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14 December 2024

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

Pest management

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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

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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

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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...

New insights in Popillia japonica life

Friday, 30 June 2023

Agostino Strangi (CREA - DC)

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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...

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