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Cover Image:<\/strong> American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)<\/em>.
Picture by<\/strong> Clemson University – USDA Cooperative Extension Slide Series bugwood.org<\/p><\/div>\n

We are a little late getting this issue out in part due to the intervention of Covid but all well now and hopefully we will catch up during the year. We kick off with measuring a crop\u2019s carbon footprint which seems timely following COP26. Arable agriculture has a role to play in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and Bayer\u2019s new tool will allow buyers to compare the footprint of crops before they buy.<\/p>\n

The IAEA has opened a new facility in Mexico close to its border with Guatemala to produce one billion sterilized fruit flies a week; an effort to protect the successful eradication in Mexico and eliminate the invasive pest from Guatemala as far south as Panama. Other news topics of interest include widening the hunt for novel chemistries at Bayer, a USDA lab opening up its pest identification system, castor bean farmers benefiting from a BASF 5-year programme and Microsoft getting involved in crop protection. And the good news is that chocolate is good for biodiversity!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve a report on the BCPC 2021 annual conference by our expert team of Prof Graham Matthews and Dr Robin Blake. This was an interesting conference tackling key issues around the future of crop protection in the UK with some aspects that no doubt apply worldwide. Parasitec 2021 also happened and we\u2019ve a short report. Pestworld 2021 kicked off in Las Vegas; a little harder for anyone outside the USA to get to! And back in the UK PestTech 2021 also returned \u2013 apparently with a bang!<\/p>\n

The corporate sector has seen lots of activity with news from a host of companies.<\/p>\n

In the Pests in the Food and Hospitality Sector section, Dr Zia Siddiqi looks at best practice, Alex Wade looks at the lifecycle of an infestation and Futura\u2019s Sebastian Junge considers how technology can play an increasingly important role in controlling unwanted guests.<\/p>\n

We jump to a paddy field and resident expert Dr Terry Mabbett has a quick look at the role of foliar zinc, fall armyworm gets raised to the status of \u201csuper-population\u201d (doesn\u2019t sound good) and maize is used to fight FAW on maize \u2013 amazing (sorry). In Kenya the focus is on using parasitoids to fight the pest.<\/p>\n

Having a nose for a pest problem takes on a new meaning with the advent of a USDA system to sniff out whitefly infestations. In Dortmund they are seeking new ways to impact on the nervous system of pests without impacting on other species. In the UK crops are under threat from a fungus that causes Phoma on oilseed rape and brassica. It seems in every issue we report on a new threat!<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the discovery of tree disease Phytophthora pluvialis in the UK, at first in Cornwall (as we reported in our last issue) but now throughout the western side of the UK. Our in-house specialist Dr Terry Mabbett considers how much a threat this disease could be to the UK\u2019s commercial forestry and whether more species will be eliminated for the commercial forestry portfolio. We also take a look at the impact of tree loss, often due to introduced species, on biodiversity and consider research on the biodiversity of the fungus causing olive tree anthracnose. The forestry section concludes with a look at a technique for targeting systemic herbicide delivery into invasive weeds using a pellet \u201cinjection\u201d process.<\/p>\n

Finally we conclude as we started on the subject of climate change and the possibility of using seaweed to reduce the GHG emissions of livestock. This issue also benefits from having the index to 2021 issues.<\/p>\n

We are always ready to accept articles for our regular sections or special topics so if you have some interesting research to report please do send in a short summary and we\u2019ll be in touch.<\/p>\n

Chris Endacott<\/strong>, Editor International Pest Control magazine
\nEmail Chris on editor@international-pest-control.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Contents International Pest Control January\/February 2022
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