New booklet — New Species, New Challenges - The Spread and Management of Invasive Non-Native Species in Hungary
The publication New Species, New Challenges - The Spread and Management of Invasive Non-Native Species in Hungary has been released.
The izeltlabuak.hu website primarily focuses on arthropods found in Hungary. This entry also deals with Hungarian fauna.
About the publication
The natural heritage of the Carpathian Basin is increasingly threatened by non-native invasive species: their large-scale, ongoing introduction poses challenges to nature, agriculture, animal husbandry, and human health that have few historical parallels.
In response, the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research has published the popular-science volume New Species, New Challenges - The Spread and Management of Invasive Non-Native Species in Hungary, at roughly 60 pages. It aims to help readers navigate invasive processes in an accessible yet scientifically sound way, and to offer practical guidance for reducing harm.
The publication walks readers through the stages of invasion—from introduction and establishment to spread and large-scale dominance. It stresses that invasion is not a single event but a sequence of linked phases in which early detection and rapid response are decisive.
The book presents several non-native and invasive species already present in Hungary, illustrated with concrete examples. Its conceptual frame is One Biosecurity: the health of nature, people, farmed animals, and crops is inseparable, and a single invasive species can pose ecological, economic, and public-health risks at once.
The volume is available online from the Centre for Ecological Research website; a print edition will follow soon. Further context is provided in a news article on the same site.
For their treatment of Halyomorpha halys, the authors drew on observation records from izeltlabuak.hu.
The species highlighted below are represented in the Hungarian species list on izeltlabuak.hu.
Source
Affected species:
- suborder: Heteroptera
- family: Pentatomidae
- genus: Halyomorpha
- species: Halyomorpha halys
- suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
- family: Flatidae
- genus: Metcalfa
- species: Metcalfa pruinosa
- order: Diptera
- family: Culicidae
- genus: Aedes
- species: Aedes albopictus
- suborder: Sternorrhyncha
- family: Coccidae
- genus: Ceroplastes
- species: Ceroplastes ceriferus