Anoplophora in Europe: Infestations and Management Responses

Abstract

larval specimens could be assigned to the species A. glabripennis. The Bavarian plant protection service started monitoring the pest in Neukirchen. In 2002, at Gien (France), during a barbecue party that took place at the end of the school year, three longhorned beetles were disturbed by smoke and fell down on a table placed under the crown of a maple tree. The unknown specimens were placed by a student in a container for later identification. As the specimens did not belong to a species from the French fauna, in March 2003, they were passed to an entomologist in the Museum of Natural History in Dijon. The person, realizing that the insect may belong to a dangerous exotic pest, passed the specimens to the National Laboratory of the French