Paoli (Dr Guido)
Original title: Paoli (Dr. Guido)
Italian plant pathologist who visited Funchal in March 1922 to collect a parasitic wasp for biological control of a citrus scale insect, and published several papers on the mission.
He is inspector of plant diseases and director of the Regional Phytopathological Observatory of Liguria (Observatorio Regional de Fitopatologia da Liguria). He was in Funchal from 6 to 17 March 1922, commissioned by the Italian government to study and collect Aspidiotiphagus lounsburyi, a small hymenopteran that parasitises Chrysomphalus dictyospermi, a limpet or scale insect that lives on various plant species and has caused great devastation in the orange groves of Italy. Works:
- Un modo di difendere le piante contro gli assalti della formica dell' Argentina (La Costa Azurra Agricola–Floreale II no. 6, 1922)
- La Bianca-Rossa degli agrumi e l'introduzione del suo parassita (Agricoltura Ligure, no. 6, ser. 3, anno I, 1922)
- il parassita della bianca - rossa degli agrumi e la sua introduzione in Italia (il Coltivatore, no. 15, 1922)
- Isolator, per difendere le piante contro la formica dell' Argentina (Redia, XV, 1922)
- and Una missione nell' isola di Madera. . . (Nuovo Annali del Ministero per l'Agricoltura, II, 3, 1922).
In all these publications Dr Paoli refers to what he saw and studied during his short stay in Funchal.
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- Funchal
Where Paoli stayed and worked in March 1922.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Italy
Country whose orange groves were devastated by the scale insect.
Italy is referred to in several contexts. It was the place of exile of Bishop D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade in 1834, and it was visited on the 1926 Madeiran pilgrimage. An Italian sanctuary was reputedly the model for the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça.
- Liguria
Italy. Italian region whose phytopathology observatory Paoli directed.
Italian region whose phytopathology observatory Paoli directed.
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Italian plant pathologist sent by the Italian government to Funchal in 1922 to study and collect Aspidiotiphagus lounsburyi, a parasite of the citrus scale Chrysomphalus dictyospermi.