Lantana biocontrol
Biological control of lantana is a long-term control option and has had mixed results. The objective is to reduce plant viability and prevent its further spread by stressing plants and reducing seeding processes. In some cases it has resulted in die-back of the lantana plants.
Lantana biocontrol agents have been released in Australia since 1914. Many of the agents are specific to one or several of the different lantana varieties found in Australia.
The information sheets below describe each of the agents that have established within Australia:
- Teleonemia scrupulosa - bug (PDF, 878.3KB)
- Uroplata girardi - beetle (PDF, 792.1KB)
- Octotoma scabripennis - beetle (PDF, 873.5KB)
- Ophiomyia lantanae - fly (PDF, 496.4KB)
- Leptobyrsa decora - bug (PDF, 851.1KB)
- Hypena laceratalis - moth (PDF, 824.1KB)
- Salbia haemorrhoidalis - moth (PDF, 843.8KB)
- Neogalea sunia - moth (PDF, 776.2KB)
- Calycomyza lantanae - fly (PDF, 654.1KB)
- Lantanophaga pusillidactyla - moth (PDF, 649.6KB)
- Epinotia lantana - moth (PDF, 616.7KB)
- Octotoma championi - beetle (PDF, 739.6KB)
- Uroplata fulvopustulata - beetle (PDF, 766.3KB)
- Phenacoccus parvus - bug (PDF, 580.4KB)
- Aconophora compressa - bug (PDF, 981.3KB)
- Falconia intermedia - bug (PDF, 829.4KB)
- Prospodium tuberculatum - rust (PDF, 556.8KB)
