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Cactoblastis cactorum, the cactus moth, South American cactus moth or nopal moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil.It is one of five species in the genus Cactoblastis that inhabit South America, where many parasitoids, predators and pathogens control the expansion of the moths' population.
Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg, 1885) [1] Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879 [2] Homoeosoma privata (Walker, 1875) [3] Hypargyria metalliferella Ragonot, 1888 [1] Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854) [3] Pyralis farinalis Linnaeus, 1758 [3] Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854 [1] Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885 [1]
A monument to the Cactoblastis cactorum moth at Dalby, Queensland. Prickly pear forest circa 1930 Infestation of O. tomentosa 2019, near Yelarbon, Queensland. Prickly pears (genus Opuntia) include a number of plant species that were introduced and have become invasive in Australia.
Cactoblastis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901 and is known from Argentina, ... Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg, 1885) ...
Cactoblastis cactorum (cactus moth) [6] Callinectes sapidus (blue crab) [7] Cerataphis lataniae (palm aphid) [8] Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) [5] Chilo suppressalis (striped rice stem borer) [9] Chthamalus proteus [10] Coptotermes formosanus (Formosan subterranean termite) Cryptotermes brevis (powderpost termite) [11]
Mexico eradicated outbreaks of the cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum and the USA contains its advance along the Gulf of Mexico coast. [30] [31] South Africa has a programme to suppress the false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta in citrus orchards. [32]
Efforts had been made to introduce the insect Cactoblastis cactorum in 1914, and it did feed on the prickly pear, but died out in 1921. In 1924, Cactoblastis cactorum was reintroduced, this time with success and destruction of the prickly pear. [7] [8] [9]
South American cactus moth (Cactoblastis cactorum: Phycitinae) – biological control of prickly pears (Opuntia). Southern pine coneworm, "pitch moth" (Dioryctria amatella: Phycitinae) – cone and shoot pest of pines (Pinus); southern North America.