Research on Microsporidia as Potential Classical and Augmentative Biological Control Agents of the Gypsy Moth

Proceedings, XV USDA Interagency Research Forum on Gypsy Moth and Other Invasive Species 2004 GTR-NE-332 RESEARCH ON MICROSPORIDIA AS POTENTIAL CLASSICAL AND AUGMENTATIVE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS OF THE GYPSY MOTH L. Solter1, V. D’Amico2, D. Goertz3, G. Hoch4, M. Hylis8, A. Linde3, M. McManus2, J. Novotny5, D. Pilarska6, P. Solter7, J. Vavra8, J. Weiser8 and M. Zubrik5 1Illinois Natural History Survey, 140 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody Dr., Urbana, IL 61801, USA 2USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station, 51 Mill Pond Rd., Hamden, CT 06514, USA 3Fachhochschule Eberswalde, Alfred-Moeller Str. 1, Eberswalde, D-16225, Germany 4Institut fur Forstentomologie, Forstpathologie und Forstschutz, Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Hasenauerstrasse 38, Wein 1190, Austria 5Forest Research Institute, Lesnicka 11, 96900 Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republik 6Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria 7Dept. Of Pathobiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois, 2001 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA 8Dept. of Parasitology, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic