Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Cairns, Thursday Island and Seisia
offices of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS - Australian
Government Department of Agriculture) for support throughout this
project. In particular, the authors thank Dr. Barbara Waterhouse and Dr.
Sally Cowan for logistical support, technical knowledge and provision of
samples, as well as Harold Matthew and Ilana Foster for invaluable
assistance in running the field experiments. The authors also
acknowledge the Torres Strait Regional Authority, Torres Shire Council,
Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, Northern Peninsula Area
Regional Council, Seisia Enterprises, Apudthama Land Trust, and
MyPathways who provided permission and support to conduct experiments
within the Torres Strait and the Northern Peninsula Area. Thanks also to
Dr. Mallik Malipatil and Dr. Peter Ridland for assistance with
morphological identifications and provision of some leafminer samples,
and Dr. Olivia Reynolds for technical support on the manuscript.
Finally, we thank the two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful
comments.