants and carrying harmful pathogens.
- * This study provides a comprehensive list of host plants for 2,193 scolytine species across 16 tribes, essential for improving monitoring strategies to prevent the introduction of new invasive species.
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- The EFSA Panel on Plant Health conducted an assessment of non-EU Scolytinae species that affect non-coniferous plants in the EU, highlighting 5220 relevant species out of an initial 6495.
- These beetles primarily target weakened or dead trees, with behaviors ranging from monogamous to polygynous mating systems, and many species are associated with fungi that help them weaken their hosts.
- A database was created documenting host plants, feeding habits, geographic distribution, and climate types, ultimately identifying 88 species that significantly impact plant health, categorized by their level of threat.
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- The text discusses various tribes of beetles (Scolytinae) that feed on different plant materials, causing damage to host plants and potentially spreading harmful pathogens that can lead to plant death.
- It highlights the significance of the international trade in plants and wood as a means of introducing non-native beetle species that can threaten ecosystems and agriculture.
- The paper aims to enhance pest risk assessment and monitoring strategies by providing a comprehensive and updated list of host plants and their economic uses for 2,139 species of these beetles.
Xyleborini is the largest tribe of Scolytinae accounting for about 1300 species worldwide; all species are primarily xylomycetophagous, developing on symbiotic fungi farmed in plant woody tissues. Xyleborini wood-boring action, associated with the inoculum of symbiotic fungi, can lead, sometimes, to the emergence of host plant dieback, wood damage and death; for this reason, multiple Xyleborini are major pests on both cultivated, forest and ornamental trees. Many Xyleborini are invasive worldwide and great effort is expended to manage their biological invasions or prevent new arrivals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) are amongst the most important wood-boring insects introduced to Europe. During field investigations conducted between 2019 and 2021 in different countries and regions of Europe, many exotic species have been recorded providing new and relevant data.
New Information: (Murayama, 1933) is recorded in Europe for the first time.
The Asian Longhorn Beetle (ALB), (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is an important and extremely polyphagous wood-boring beetle native to Asia. In the 1990s, ALB was accidentally introduced into North America and Europe. In 2009, a large ALB infestation was found in the Veneto Region (north-eastern Italy), in the municipality of Cornuda (Treviso province).
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- The introduction of alien insects has risen due to shipping, leading to tests on traps for hitchhiker insects using various light wavelengths.
- Different combinations of light, glue, and insecticide were tested to determine their effectiveness on four insect species inside a shipping container.
- The findings indicate that specific light colors attract certain insects, and using stronger glue enhances beetle captures, suggesting that sticky light traps could be a viable method for pest control, with further research needed on multi-color effectiveness.
Bark and ambrosia beetles are commonly moved among continents within timber and fresh wood-packaging materials. Routine visual inspections of imported commodities are often complemented with baited traps set up in natural areas surrounding entry points. Given that these activities can be expensive, trapping protocols that attract multiple species simultaneously are needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsects are one of the most successful groups of invasive species, and the number of new introductions has been increasing in the last decades. Insect invasions are affected mainly by the increase in international trade, as most of them travel across the world inside shipping containers. The effectiveness of sticky light traps was tested for the interception of alien pests inside the containers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLonghorn beetles are among the most important groups of invasive forest insects worldwide. In parallel, they represent one of the most well-studied insect groups in terms of chemical ecology. Longhorn beetle aggregation-sex pheromones are commonly used as trap lures for specific and generic surveillance programs at points of entry and may play a key role in determining the success or failure of exotic species establishment.
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