IPMnet NEWS May 1999, Issue no. 65 ISSN: 1523-7893 Š Copyright 2005 IPM NEWS --- international IPM news and programs I. IPM NEWS / APPLICATIONS international IPM news and programs U.S. IPM Goal Still Distant With only 18 months remaining, there will need to be an abrupt and dramatic shift in the USA's pest management practices if the nation expects to meet its announced goal "to implement IPM on 75 percent of all cropped acres by the end of the year 2000," noted H.D. Coble, national IPM coordinator for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, during a recent IPM conference. Coble presented "IPM The National Perspective" as a featured speaker at the regional conference, "IPM in Oregon: Achievements and Future Directions," convened in April 1999. The hard fact, he told attendees, is that 70 percent of the nation's crop land is planted to four major crops maize/corn, soybean, wheat, and cotton in which weeds are the predominant pest problem and where nearly 90 percent of the cropped area primarily relies on chemical management techniques. Clearly, he said, to have any hope of reaching the national IPM goal, efforts need to be focused on these crops that offer the greatest opportunities for reduced pesticide applications. Approximately 50 percent of U.S. crop land currently falls in the categories of low to medium IPM along a spectrum ranging from zero to full participation. In terms of improved weed management and with an eye toward the 75 percent IPM goal, Dr. Coble cited four strategic approaches to realize expanded IPM: prevention, avoidance, monitoring, and suppression, embracing many of the following practices: PREVENTION Use pest-free seeds or transplants; Remove alternate (pest) hosts; Clean equipment before moving between fields; Employ field sanitation measures. AVOIDANCE Rotate primary crops with other, non-host crops; Take steps to employ crop plant resistance; Use trap crops; Carefully select cultivars; Leave parts of fields unplanted. MONITORING Conduct surveys for pest infestations; Perform frequent, competent scouting; Keep thorough records, including weather data; Consider precision agriculture (global positioning); Use monitoring data to devise pest management tactics. SUPPRESSION Alter crop plant spacing; Change time of crop planting; Utilize tillage alternatives; Consider flame cultivation; Plant and maintain cover crops and living mulches; Use classical biocontrol; For chemicals, use the least toxic at lowest effective rate. Coble pointed toward a need to implement decision support systems with emphasis on detection, threshold-based remedial action, and a mix of suppression strategies, including judicious use of pesticides when necessary. The overall goal: stabilize pest populations below economically damaging levels while minimizing impact on the ecology. The vision is that wide
scale adoption of IPM by growers will result in an economically viable, environmentally compatible, socially acceptable, and agriculturally sustainable production system. Among several objectives, Coble noted the vital necessity to insure availability of information and technology to growers, to measure adoption by growers, and to promote biologically intensive IPM. FMI: H.D. Coble, USDA IPM Coordinator, USDA-CSREES, IPM Program, MS 2220, Washington, DC 20250-2220, USA E-mail: hcoble@reeusda.gov Australian Group Looks Ahead With an eye toward the next century, the Australian Centre for International Research (ACIAR) has launched several international pest management-related initiatives designed to build on its notable existing record. Bemisia tabaci (whitefly), "one of the most intractable and devastating pests of vegetable and cotton industries throughout the world," according to authorities, feeds on, and damages, crops and can transmit crop diseases that, in certain situations, result in complete crop loss. To help address this global pest problem, ACIAR has lent its support to the internationally organized "CIAT-Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management: Sustainable Integrated Management of Whiteflies as Pests and Vectors of Plant Viruses in Asia." Via this link, ACIAR is supporting efforts to improve understanding of whitefly in Asia, determine its extent, and study the dynamics of the virus diseases it carries. In the area of noxious weeds, ACIAR supports a program of "Improving Smallholder Farming Systems in Imperata Areas of Southeast Asia: Alternatives to Shifting Cultivation." Imperata cylindrica (L.), also known as "alang-alang," or cogongrass, enjoys notoriety as one of the "world's worst weeds," and is a particular problem in Asia. Back in Australia, the Centre is working to develop electronic versions of many of the holdings in its extensive, 300-title publication list (monographs, proceedings, etc.) produced in recent years. FMI: ACIAR, GPO Box 1571, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA E-mail: comms@aciar.gov.au Fax: 61-02-6217-0501 Phone: 61-02-6217-0500 Website: www.aciar.gov.au drawn from: ACIAR NEWSLETTER 33, June 1998-February 1999. GLOBAL IPM NOTES ## Research underway may lead to a special treatment for ordinary clothing that gives cloth the ability to reduce some pesticide droplets to inert particles on contact. The work, being conducted at the Univ. of California, involves the chemicals hydantoin and chlorine. When the treated fabric contacts certain pesticides, chlorine is released disinfecting the cloth and neutralizing the pesticide. The process would not be meant to replace impermeable clothing used during application, but could help protect field workers from lingering residues. > G. Sun, e-mail: gysun@ucdavis.edu. ## The understood rock-solid tenet that broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) is healthful to humans because of providing glucosinates, recently took a direct hit from research revealing that broccoli, and other Brassica plants (cabbage, rapeseed, kale, mustard, turnips, radishes), remove bromide from the soil, convert it to methyl bromide (MBr), and release it into the atmosphere. Scientists also speculate that, beside Brassicaceae, there may be many other terrestrial plant families that produce and release MBr. That possibility factors into global efforts to reduce the agricultural pesticidal use of MBr, an identified ozone depletor. What it means for reducing human intake of broccoli and cabbage hasn't been addressed, as yet. >
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back to top IPM MEDLEY --- publications and other IPM information resources II. IPM MEDLEY general matters, publications of interest, and other resources for IPM information FAO Launches Information System FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) has released the first edition of its ambitious new GLOBAL PLANT & PEST INFORMATION SYSTEM (GPPIS), an Internet-based version of an earlier compendium of worldwide plant protection information, that includes a free compact disc, an accompanying instruction booklet, and an invitation to contribute material to help expand the current database. Despite continuing to rely on the dated terminology of "plant protection" rather than contemporary idioms "crop protection and pest management," GPPIS is touted as a "learning system as well as a system for learning." It establishes a set of standard methods and protocols for data collection and sharing. The interactive, somewhat quirky multi-media GPPIS is described as a "snapshot of the working system as it existed" in its web format on 14 July 1998, containing some 1,500 donated color images. Additional graphic materials and information are being actively solicited to both expand the range of information as well as improve older elements. It is said to provide access to 450,000 literature references and identity data for 11,000 plants. The stand-alone application will run on both PCs (minimum: 486/66, CD drive, 16MB RAM, Win 95, SVGA) and Macintosh systems (minimum: Power PC/66, CD drive, 24MB RAM). Installing the CD loads a database engine and web server software necessary to enable a computer to emulate an Internet-based server, explain GPPIS co-architects C.A.J. Putter and M. Marsella. GPPIS is said to be compatible with a variety of Internet browsers. According to the instruction booklet's preface, GPPIS is dedicated to the former head of FAO's Plant Protection Service, L. Chiarappa, "who consistently pushed for IPM to include an 'H' and become Integrated Plant Health Management," the authors note. While FAO conceived and developed GPPIS, it is said to be "owned by many people," and open to participation by many more. FMI: Supervisor, GPPIS, AGPP, B-757, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00100, ITALY E-mail: tony.putter@fao.org Fax: 39-06-570-56347 Website: pppis.fao.org PUBLICATIONS AUTHORS, EDITORS, AND PUBLISHERS IPMnet NEWS wants to mention any publication, or CD, related to, or focused on, IPM. To assure coverage, please send a review copy of the publication, with background information where to obtain copies, data about the author/editor(s), and any other particulars or descriptive materials to:
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WEED MANAGEMENT LINKED TO SOIL Focusing on weed management that emphasizes integration of techniques to anticipate and manage these problem plants such as prevention and reduction of weed emergence rather than reacting after they appear, INTEGRATED WEED AND SOIL MANAGEMENT offers an enlightened, highly constructive viewpoint. Editors J.L. Hatfield, et al drew on material delivered by an array of experts during a workshop to explore the obvious link between soil and weeds and the important relationships therein that can be exploited to arrive at greater sustainability, and less bombastic, but more effective, management. The 385+ pages of this 1998, hardbound work cover a variety of concepts that, taken together, point toward the "next generation of weed management systems." The only very minor cavil lies with the text's all-North American locus. CRC Press, 2000 NW Corporate Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33431-9868, USA E-mail: VCash@crcpress.com Fax: 1-561-998-9114 Phone: 1-561-994-0555 Website: www.crcpress.com. PEST MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK Loaded with factual information and suggestions for a variety of useful forms, the 1999 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL PEST MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK is a valuable information resource far beyond what it's single U.S. state title might imply. The softbound compendium's 346 attractively presented pages contain data sets and pragmatic crop protection suggestions ranging across a spectrum of crops and pests, all based on information provided by a diverse group of specialists. The very reasonably priced work represents an unusual bargain. FMI: ACES Information, T&C Services, 1917 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA E-mail: acespubs@uiuc.edu Fax: 1-217-333-3917 Phone: 1-800-345-6097. COVER CROP COMPENDIUM Increasingly, growers find that if moisture conditions permit, growing a cover crop offers multiple benefits, not the least of which may be weed, insect, and disease deterrence. But questions about which cover crop to grow and how to manage it successfully often sidetrack intentions. To the rescue (for augmenting that fescue) comes MANAGING COVER CROPS PROFITABLY in a revamped and expanded second edition. While focused on U.S. conditions, the 212-page, 1998 work offers a broadly useful series of informative charts comparing the pros and cons of 18 species when used as cover crops. The no-nonsense, softbound work includes numerous contacts, experts, and references to tap for additional information and assistance. FMI: SAN Publications, Hills Bldg., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0082, USA E-mail: nesare@zoo.uvm.edu Fax: 1-802-656-4656. Publication & CD Notes An extension project in the USA has developed a useful form for scouting white mold; the informative overall approach and format, however, have potential to be adapted to a much wider range of pests. The 3-sheet form provides crop background information, field data, and an easily used scoring system leading to action recommendations. FMI: D. McGrath, c/o IPPC, 2040 Cordley Hall, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331, USA E-mail: daniel.mcgrath@orst.edu Fax: 1-503-585-4940 Phone: 1-503-931-8307. For 1999 the well established journal BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH has
added "Critiques," a new section devoted to occasional articles of a critical and focused nature. These, the publisher says, "will not be exhaustive reviews of the literature, but will stimulate discussion and thought on the issues raised." A free descriptive brochure is available. FMI: CABI Publishing, Attn: E. Boyes, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK E-mail: e.boyes@cabi.org Fax: 44-0-1491-829292 Phone: 44-0-1491-832111 Website: pest.cabweb.org. An insect sweep net may seem a very straight-forward tool to use, but getting optimum results with one may not be quite so obvious. To that end, an IPM Product Tip Sheet (#5), HOW TO USE INSECT SWEEP NETS, offers both useful background and "dos and don'ts." Free from: Gempler's IPM Group, PO box 270, Belleville, WI 53508, USA E-mail: ipm@gemplersmail.com Fax: 1-800-551-1128 Phone: 1-800-382-8473 Website: www.ipmalmanac.com. From mating disruption to strategies for halting insect invasions, the March issue (vol. 50, no. 6) of GOOD FRUIT bears a banquet of pest management related information. While those involved with western U.S. fruit orchard comprise the editorial target group, the broad selection of informative articles has wider interest such as: predicting insect population; fireblight management tactics; using sterile insect techniques; and getting started with a mating disruption program. FMI: GOOD FRUIT, 105 S. 18th St., Suite 217, Yakima, WA 98901-2149, USA E-mail: growing@goodfruit.com Fax: 1-509-453-4880 Phone: 1-509-575-2315 Website: www.goodfruit.com. NEMAPIX, volume 1, contains more than 1,000 images related to nematology and is available on a hybrid format CD ROM that can be read by both PC and Macintosh computers. The images can be freely used for educational projects provided that the original author is acknowledged. These images, which can enhance teaching nematology, also can be used for extension publications. FMI: J.D. Eisenback, Dept. PPWS, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA E-mail: jon@mail.vt.edu Phone: 1-540-231-4650. OTHER RESOURCES SCALE INSECTS INFORMATION A leading international authority on scale insects (Coccoidea) has developed "ScaleNet," an extensive website that offers comprehensive information about the insects' biology, classification, naming history, distribution, plant hosts, economic importance, and management techniques as well as links to relevant scientific literature. In collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Canada, D.R. Miller of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture designed ScaleNet to make scale insect information widely scattered and tedious to locate in thousands of scientific publications readily accessible to growers, scientists, and homeowners at the website: www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/scalenet.htm. Scale insects damage food, ornamental, fiber, and greenhouse crops causing serious economic losses each year. ScaleNet was conceived as an information tool to expedite identification, management, and prevention of problems related to scale insects. FMI: D.R. Miller, ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA E-mail: dmiller@sel.barc.usda.gov Fax: 1-301-786-9422 Phone: 1-301-504-5895. POTATO INFORMATION An extensive new website offers a variety and broad scope of potato information ranging from its periodic newsletter, GLOBAL POTATO NEWS, to specific information concerning pest management, events, and other potato-related links. FMI: e-mail info@potatonews.com Website: www.potatonews.com. EQUIPMENT & MATERIALS FORD
HELPS FOIL FRUIT FIENDS In a twist on the long abandoned advert, "Is there a Ford in your future?," orchardists may soon find that there is a Ford in their foliage when an intriguing new device using an off-the-shelf Ford Motor Co. fuel injector nozzle to spray pheromones becomes available commercially. The Microsprayer, a device for controlled release of insect sex pheromones for insect mating disruption in orchards and eventually other economically important crops, has shown promise in early trials, according to scientists at Michigan State Univ., in the USA, where it was designed. In contrast to current pheromone release systems, the Microsprayer is said to be more durable, capable of releasing a mixture of pheromones instead of a single substance, and designed for reuse from year to year. A Microsprayer unit comprises a nozzle assembly and a 9-volt battery-powered system that emits a burst of pheromone every 3 minutes (or as programmed), 24 hours per day, for an entire growing season. Units, weighing approximately 1 kg (2.3 lb), are placed in the upper third of the tree canopy, either hung from branches or at the upper end of poles, at a frequency of three per ha (two per ac). The pheromone material, which is tailored for either a single insect or more than one target species, is held in a replaceable attached canister, and protected against deterioration by oxygen and light. FMI: R. Isaacs, Center for Integrated Plant Systems, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Phone: 1-517-355-6619 E-mail: isaacsr@pilot.msu.edu. INSECT SPECIMENS A U.S. firm, Combined Scientific (CS), offers preserved or dried specimens of over 8,000 species of insects and related fauna with each item individually packaged, along with data on where and when collected. All items are unconditionally guaranteed. CS recently issued its latest catalog, "Insects, Economic & Non-economic, Foreign & Domestic," (#18, 196 pages, softbound) arranged by order, with numerous illustrations. FMI: CS, PO Box 1446, Ft. Davis, TX 79734, USA E-mail: insects@overland.net Fax: 1-915-426-3328 Phone: 1-915-426-3851 Website: www.overland.net/~insects . back to top IPM RESEARCH/TECHNICAL PAPERS --- categories and topics related to IPM III. RESEARCH/TECHNICAL PAPERS research/technical topics related to IPM. IPMnet NEWS will gladly provide the postal address for any first author mentioned in the listed titles that follow. Please direct requests for this information via e-mail to: IPMnetNUZ@bcc.orst.edu. This Month's FEATURED PAPER Nearly three decades since the term "integrated pest management" (IPM) first appeared in print, the approach has become the paradigm of choice for attempting to moderate the impact of pests on crops, amenity plants, and public settings. In their broad overview, "Integrated Pest Management: A Global Reality?," scientists M. Kogan and W.I. Bajwa observe that despite IPM's conceptual acceptance, its practical application remains restricted. Within that context, this paper surveys both the status of, and static surrounding, IPM and the potential for its broad universal implementation. excerpted from: ANNL. SOC. ENTOMO. BRASIL, 28(1), 1-26, March 1999. This Month's SELECTED TILES (broadly grouped by pest or tactic categories).
General "A Systems Approach to Understanding Obstacles to Effective Implementation of IPM in Thailand: Key Issues for the Cotton Industry," Castella, J.C., et al. AGRIC., ECOSYS. & ENVIRON., 72(1), 17-34, January 1999. "Pesticide Resistance: Assessment of Risk and the Development and Implementation of Effective Management Strategies," Jutsum, A.R., et al. PESTICIDE SCI., 54(4), 435-446, 1998. Biocontrol "Biological Control of Water Hyacinth Under Conditions of Maintenance Management: Can Herbicides and Insects be Integrated?" Center, T.D., et al. ENVIRON. MGMT., 23(2), 241-256, February 1999. "Entomopathogenic Nematodes for Control of Codling Moth, Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): Effect of Nematode Species, Concentration, Temperature, and Humidity," Lacey, L.A., and T.R. Unruh. BIOL. CONT., 13(3), 190- , November 1998. "Promising Results from the First Biological Control Programme Against a Solanaceous Weed (Solanum elaeagnifolium)," Hoffman, J.H., et al. AGRIC., ECOSYST., & ENVIRON., 70(2-3), 145-150, October 1998. "Why Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) Egg Parasitoids of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Fail on Chickpea," Romeis, J., et al. BULL. OF ENTOM. RESCH., 89(1), 89-96, February 1999. Phytopathology "Evaluation of Commercial Products for Microbial Control of Soil-borne Plant Diseases," Koch, E. CROP PROT., 18(2), 119-125, March 1999. "Integrated Management Practices for the Control of Maize Grey Leaf Spot," Ward, J.M.J., and D.C. Nowell. IPM REV., 3(3), 177-188, September 1998. Weed Management "Reduced Input of Herbicides by Use of Optoelectronic Sensors," Biller, R.H. JRNL. OF AGRIC. ENGRG. RESCH., 71(4), 357-362, December 1998. "The Effect of Seed Dormancy on Percentage and Rate of Germination in Polygonum persicaria, and its Relevance for Crop-weed Interaction," Vleeshouwers, L.M. ANN. OF APPL. BIOL., 132(1), 289-300, February 1998. Entomology "Does Grasshopper Control Create Grasshopper Problems? - Monitoring Side-effects of Fenitrothion Applications in the Western Sahel," van der Valk, H., et al. CROP PROT., 18(2), 83-89, March 1999. "Integrated Management of Cotton Insect Pests in India," Sundaramurthy, V.T., and R.T. Gahukar. OUTLK. ON AGRIC., 67(4), 261- , December 1998. "Occurrence of Phytophagous Insects on Wild Vigna sp. and Cultivated Cowpea: Comparing the
Relative Importance of Host-plant Resistance and Millet Intercropping," Bottenberg, H., et al. AGRIC., ECOSYST., & ENVIRON., 70(2-3), 217-230, October 1998. "The Effect of Exclusion Fences on the Colonization of Rutabagas by Cabbage Flies (Diptera: Anthomylidae)," Vernon, R.S., and J.R. Mackenzie. CAN. ENTOMO., 130(2), 153-162, March-April 1998. Nematology "Effect of Mulches on Persistence of Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Steinernema spp.) and Infection of Strobilomyia neanthracina (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in Field Trials," Sweeney, J., et al. JRNL. OF ECON. ENTOM., 91(6), 1320-1330, December 1998. "Influence of Reduced Agrochemical Inputs on Plant-parasitic Nematodes," Boag, B., et al. ANN. OF APPL. BIOL., 133(1), 81-90, August 1998. Vertebrate Management "Planning for Bird Pest Problem Resolution: A Case Study," Bruggers, R.L., et al. INTL. BIODETER. & BIODEGRAD., 42(2-3), 173-190, September-October 1998. back to top U.S. REGIONAL IPM CENTERS AND THE IPM-CRSP --- news, developments back to top U.S. AID's IPM-Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) back to top IPMNET CALENDAR --- recent additions and revisions to a comprehensive global IV. CALENDAR a global listng of forthcoming IPM-related events (conferences, training courses, symposia, etc.) Information was collected from, and supplied by, various sources; IPMnet expresses appreciation to all. NOTE: this issue of the NEWS contains both Calendar 1, (events new to the Calendar, or listing revised information) and Calendar 2 (All Previously Listed Events). Additional information can be found at the website: www.IPMnet.org. New and Revised listings Previously Listed events See also AgNIC's Agricultural Conferences, Meetings, Seminars Calendar
IPMnet Calendar 1. NEW=(N), or REVISED=(R) entries (only)
In 1999 (N) 25-29 July 4TH INTERNATIONAL CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE OF ENTOMOLOGY,
San Juan, PUERTO RICO. Contact: L.G. Peterson, Dow AgroSciences, 1853 Capital Circle NE, Tallahassee, FL 32308, USA E-mail: lgpeterson@dowagro.com Fax: 1-850-877-7255 Phone: 1-850-877-6855 (N) 22-27 August SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY, 32ND ANNUAL MEETING, Irvine, CA, USA. Contact: B. Federici, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA E-mail: brian.federici@ucr.edu Fax: 1-909-787-3086 Phone: 1-909-787-5006 (N) 1-4 November ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON METHYL BROMIDE ALTERNATIVES AND EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, San Diego, CA, USA. Contact: MBAO, 144 W. Peace River Dr., Fresno, CA 93711-6953, USA E-mail: gobenauf@agrc.cnchost.com Fax: 1-559-436-0692 In 2000 0 In 2001 0
IPMnet Calendar 2 PREVIOUSLY LISTED entries for 1999, 2000 and 2001 Current as of May 1999
1999 4 May 51ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CROP PROTECTION, Gent, BELGIUM. Contact: P. De Clercq, Dept. of Crop Protection, Univ. of Gent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM E-mail: Patrick.DeClercq@rug.ac.be Fax: 32-0-9-264-6239 Website: allserv.rug.ac.be/~hvanbost/symposium/index.html 19-21 May WORLD NEEM CONFERENCE (and Tradeshow), Vancouver, CANADA. Contact: M.B. Isman, Dept. of Plant Science, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, CANADA E-mail: isman@unixg.ubc.ca Fax: 1-604-822-8640 23-26 May 34TH CONGRESS OF THE MEXICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Aguascalientes, Ags., MEXICO. Contact: J. Padilla-Ramirez, ENEP-Iztacala, Laboratorio de Zoologia, Av. de los Barrios S.N., Los Reyes Iztacala, 54090 Tlalnepantla, Edo. de Mexico, MEXICO E-mail: jorgepr@servidor.unam.mx Fax/Phone: 52-5-623-1212 Website: www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/7352/ 21-22 June INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF PESTICIDES IN SOILS, GROUND- AND SURFACE WATER, Darmstadt, GERMANY. Contact: P. Backhoff, Die Akademie Fresenius GmbH, Hauert 9, 44227 Dortmund, GERMANY Fax: 49-0-231-758-9670 E-mail: akademie-fresenius@t-online.de Website: www.uaf.de
28 June-1 July 11TH EUROPEAN WEED RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM, Basel, SWITZERLAND. Contact: EWRS Symposium 1999, c/o FAW, CH-8820, Waedenswil, SWITZERLAND Fax: 41-62-868-6341 E-mail: Daniel.Gut@wae.faw.admin.ch Phone: 41-1-763-6111 Website: www.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/ewrs/ewrs_symp.html 5-9 July 10TH BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WEEDS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, Bozeman, MT, USA. Contact: N.R. Spencer, USDA/ARS, 1500 North Central, Sidney, MT 59270, USA Fax: 1-406-482-5038 E-mail: nspencer@sidney.ars.usda.gov Phone: 1-406-482-9407 Website: www.symposium.ars.usda.gov/ 6-10 July SOCIETY OF NEMATOLOGISTS-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGISTS JOINT MEETING, Monterey, CA, USA. Contact: H. Ferris, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA E-mail: hferris@ucdavis.edu Fax: 1-916-752-5809 Phone: 1-916-752-8432 19-23 July INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, Ouagadougou, BURKINA FASO. Combined: 1st Meeting of the Entomological Society of Burkina Faso, and 13th Meeting of the African Association of Insect Scientists. Contact: D. Traore, Station de Farako-ba, 01 BP 910 Bobo-Dioulasso 01, BURKINA FASO E-mail: dtraore@fasonet.bf Fax: 226-97-09-60 25-30 July 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PLANT PROTECTION, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. Theme: "Plant Protection Towards the Third Millennium - Where Chemistry Meets Ecology." Contact: IPPC Secretariat, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, ISRAEL E-mail: ippc@kenes.com Fax: 972-3-514-0077 Phone: 972-3-514-0014 Website: www.kenes.com/IPPC 25 July-6 August 5TH ANNUAL IPM SHORT COURSE, East Lansing, MI, USA. Course follows "train the trainers" approach to team building, knowledge sharing and participatory learning, and provides "hands-on" experiences in various components of IPM. Contact: K.M. Maredia, Inst. of International Agric., 416 Plant and Soil Sciences Building, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA E-mail: kmaredia@pilot.msu.edu Fax: 1-517-432-1982 Phone: 1-517-353-5262 6-12 August JOINT MEETING OF THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, Montreal, CANADA. Contact: APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA. E-mail: aps@scisoc.org Fax: 1-612-454-0766 Phone: 1-612-454-7250 7-11 August AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY-CANADIAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY JOINT MEETING, Montreal, CANADA. Contact: F. Labatt, APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA E-mail: flabatt@scisoc.org Fax: 1-612-454-0766 Website: www.scisoc.org 9-13 August 2ND WORLD CONGRESS ON ALLELOPATHY, "Critical Analysis and Future Prospects," Thunder Bay, ONT, CANADA. Contact: A. Malik, Lakehead Univ., Thunder Bay,
ONT P7B 5E1, CANADA. 10-12 August 52ND NZ PLANT PROTECTION CONFERENCE, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. Contact: A. Rahman, Ruakura Agric. Research Centre, PB 3123, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND Fax: 64-07-838-5073 E-mail: rahmana@agresearch.cri.nz Phone: 64-07-838-5280 16 August-8 October INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT COURSE IN RICE, College, Laguna, PHILIPPINES. Contact: The Director, National Crop Protection Center, Univ. of the Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna 4031, PHILIPPINES E-Mail: ncpc@laguna.net Fax: 63-049-536-2409 25-28 August SHADE TREE WILT DISEASES NATIONAL CONFERENCE, St. Paul, MN, USA. Contact: C.L. Ash, American Phytopathological Society, 3340 Pilot Knob Rd., St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA E-mail: cash@scisoc.org Fax: 1-651-454-0766 Phone: 1-651-454-7250 Website: www.scisoc.org 29-30 August NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OPTIMAL USE OF INSECTICIDAL NEMATODES IN PEST MANAGEMENT, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Contact: S. Polavarapu, Rutgers Center, Chatsworth, NJ 08019, USA E-mail: polavarapu@aesop.rutgers.edu Phone: 1-609-726-1590 29 August-3 September VII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JUVENILE HORMONES, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. Contact: S.W. Applebaum, e-mail: jhvii@indycc1.agri.huji.ac.il Website: www.agri.huji.ac.il/~jhvii 30 August-24 September BIOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT SHORT COURSE, Egham and Ascot, UK. Contact: S. Groundwater, CABI Bioscience UK Centre (Egham), Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY, UK E-mail: S.Groundwater@CABI.org Fax: 44-0-1491-829100 Phone: 44-0-1784-470111 12-16 September 12TH AUSTRALIAN WEEDS CONFERENCE, Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. Contact: Conference Design, PO Box 342, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006, AUSTRALIA Fax: 61-03-6224-3774 E-mail: mail@cdesign.com.au 13-16 October 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ECOLOGY OF INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS, La Maddalena, Sardinia, ITALY. Contact: G. Brundu, Dipartimento di Botanica ed Ecologia Vegetale, Univ. di Sassari, Via F. Muroni 25, 07100 Sassari, ITALY E-mail: gbrundu@box1.tin.it Fax: 39-079-233600 Phone: 39-079-228611 17-20 October EVALUATING INDIRECT ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, IOBC Symposium, Montpellier, FRANCE. Contact: M. Montes de Oca, IOBC Symposium, Ave. Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, Cedex 5, FRANCE E-mail: iobc.symp@agropolis.fr Fax: 33-4-6704-7599 Phone: 33-4-6704-7530 Website: www.agropolis.fr/iobc/
25-29 October SPRAY OILS BEYOND 2000: SUSTAINABLE PEST & DISEASE MANAGEMENT, Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Contact: A. Frost, Hawkesbury Technologies, UWS Hawkesbury, PO box 415, Richmond, NSW 2753, AUSTRALIA E-mail: a.frost@uws.edu.au Fax: 61-02-4570-1520 Website: www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/events/sprayoils Phone: 61-02-4570-1690 15-18 November BRIGHTON CROP PROTECTION CONFERENCE 1999, WEEDS, Brighton, UK. Contact: The Event Organization, 8 Cotswold Mews, Battersea Square, London SWll 3RA, UK E-mail: eventorg@event-org.com Fax: 44-171-924-1790 Phone: 44-171-228-8034 Website: www.BCPC.org 22-27 November 17TH ASIAN-PACIFIC WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY CONFERENCE, "Weeds and Environmental Impact," Bangkok, THAILAND. Contact: S. Chinawong, Dept. of Agronomy, Kasetsart Univ., Chatuchak, Bangkok 10903, THAILAND E-mail: agrsbc@nontri.ku.ac.th Website: aggie.kps.ku.ac.th/APWSS/index.html 7-9 December 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PESTS IN AGRICULTURE, Montpellier, FRANCE. Contact: Association Nationale de Protection des Plantes (ANPP), 6, Blvd. de la Bastile, F-75012 Paris, FRANCE E-mail: anpp@anpp.asso.fr Fax: 33-1-43-44-2919 Phone: 33-1-43-44-8964 Website: www.anpp.asso.fr 12-16 December ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL MEETING, Atlanta, GA, USA. Contact: Z.B. Mayo, Dept. of Entomology, 202 Plant Industry Bldg., PO Box 830816, Lincoln, NE 68583-0816, USA E-mail: zmayo1@unl.edu Fax: 1-402-472-4687 Phone: 1-402-472-8703 2000 5-10 February WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL MEETING, Toronto, CANADA. Contact: WSSA, J. Breithaupt, PO Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA Fax: 1-913-843-1274 E-mail: jbreith@allenpress.com - - Phone: 1-913-843-1235 3-6 June XXII BRAZILIAN WEED SCIENCE CONGRESS, Iguassu Falls, PR, BRAZIL. Contact: B.N. Rodrigues; e-mail sbcpd@cnpso.embrapa.br 6-11 June III INTERNATIONAL WEED SCIENCE CONGRESS, Iguassu Falls, PR, BRAZIL. Contact: J.B. Silva; e-mail sbcpd@cnpso.embrapa.br Web Site: www.foztur.com.br/iwsc 12-16 August AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY-MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOINT MEETING, New Orleans, LA, USA. Contact: APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA E-mail: aps@scisoc.org Fax: 1-612-454-0766 Website: www.scisoc.org 20-26 August 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY, Iguassu Falls, PR, BRAZIL. Contact: D.L. Gazzoni; e-mail gazzoni@cnpso.embrapa.br Web site: www.embrapa.br/ice Winter (2000) SHORTCOURSE: PEST MANAGEMENT FOR EVERGREEN TREES,
Madison, WI, USA. Contact: C.L. Ash, American Phytopathological Society,3340 Pilot Knob Rd., St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA E-mail: cash@scisoc.org Fax: 1-651-454-0766 Phone: 1-651-454-7250 Website: www.scisoc.org 2001 25-29 August AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETTING, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Contact: APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA E-mail: aps@scisoc.org Fax: 1-612-454-0766 Website: www.scisoc.org
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