Annual Report of Introduced Beneficial Organisms Released in the United States and Territories - 1981

Section IV - Introduced Pollinators and Other Beneficial Species Released in the U.S. and Territories - 1981

Arranged Alphabetically by Genus-species of Released Organism, State, County

Species Released     Origin               Released -
Genus                Country,State        State, County       File Number
Species, Subspecies  Facilities           Total, Stage        Releaser Acronym
Author               Collector               No. of Sites        Name              Target
     Order, Family      Acronym/          Month /SEE NOTES    * = Specimens Kept   (at time of release)

Euoniticellus        USA, CA              TX Gillespie        VTERL-RRB-81-0003    cattle dung &
intermedius          UCDEXT                  500  A      1    VTERL                horn fly
(Reiche)                                  Oct                 Blume, R R
     Coleoptera
     Scarabaeidae

Onitis               USA, CA              TX Burleson         VTERL-GTF-81-0002    SAME 
alexis               UCDEXT                  150  A      1    VTERL                     
Klug                                      Aug                 Fincher, G T
     Coleoptera
     Scarabaeidae

Onthophagus          Pakistan             TX Gillespie        VTERL-RRB-81-0001    SAME 
bonasus              VTERL                  1086  A      3    VTERL		         
(Fabricius)                               Aug                 Blume, R R
     Coleoptera
     Scarabaeidae

Osmia                MD, Prince Georges   DC Washington City  BIIL-SWTB-81-0005    apple
cornifrons           BIIL/SWTB               150e A IN C 1    DCGU
(Radoszkowski)                            Mar                 Barrows, E
     Hymenoptera
     Megachilidae

                     MD, Prince Georges   MD Prince Georges   BIIL-SWTB-81-0004    SAME
                     BIIL/SWTB               150e A      1    MDHWK
                                          Mar                 Kerr, H W

                     Japan, Honshu        MD Prince Georges   BIRL-81-0012         SAME
                     JATNAES/YM             2504  A,P    1    BIIL
                                          Apr                 Batra, S W T

                     MD, Prince Georges   NC Wake             BIIL-SWTB-81-0002    SAME
                     BIRL                    587  A IN C 1    NCSU
                     BIIL/SWTB            Feb                 Kuhn, E D

Osmia                UT, Cache            NC Wilkes           BBSL-PFT-81-0001     SAME
lignaria propinqua   BBSL/PFT               1204  A      1    NCSU
Cresson                                   Apr                 Kuhn, E D
     Hymenoptera
     Megachilidae

Pithitis             India                MD Prince Georges   BIRL-81-0157         tomato
smaragdula           ML                      765e A,L    1    BIIL
(Fabricius)          COMBI/VP             Sep                 Batra, S W T
     Hymenoptera
     Anthophoridae


NOTES

122 Caged release in greenhouse.  Material may have also included some Pithitis binghami (Cockerell).