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Popillia grub detectives at work in Zurich

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Doris | SPOTTERON

Pest management Project reports #IPMPopillia Monitoring

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...

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Updated interactive map of the Japanese beetle invasion in Continental Europe

Monday, 03 July 2023

Sylvain Poggi (INRAE)

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Here's our updated map illustrating the dynamics of the ongoing invasion of the Japanese beetle in Continental Europe. This current version (V3, June 2023) includes regions Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Valle Aosta (Italy), and Ticino (Switzerland) over the period 2015-2022. The map captures the dynamics of the invasion at the...

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What would a Japanese beetle spread cost us?

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Franziska Straubinger (TUM)

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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...