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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#385623">Kathy Pendergrass<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">An adult Asian longhorned beetle—one of several invasive pests targeted by the European Biological Control Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2019—</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">Today marks the 100th
anniversary of the European Biological Control Laboratory (</span><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNDA1LjQyOTkyNDEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNDA1LjQyOTkyNDEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xODUwODU3MyZlbWFpbGlkPWthdGh5LnBlbmRlcmdyYXNzQG9yLnVzZGEuZ292JnVzZXJpZD1rYXRoeS5wZW5kZXJncmFzc0Bvci51c2RhLmdvdiZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&103&&&https://www.ars-ebcl.org/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006600">EBCL</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">),
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to find, describe and evaluate natural enemies of invasive pests and weeds that arrived in the United States from abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">The lab was established in Auch, France, in 1919 to find natural enemies of invasive insects originating in Europe, Eurasia and Africa. In 1959, the lab added invasive
weeds to the mission of its Rome, Italy, substation. Overtime, the lab moved from Auch to Hyères, then to different locations around Paris. In 1991, it was relocated to the outskirts of Montpellier, a coastal city in southern France.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">An original impetus for establishing the lab in 1919 was to find predatory insects or parasites that could biologically control (attack) the European corn borer, an
invasive pest whose U.S. arrival wreaked havoc on farmers’ corn and other crops. The EBCL’s list of biological control targets has since expanded to include the likes of the Brown marmorated stinkbug, Bagrada bug, Olive fruit fly and Asian long-horned beetle.
French broom, Yellow star thistle, Ventenata, Medusa head and Giant Reed are among invasive weeds being targeted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">“The rise in global commerce and travel has increased the risk of invasive species entering the United States from abroad—and vice versa,” noted ARS Administrator
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the harm invasive species can cause to our crops and native plants and animals.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">Biological control offers a sustainable, long-term solution by “reuniting” these invasive species with the natural enemies they left behind in their native habitats,
noted Dr. Jacobs-Young, who attended a centennial anniversary event in Montpellier today together with ARS Associate Administrator Steven Kappes, ARS Office of International Research Programs Director Bryan Norrington, U.S. Consul General Simon Hankinson (Marseille,
France) and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141414">Dr. Jacobs-Young said the EBCL is a strategically located facility where natural enemies collected from their hosts’ points of origin can be studied, reared, tested,
packaged and shipped to stateside cooperators. Upon arrival, candidate biocontrol agents undergo additional testing to ensure their safety, host-specificity and effectiveness prior to their release against targeted hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anagyrus kamali</span></em> whose biological control of pink hibiscus mealybug saved $700 million in annual U.S. crop losses. Another wasp,
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A. pseudococci,</span></em> released to control vine mealybug in California, helped reduce insecticide use there by 15 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#141414;margin-bottom:5.25pt;line-height:140%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Parasite and predatory insect releases in the 1980s whose biocontrol of alfalfa weevils resulted in pesticide reductions of 95 percent and more than $100 million in annual savings.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#141414;margin-bottom:5.25pt;line-height:140%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A biocontrol wasp, leaf-mining midge and scale insect whose releases at numerous Texas sites since 2009 have helped thin infestations of Giant reed, an invasive plant of waterways
that weakens river banks, stifles native vegetation and causes other harm.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#141414;margin-bottom:5.25pt;line-height:140%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Development of molecular genetic tools to better study biocontrol agents and ultralow volume sprayers combined with modern guidance technologies to control biting pests like sandflies
that can spread disease while preserving beneficial insects.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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