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International Pest Control – March/April 2021 – Vol 63, Nr.2
I will start this editorial with a request to our readers. Send us short articles on your research! We are always interested in publishing accessible summaries of published papers or completed practical field research. The guidelines are available on our website but put simply 1,200 to 2,400 words. Good quality, high resolution images, graphs and […]
International Pest Control – January/February 2021 – Vol 63, Nr.1
2021, whatever happened to 2020? A quick look at our events calendar suggests that this year will be another year of virtual events with few chances to get together until autumn at the earliest. This issue kicks off with a look at the highly rated CABI compendium of Invasive Species before moving on to consider […]
International Pest Control – November/December 2020 – Vol 62, Nr.6
The year of virtual conferences and seemingly endless Teams meetings ends with the prospect of new vaccines liberating us from the tyranny of the virus by summer 2021. Too late to save many of the conferences planned for 2021 which have already taken the prudent decision to defer to 2022. It will be another year […]
International Pest Control – September/October 2020 – Vol 62, Nr.5
It is great that we can continue to report on advances in pest control science around the world despite the impact of the current pandemic. It is to be hoped that as the months pass the pipeline of research does not dry up as labs cut back on staffing due to social distancing and travel […]
Company Profile…ZAPI: Protecting from environmental parasites since 1970
Pierpaolo Zambotto, Vice President and General Manager of Zapi recalls the history of Zapi, on the 50th anniversary of the foundation. “Zapi is a company owned by the Zambotto family and was founded in Padua in 1970 by Pietro Zambotto, currently President of the Company. Throughout the years, the commercial development and the investments turned […]
International Pest Control – July/August 2020 – Vol 62, Nr.4
Whenever an economic or health crisis hits the world it seems it is the poor who pay the heaviest price and so it is with Covid-19. Smallholders do not have deep pockets, large cash reserves and access to cheap loans and government support. But help for some is coming from what might seem an unlikely […]
International Pest Control – May/June 2020 – Vol 62, Nr3
In the middle of any crisis many people reach for a cup of tea. And while we were all locked down the FAO marked the first International Tea Day – virtually. Tea is a product used by millions and its production touches many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals including the fight against extreme poverty, […]
Company Profile…NEWPHARM® : responds to the coronavirus crisis
NEWPHARM®, a company specialising in developing solutions for the control of pests and pathogenic microorganisms, was founded in 1982, by Dr Dionisio Bagarollo. Since then the company’s growth has been rapid and forward-looking thanks to the input of Dr Bagarollo’s daughter Claudia and son Enrico. It has been forty years since NEWPHARM® first entered Italy’s […]
