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Dr Barbara Barratt

Address: Dr Barbara Barratt
AgResearch Limited
Invermay Agricultural Centre
Puddle Alley
Private Bag 50034
Mosgiel
New Zealand
Phone:+64 3 489 3809
Fax:+64 3 489 3739
E-Mail:barbara.barratt@agresearch.co.nz

Current research interests

  • Applied agricultural entomology
  • Biosafety of biological control and GM plants
  • Non-target parasitism of biological control agents introduced to control weevil pests
  • Community composition and impacts of disturbance on native tussock grassland Coleoptera

Publications

1. Barker GM, Addison PJ, Firth AC, Barratt BIP 1996. Sitona lepidus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) newly established in New Zealand : assessment of distribution in the North Island. Proceedings of the 49th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference 266-269.
2. Barratt BIP, Barker GM, Addison PJ 1996. Sitona lepidus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential clover pest new to New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 19: 23-30.
3. Barratt BIP, Evans AA, Ferguson CM 1995. Circadian patterns of oviposition and feeding in Listronotus bonariensis (Kuschel) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the laboratory. Proceedings of the 48th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference 219-223.
4. Barratt BIP, Evans AA, Ferguson CM, Barker GM, McNeill MR, Phillips CB 1997. Laboratory nontarget host range of the introduced parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides and Microctonus hyperodae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) compared with field parasitism in New Zealand. Environmental Entomology 26: 694-702.
5. Barratt BIP, Evans AA, Ferguson CM, McNeill MR, Addison P 2000. Phenology of native weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand pastures and parasitism by the introduced braconid, Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 27: 93-110.
6. Barratt BIP, Evans AA, Ferguson CM, McNeill MR, Proffitt JR, Barker GM 1998. Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of New Zealand agricultural grassland and lucerne as potential non-target hosts of the parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides Loan and Microctonus hyperodae Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 25: 47-63.
7. Barratt BIP, Evans AA, Johnstone PD 1996. Effect of the ratios of Listronotus bonariensis and Sitona discoideus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to their respective parasitoids Microctonus hyperodae and Microctonus aethiopoides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), on parasitism, host oviposition and feeding in the laboratory. Bulletin of Entomological Research 86: 101-108.
8. Barratt BIP, Ferguson CM, Bixley AS, Crook KE, Barton DM, Johnstone PD 2007. Field parasitism of non-target weevil species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by the introduced biological control agent Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) over an altitude gradient. Environmental Entomology 36: 826-839.
9. Barratt BIP,  Ferguson CM,  Jones PA, Johnstone PD 1992. Effect of native weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on white clover establishment and yield in tussock grassland. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 35: 63-73.
10. Balalaikins M. In press. On Latvian Entiminae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): 1. genus Polydrusus Germar, 1817.
11. Barratt BIP,  Ferguson CM,  Logan RAS,  Murray TJ, Dickinson KJM 2003. Impact of burning on Coleoptera, particularly Curculionoidea, in New Zealand native tussock grassland. Invertebrate Biodiversity and Conservation Records of the South Australia Museum Monograph Series No. 7: 171-178.
12. Barratt BIP,  Jones PA, Ferguson CM 1993. Screening legumes for susceptibility to broad-nosed weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). In: Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Grassland Invertebrate Ecology Conference. R. A. Prestidge (Eds.). Hamilton, NZ. AgResearch.
13. Barratt BIP, Kuschel G 1996. Broad-nosed weevils (Curculionidae: Brachycerinae: Entimini) of the Lammermoor and Rock and Pillar Ranges in Otago, with descriptions of four new species of Irenimus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 23: 359-374.
14. Barratt BIP,  Oberprieler RG,  Ferguson CM, Hardwick S 2005. Parasitism of the lucerne pest Sitona discoideus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and non-target weevils by Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in south-eastern Australia, with an assessment of the taxonomic affinities of non-target hosts of M. aethiopoides recorded from Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Entomology 44: 192-200.
15. Barratt BIP,  Worner SP,  Affeld K,  Ferguson CM,  Barton DM,  Bell NL, Townsend RJ 2011. Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in Otago, Canterbury and the Central North Island of New Zealand VI. Coleoptera biodiversity, community structure, exotic species invasion, and the effect of disturbance by agricultural development. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
16. Evans AA,  Barratt BIP, Chapman RB 1997. Feeding by Sitona discoideus after exposure to the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides. In: Proceedings of the 50th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference. M. R. O'Callaghan (Eds.). University of Lincoln New Zealand Plant Protection Society Inc. 47-50.
17. Evans AA,  Barratt BIP, Emberson RM 1997. Field cage and laboratory parasitism of Nicaeana cervina by Microctonus aethiopoides. In: Proceedings of the 50th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference. M. R. O'Callaghan (Eds.). 18-21 August 1997. Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ New Zealand Plant Protection Society. 223-226.
18. Ferguson CM, Cresswell AS, Barratt BIP, Evans AA 1998. Non-target parasitism of the weed biological control agent, Rhinocyllus conicus Froelich (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). In: Pest Management - Future Challenges: Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Applied Entomological Research Conference. M. Zalucki, R. Drew and G. White (Eds.). I: 29 September - 2 October 1998. Brisbane The Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Pest Management. 517-524.
19. Ferguson CM, Evans AA, Barratt BIP 1996. Phenology of Listronotus bonariensis (Kuschel) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Otago. Proceedings 49th New Zealand Plant Protection Society Conference 270-274.
20. Ferguson CM,  Evans AA,  Shand JA, Barratt BIP 1994. Factors affecting the distribution of Listronotus bonariensis (Kuschel) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Otago and Southland. Proceedings of the 47th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference 279-281.
21. McNeill MR,  Barratt BIP, Evans AA 2000. Behavioural acceptability of Sitona lepidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) using the pathogenic bacterium Serratia marcescens Bizio. Biocontrol Science and Technology 10: 205-214.
22. Murray TJ,  Barratt BIP, Dickinson KJM 2003. Comparison of the weevil fauna (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in two tussock grassland sites in  Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33: 703-714.
23. Murray TJ,  Barratt BIP, Ferguson CM 2002. Field parasitism of Rhinocyllus conicus Froehlich (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Otago and South Canterbury. New Zealand Plant Protection 55: 263-266.
24. Murray TJ,  Dickinson KJM, Barratt BIP 2006. Associations between weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and plants, and conservation values in two tussock grasslands, Otago, New Zealand. Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 123-137.
25. Murray TJ,  Dickinson KJM, Barratt BIP 2006. Associations between weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and plants, and conservation values in two tussock grasslands, Otago, New Zealand. In: Arthropod diversity and conservation. D. L. Hawksworth and A. T. Bull (Eds.). Springer. Dortrecht, The Netherlands. 109-123
26. Phillips CB, Barratt BIP 2004. A guide to assist detection of newly arrived Sitona species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand and Australia. In: Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Grassland Invertebrate Ecology Conference. L. M. Winder and S. L. Goldson (Eds.). Christchurch AgResearch Ltd, Lincoln, NZ. 22-33.
27. ereijssen J,  Armstrong KF,  Barratt BIP,  Crawford AM,  McNeill MR, Goldson SL 2011. Evidence for parasitoid-induced premature mortality in the Argentine stem weevil. Physiological Entomology 36: 194–199.