Introduced Insects: A Biogeographic and Systematic Perspective
Introduced Insects: A Biogeographic and Systematic Perspective
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引进昆虫：生物地理学和系统学视角
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4612-4988-7_1
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发表时间：
1986
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D. Simberloff
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作者：
D. Simberloff
引进的昆虫主要是在成为“害虫”时才引起公众的注意。火蚁、杀人蜂、舞毒蛾、日本甲虫和科罗拉多马铃薯甲虫对我们的经济和环境的影响是众所周知的。后者甚至在国际政治中发挥了作用。第三赖希的农业部在第二次世界大战开始前就对英国人产生了敌意，因为有谣言说英国飞机在德国农民储存大量土豆的地区投放了甲虫的幼虫。而且，在冷战最寒冷的时刻之一，苏联声称美国用科罗拉多马铃薯甲虫轰炸了东欧，俄罗斯媒体称之为“华尔街的六条腿大使”（Kahn 1984）。
Introduced insects attract public attention primarily when they become “pests.” The impact of fire ants, killer bees, gypsy moths, Japanese beetles, and Colorado potato beetles on our economy and environment is well known. The last have even played roles in international politics. The Ministry of Agriculture under the Third Reich generated antagonism against the British before the start of World War II with the rumor that English planes had dropped larvae of the beetle on areas where the German farmers had massive stores of potatoes. And, during one of the most frigid moments of the Cold War, the Soviet Union claimed that the United States had bombed eastern Europe with the Colorado potato beetle, which the Russian press called “the six-legged ambassador of Wall Street” (Kahn 1984).