New Release – The Pest Report | July 2025 – Issue 3
The latest issue of The Pest Report is now available, bringing essential insights for professionals across crop protection, agronomy, and pest management. This edition covers timely and high-impact topics affecting global agriculture: 🔬 Tuta absoluta Gain updated strategies and integrated approaches for managing the Tomato Leaf Miner—a persistent threat in tomato production. 🌿 Winter Moth […]
Outlooks on Pest Management – June 2025 Vol36:3 – Editorial
By no means all Doom and Gloom! Outlooks on Pest Management is widely known as a primary source of reliable and up to the minute information on a broad range of topics that are of interest and importance to pest management practitioners, industry and researchers around the world. This continues to be reflected in this […]
Impact of climate change on subterranean termite
Termite control is a major enterprise in most parts of the world, undertaken to protect structures and properties. Historically the interaction of termites and humans probably started when termites attacked crops and manmade structures containing cellulosic material. This interaction has now taken a shape resembling a confrontation, thanks to extensive land use by humans for […]
VERV programme – questions for the EPA
This is the second article in a two-part series regarding the intertwined problems of growing insecticide resistance and the lack of investment in novel public health use insecticides (Part I can be found in the November/December 2023 issue of IPC). A new US incentive programme aims to mitigate these problems. Reading the US Environmental Protection […]
Functional diversification of a wild potato
Globally, huge quantities of crop protection agents are sprayed to control potato late blight. To make potato farming more sustainable and less reliant on sprays, we need crops that are inherently resistant to such diseases. “There is a continuous ‘arms race’ between the potato plant and Phytophthora,” says Vivianne Vleeshouwers, a plant scientist at Wageningen […]
Tomatoes: Responding to the spread of ToBRFV
In recent years, the tomato industry has faced a major challenge from the spread of tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), and despite many phytosanitary measures, infection rates have continued to rise. New High Resistance varieties will change this in the short term, and Paul Grootscholten of Agro Care has been evaluating the high resistant […]
Ips typographus in the UK – an answer for every entry
The alien invasive spruce bark beetle Ips typographus continues to crop up in the UK with the latest discovery in Scotland and a first for that country. This is certainly the scariest identification so far given that the bulk of commercial forestry in Scotland is based on Sitka spruce. This latest finding of Ips typographus […]
International Pest Control – Hub
We’re proud to announce the official launch of Hub.International-Pest-Control.com — the global meeting point for professionals across Public Health, Agriculture, Horticulture & Amenity, Forestry & Plantation, and Animal Health sectors. This is more than just a website — it’s a community-driven platform built for pest management professionals worldwide. Whether you’re on the front lines, in […]
