The Life of a Pest

Wanderer, Emily

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“…What projects might transpire from loving Euglandina will vary around their ethics and politics of engagement. Maybe, as in the case of invasive species biologists on Guadalupe Island, Mexico, "care for the pest" (Wanderer, 2020) might resemble tracking individuals as they reveal hidden conspecifics for collective extermination or getting to know pests to better orient killing practices. Perhaps, by drawing on a wide genealogy of snail-love tactics that I have begun to articulate, Euglandinid habits and preferences might be sufficiently parsed, and Euglandina might be productively enfolded into their novel island ecosystems (Hill & Hadly, 2018).…”

Section: Snails Tumbled Into Snails: Biological Control and Knowing E...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This entails provincializing the notion of 'alien' -and thereby reconsidering links between 'native' and 'alien' categories -in knowing Euglandina. In practice, 'native' and 'alien' are taxonomies often deployed paratactically in pursuit of understanding species arrangements across patchy landscapes where the figuring of natives-becoming-alien and aliens-becoming-native is always in flux (Helmreich, 2005;Wanderer, 2020). Helmreich (2005) identified that invasive species biologists in Hawai'i assess the category of 'native' according not to context, but rather parameters of time, agency, and the politics of nature and culture that render Kānaka maoli and Western taxonomies as adjacent and sometimes mutually intelligible.…”

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Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands

Galka¹

2022

ISJ

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Hawaiian island land snails once represented one of the most diverse archipelagic evolutionary radiations. Historically, indigenous Hawaiians (Kānaka maoli) and Westerners also heard some snails (kāhuli) sing. Today, most of these species are extinct or endangered. One major cause has been the intentional mid-20th century introduction of a land snail, Euglandina rosea, for the biological control of another mollusk, Lissachatina fulica. In this article, I join efforts of noticing and engaging landscapes of the situated Anthropocene with the goal of demonstrating the potential for mollusks to be dynamic alliance-forming companions. In articulating methods of becoming with snails, I pass kāhuli through Western and Kānaka maoli knowledge-making projects. First considering the evolutionary biological work of John Gulick and his counterparts to genealogize contemporary snail-love, I then elaborate on what care and hope might mean with Pacific Island land snails living through ongoing environmental dispossession and alteration. I then reconsider Euglandina on parallel conceptual terms, engaging natural historical and laboratory accounts to think with the introduced mollusk beyond its categorization as ‘alien invader’. Loving Euglandina as well as kāhuli may help realize livable futures for indigenous and introduced Hawaiian island mollusks alike, in a world hopefully full of snail-song.

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Section: Snails Tumbled Into Snails: Biological Control and Knowing E...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands

Galka¹

2022

ISJ

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“…6,7 Alien and invasive species may arrive on imports encompassing a variety of commodities, including agricultural produce, greenhouse and ornamental plants, nursery stock, cut flowers, wood products, stored products and packing materials. 8,9 Global air transportation and road transportation greatly facilitate the unintended spread of pests, including invasive species, because of the large volumes of goods and people transported internationally 10 which also are gradually increasing every year 11 . Given the tremendous increases in global passenger travel, there is a need to better characterise the extent to which passenger baggage serves as an invasion pathway for alien and invasive species.…”

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Phytosanitary risk associated with illegal importation of pest-infested commodities to the South African agricultural sector

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Nnzeru²,

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S. Afr. J. Sci.

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We evaluated the phytosanitary risk associated with illegal importation of pest-infested plant commodities into South Africa. Samples were collected from different South African ports of entry over 8 years (2011 to 2019) and data were analysed descriptively using Statistical Software Package. Pests were frequently detected on commodity species such as Citrus (18.31%), Zea mays (13.22%), Phaseolus vulgaris (12.88%), Musa spp. (9.15%) and Fragaria ananassa (5.08%). The highest number of pests intercepted occurred on fresh fruits (44.06%), followed by grains (26.44%) and vegetables (14.23%). The most intercepted organisms were Callosobruchus rhodesianus (7.79%), Dysmicoccus brevipes (7.11%), Callosobruchus maculates (6.10%) and Phyllosticta citricarpa (4.74%). The majority of intercepted organisms were non-quarantine organisms (70.50%), followed by pests of unknown status (17.28%), quarantine pests (10.84%) and potential quarantine pests (1.35%). Phyllosticta citricarpa, Bactrocera dorsalis, Spodoptera frugiperda and Prostephanus truncatus were the only quarantine pests intercepted in terms of South African regulatory status. The interception was mainly from southern African countries, particularly Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Eswatini. The findings present the level of phytosanitary risk associated with illegal importation and/or non-compliance in regard to plants and plant commodities from different countries through South African ports of entry. Crop production, biodiversity, food security, existing export markets, and access to new export markets could be threatened as importing countries may impose stringent phytosanitary measures to limit the chances of introduction and establishment of quarantine pests into their territories.

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Rodineliussen

2024

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands

Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands

Phytosanitary risk associated with illegal importation of pest-infested commodities to the South African agricultural sector

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