First record of <i>Xylotrechus chinensis</i> (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Greece and in the <scp>EPPO</scp> region

Leivadara, E.; Leivadaras, I.; Vontas, I.; Trichas, Apostolos; Simoglou, K. B.; Roditakis, Emmanouil; Avtzis, Dimitrios Ν.

doi:10.1111/epp.12468

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“…The device attached to a mulberry listening for the cerambycid pest Xylotrechus chinensis. The signal Back in 2017, in the island of Crete, Greece, and in Spain, it was observed [25][26] that several mulberries appeared to bear exit tunnels (see Fig. 3-left) that had not been observed before.…”

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TreeVibes: Modern tools for Global Monitoring of Trees Against Borers

Rigakis¹,

Potamitis²,

Tatlas³

et al. 2020

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Is there a wood-feeding insect inside a tree or wooden structure? We investigate several ways on how deep learning approaches can massively scan recordings of vibrations stemming from probed trees to infer their infestation state with wood-boring insects that feed and move inside wood. The recordings come from remotely controlled devices that sample the internal soundscape of trees on a 24/7 basis and wirelessly transmit brief recordings of the registered vibrations to a cloud server. We discuss the different sources of vibrations that can be picked up from trees in urban environments and how deep learning methods can focus on those originating from borers. Our goal is to match the problem of the accelerated—due to global trade and climate change— establishment of invasive xylophagus insects by increasing the capacity of inspection agencies. We aim at introducing permanent, cost-effective, automatic monitoring of trees based on deep learning techniques, in commodity entry point as well as in wild, urban and cultivated areas in order to effect large-scale, sustainable pest-risk analysis and management of wood boring insects such as those from the Cerambycidae family (longhorn beetles).

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Section: The Devicementioning

confidence: 84%

TreeVibes: Modern tools for Global Monitoring of Trees Against Borers

Rigakis¹,

Potamitis²,

Tatlas³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…Indeed, very shortly after, it was reported that in spring-summer 2017, around 200 mulberry trees near the harbour of the city of Heraklion (island of Crete, Greece) were found to be infested by this beetle. It was most likely introduced to the Heraklion area in 2014 or 2015 with commodities arrived at this port from its area of origin [ 6 ]. In July 2018, new outbreaks were detected in the Autonomous Community of València (Spain), specifically in Quartell and Sagunt (València) and Almenara (Castelló de la Plana) [ 7 ].…”

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The invasive longhorn beetle Xylotrechus chinensis, pest of mulberries, in Europe: Study on its local spread and efficacy of abamectin control

2021

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The invasive wasp-mimicking Tiger Longicorn Beetle, Xylotrechus chinensis, a potentially lethal pest of mulberry trees (Moraceae: Morus sp.), was first reported in Europe in 2018, although its colonization and establishment were estimated to have occurred during the year 2012 or earlier. In Catalonia the infestation spread from four towns and 44.1 km2 in 2018 to 12 towns and 378.1 km2 in 2020; in the studied town of Barberà del Vallès, infested trees rose from 16.21% in February 2016 to 59.29% in December 2018. Human safety in public parks and avenues is a concern, as beetle infestation increases the risk of falling branches. The main objective of this study was to evaluate how the infestation progresses over time, with and without abamectin treatment, and provide insights into female egg-laying preferences. Such knowledge helps contribute to management efforts to reduce expansion of the range of beetle infestation. Our statistical analysis shows that females prefer laying eggs on larger trees, on the highest part of trunks and on the crown base (this being more preferred than the trunk), and they do so on warmer, SW orientations rather than those facing N, NW and E. Emergence holes and gallery slits predict the spreading of infestations to new trees. An abamectin treatment (trunk injection) carried out at the end of April significantly reduced the number of new infestation. However, for maximum insecticide efficiency, the best time for treating with abamectin would be from mid-July to mid-August, when newly hatched larvae begin feeding on the phloem.

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“…Global trade and climate change facilitate the establishment of pest populations outside their native ranges. Larvae of invasive species breed in wooden pallets and are transported through ports, handling facilities or truck roads and, therefore, one after the other, species known to be ‘exotic pests’ appear in Europe [12] and US in places that are not biologically adapted to regulate their multiplication. Since identification of wood-boring larval insects is important for pest risk analysis and management, phytosanitary measures are commonly applied in points of entry such as commercial harbors and airports.…”

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In-Vivo Vibroacoustic Surveillance of Trees in the Context of the IoT

Potamitis

Rigakis

Tatlas

et al. 2019

Sensors

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This work introduces a device for long term systematic monitoring of trees against borers. A widely applied way to detect wood-boring insects is to insert a piezoelectric probe with an uncoated waveguide in the tree trunk and listen for locomotion or feeding sounds through headphones. This approach has several shortcomings: (a) frequent manual inspection of trees is costly and impractical to scale to hundreds or thousands of trees, (b) the larvae could be present but inactive during the inspection time and, (c) when the trees are in urban environments the background noise can be significant and can mask the feeble sounds of wood-boring insects even with the use of specialized headphones. We introduce a remotely controlled device that records and wirelessly transmits on a scheduled basis short recordings of the internal vibrations of a tree to a server. The user can listen remotely or process the recording automatically to infer the infestation state of the tree with wood-boring insects that feed or move inside the tree. When integrated within the IoT framework this device can scale up to automatically monitoring the trees of the entire city. The proposed approach led to detection results in field trials of the pests Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat) (Cerambycidae) and Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

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First record of Xylotrechus chinensis (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Greece and in the EPPO region

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

TreeVibes: Modern tools for Global Monitoring of Trees Against Borers

TreeVibes: Modern tools for Global Monitoring of Trees Against Borers

The invasive longhorn beetle Xylotrechus chinensis, pest of mulberries, in Europe: Study on its local spread and efficacy of abamectin control

In-Vivo Vibroacoustic Surveillance of Trees in the Context of the IoT

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