Project reports

Latest Bloggers

Doris | SPOTTERON

10 posts

Design and communication at SPOTTERON

https://www.spotteron.net/about/team

Sylvain Poggi (INRAE)

4 posts

Quantitative ecologist and data scientist at th...

https://eng-igepp.rennes.hub.inrae.fr/personnel/p/poggi-sylvain

Sara Boschi (Unisi)

1 post

Sara Boschi (Unisi) has not set their biography yet

Agostino Strangi (CREA - DC)

4 posts

Agostino Strangi (CREA - DC) has not set their biography yet

Leyli Borner (INRAE)

3 posts

From Twitter

14 December 2024

A hitchhiker's guide to Europe: mapping human-mediated spread of the invasive Japanese beetle

Pest management

#IPMPopillia

Early detection of hitchhiking pests requires the identification of strategic entry points via transport. Our INRAE team has developed a framework for achieving this in continental Europe for the Japanese beetle. Human-mediated dispersal ha...

05 August 2024

Young minds got it right!

Pest management

#IPMPopillia

Pupils from class 2D had a good intuition! In fact, the Fungzuka device is being tested by CREA's researchers since summer 2023. The "Fungzuka" is an "Attract-Infest-Release" device that is conceived to bring adult Popillia japonica insects in c...

10 July 2024

Citizen Science Dissemination for Popillia japonica

Citizen Science

#IPMPopillia

Monitoring

In recent months, the IPM Popillia Consortium has collaborated with SPOTTERON to create informational and dissemination materials about the invasive Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), which has been spreading across Europe for several years. R...

Popillia grub detectives at work in Zurich

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Doris | SPOTTERON

Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia Monitoring

PopilliaJaponica_grub-detectives

Since 2023, the village of Kloten north of Zurich is not only famous for the Zurich Airport and for having a great ice hockey team, but also for harboring the first Popillia population in Europe north of the Alps. In summer and autumn of 2023, huge efforts were made to eradicate this population, including insecticide sprays, the erection of LLINs-t...

796 Hits

Tags:

spread progress Integrated Pest Management popillia update

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

796 Hits

Developmental Stage Photos of the Japanese Beetle from Our Laboratory

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Doris | SPOTTERON

Project reports #IPMPopillia

IPMPopillia_Header_stagelarvae_SPOTTERON

We are beyond excited to share developmental stage photos of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) directly from our laboratory experiment. The Japanese beetle undergoes three larval stages, which means that the larvae do not grow steadily but develop three times until they pupate and finally emerge as adult beetles. We ...

1700 Hits

Tags:

biocontrol progress Integrated Pest Management

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1700 Hits

General Assembly and ECE in Heraklion 2023

Monday, 30 October 2023

Doris | SPOTTERON

Other Project reports #IPMPopillia

group picture of the attendees

From October 18–20, 2023, members of the IPM Popillia consortium came together in Heraklion, Greece, for the yearly General Assembly of the IPM Popillia project. The event provided the possibility of gaining insight into and learning about the progress and developments made in the different interdisciplinary work packages of the project. At the sam...

1382 Hits

Tags:

progress GeneralAssembly Citizen Science Integrated Pest Management popillia update

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1382 Hits

Visualizing insights in our science communication: infographics for Citizen Scientists

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Doris | SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Project reports #IPMPopillia

Life Cycle P.Japonica

For some time now, we have opened up our Popillia Japonica research to Citizen Science. With the support of volunteer Citizen Scientists, we are trying to gather more information about the distribution of the Japanese beetle through the IPM Popillia's Citizen Science App. Invasive species such as the Japanese Beetle pose a severe threat to biodiver...

1426 Hits

Tags:

design Citizen Science popillia update

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1426 Hits

New insights in Popillia japonica life

Friday, 30 June 2023

Agostino Strangi (CREA - DC)

Project reports

New insights in Popillia japonica life

In the past months many field trials and lab experiments gave their results, and they are good results! In our lab, we found that a family of molecules called "saponins", that are naturally present in alfalfa plants, have a significant antifeedant and insecticidal effects on Popillia. Basing on this molecules, it will be possible to devel...

1449 Hits

Tags:

popillia update entomopathogenic fungi phylogeography saponins LLINS

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1449 Hits

Popillia japonica documentary on SRF Wissen

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Doris | SPOTTERON

Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia

Popilla japonica contribution on SRF Wissen

After the Azores and Italy, the Popillia japonica beetle is already present in Switzerland. SRF Wissen has recently published a documentary about invasive species in Europe, that vividly shows how important research and methods are when it comes to tackle the problem. Agroscope, coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project IPM Popillia, is rep...

1030 Hits

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1030 Hits

The Big Field Experiment

Monday, 14 November 2022

Fionna

Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia

Working in the field with the Swiss Alps in the background

In September 2021 we started the big field experiment in the Piedmont region, a highly infested zone. Giovanni Bosio from the plant health service of the Piedmont region found meadows which were not treated yet and with willing owners to let us do experiments with different biological control agents (BCA). We treated the meadows with 2 different st...

1484 Hits

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1484 Hits

Effects of test treatments on P. japonica gene expression

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Sara Boschi (Unisi)

Other Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia

In collaboration with colleagues from CREA (Florence), we have treated popillias with three experimental control protocols that appear as promising candidates in their hands. Treated popillias have been snap frozen for molecular analysis. In the next months we will evaluate the effects of different treatments in terms of gene expression. With these...

1792 Hits

Tags:

progress Integrated Pest Management #treatments molecular analysis gene expression

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1792 Hits

Another Day in the Field

Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Fionna

Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia

Vercelli - Football field

We need more larvae, a lot more larvae! That's our mission, our first in this year. This time we were headed to a field in Vercelli, Piedmont. While driving, the bus would shake and make weird noises when applying the brakes which is why we stopped a first time to inspect our tires and a second time at a mechanics to let him check properly. W...

1599 Hits

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1599 Hits

The Horizon 2020 Citizen Science App for Popillia sightings is released!

Friday, 18 February 2022

Philipp | SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Project reports

Citizen Science App for recording invasive species

A deliverable is done. We just have released the first version of the IPM Popillia Citizen Science App! This first release marks a significant achievement; from now on, our consortium members and farmers on location can start recording Popillia japonica sightings on their smartphones and contribute to the IPM Popillia data-set. The App running...

1899 Hits

Tags:

App Citizen Science

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1899 Hits

First prototype version of the IPM Popilla Citizen Science App in the making!

Friday, 28 January 2022

Philipp | SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Project reports

Design process of IPM Popilla Citizen Science App

The year 2022 has just begun. Right after the holiday season, we at SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform have started the first phase of direct production and creating the definitions for the IPM Popilla Citizen Science Smartphone App - what a start for a year! In the past, we have already prepared many building blocks and parts to launch our fi...

1958 Hits

Tags:

App progress Citizen Science

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1958 Hits

A day in the field

Wednesday, 08 December 2021

Fionna

Other Project reports #IPMPopillia

Picture by Mathias Hess

To continue with experiments in the lab, we needed more Japanese beetle larvae, a lot more. So we decided to go on a field trip on the 7th of December 2021. It was the first train of the day which took me to Agroscope where we headed off to Mottalciata, Piedmont region. With two cars and seven people, we left freezing cold Switzerland in hop...

1486 Hits

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1486 Hits

Planning for the IPM Popillia Citizen Science App

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Philipp | SPOTTERON

Citizen Science Project reports

Preview Mockup of a IPM Popillia Citizen Science App

With the new year approaching, we at SPOTTERON have started planning and creating concepts for the IPM Popillia Citizen Science App for public participation. In this early stage, options are present for either having a focussed App for discovering the Popillia japonica beetle in already infested regions or to think on a broader scale for ...

1567 Hits

Tags:

App Citizen Science

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit

1567 Hits

What would a Japanese beetle spread cost us?

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Franziska Straubinger (TUM)

Project reports

What would a Japanese beetle spread cost us? - That is one of the questions which our team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is trying to answer. The question is simple; however, the answer is complex, depending on several unknown factors such as the potential damage the beetle can cause to different crops. For this reason, we have...