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International Pest Control – September/October 2013 – Vol.55, Nr.5

| September 30, 2013
International Pest Control September/October 2013 cover

Cover picture – A scientist examines an alga culture in the controlled environment of the Rotam CropSciences’ Ecotoxicology laboratory, based in Shanghai.

Whichever your pest interest, we have a diverse and broad range of subjects in this issue. Scorpions are not often covered in pest control papers and whilst not a global pest you may encounter these if you travel abroad. Our Technical Consultant Clive Boase provides an insight.

In agriculture, rusts diseases make a very significant contribution to crop loss on a wide range of crops globally. Our Technical Consultant, Martin Redbond provides a review. Post harvest losses of materials in storage can be a considerable contributor to loss of harvest value for foodstuffs. We look at how Australia currently copes with grain storage to minimise pest outbreaks. We also examine Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer. The insect is the most destructive pest of brinjal or aubergine, a popular vegetable grown throughout the entire tropical and subtropical regions of the world. We review how a novel biocontrol agent can help reduce pest damage.

The UK project to reduce bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle is a subject that spans public health, animal health and vertebrate pest control with politics thrown in for good measure. We provide an overview of this serious disease and look at how the bacterial infection is being tackled in the UK and US.

Finally, in the northern hemisphere, autumn is a time of harvests and conferences. CropWorld, PestWorld and ABIM all take place in the coming months, as do several other important regional meetings and events such as the first Parasitec in Morocco and the 21st Pesttech. The IPC Technical Consultants and I will be out and about at these events, aiming to capture the news about recent important technical and commercial development with plans to report back our findings within these pages. Should you have information which you wish to share, please get in contact. We have again updated and extended our rolling calendar of pest control and pest management events. If you see a key meeting that is missing, drop me an email.

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David Loughlin, Editor International Pest Control magazine
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Contents of International Pest Control – September/October 2013
Volume 55 Number 5

International Pest News

  • Westward Ho! for chalara ash dieback
  • Jonathan Irwin Peck – Chairman and owner, Killgerm Group Limited
  • Exosect appoints Pest Trader, distributor for public health products in Europe
  • New collection scheme in Greece
  • Eurofins continues Asia Pacific build-up
  • IVCC awarded £12m to fight malaria
  • Our mission is your protection
  • Stewardship: the way forward for anticoagulant rodenticides in the UK
  • All change in the PelGar team
  • Bacillus and hookworm: A billion could benefit
  • Rothamsted scientists highlight resistance to pyrethroids in grain aphids
  • Herbicide resistance highlighted at American Chemical Society National event
  • CEPA have a busy summer
  • International news in brief

Company Profile

  • Rotam innovations in post patent technology

Focus on Public Health

  • Scorpions revisited / Clive Boase
  • Blogging for pest controllers / Micah Abraham

Focus on Agriculture

  • Grain storage – pest control options and storage systems on Australian farms 2013-2014  / Philip Burrill
  • Rusts – an ongoing threat to food security / Martin Redbond
  • Australia helps Brazil to fight insect plague
  • Almost 20% of grain in China lost or wasted from field to fork
  • Evaluation of Biomax M – A biorational pesticide in controlling Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer in Bangladesh / Dr Nayem Hassan, Mahi Immam Mollah, Dewan Shazzadul Haque
  • Pest-eating birds mean money for coffee growers, Stanford biologists find
  • Biocontrol moves to Basel
  • Where does the chemical industry gather in the 21st Century? / Rob Fryatt

Focus on Animal Health

  • Tuberculosis – between a Brock and a hard place  / D A Loughlin

Focus on Horticulture

  • Mixing sprays on-demand / Peter Brooke, Gillian Callaghan

Focus on Forestry

  • Not the same old chestnut / Dr Terry Mabbett

Calendar of International Events

 

 

Category: Issue Editorial & Contents

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