Greater St Johns Wort beetle at Latham, ACT
Identification history
| Chrysolina quadrigemina | 17 Oct 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Chrysolina quadrigemina | 17 Oct 2020 | pinnaCLE |
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User's notes
A patch with much young Wort rapidly growing but not in flower. Second photo shows the healthy Beetle population can have good biocontrol, wherever enough insects work!
2 comments
Rosie
wrote:
18 Oct 2020
Good to know these have made a start at Umbagong! Thanks for recording them. Rosie, on behalf of the Landcare Group!
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
18 Oct 2020
Unfortunately the beetles are only partially effective, but any effort on their part is worthwhile.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.031423-35.211060
- Maps Umbagong District Park
- Places Latham, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 16 Oct 2020 10:23 AM Recorded on
- pinnaCLE Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) pinnaCLE Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Chrysolina quadrigemina Scientific name
- Greater St Johns Wort beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1025.94m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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