Papers are presented focusing on biological control agents and how they are regulated across the EPPO region, how their use can be facilitated and how they may contribute to slowing the spread of invasive pests and mitigating the damage they cause. Three papers deal with Dryocosmus kuriphilus, a...

Pentatomid stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) include several species that occur in pear orchards where they cause feeding damage with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, resulting in deformed fruits. In the Belgian fruit growing area they used to be secondary pests, but over the last decade they...

This paper presents the results of several trials conducted in 2009-14 in Italy to test different control strategies against the grapevine mealybug (Planococcus ficus), an introduced species in Trentino, which can cause direct damage (limiting production) and indirect (virus transmission) on the...

In 2014, a total of 108 symptomatic watermelon samples were collected in Greece and analysed by DAS-ELISA using polyclonal antisera against the most common aphid-transmitted viruses. Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) was detected in 8 of 108 plants tested. Five of these plants collected at Lesvos were...

PVY is distributed worldwide in potato growing areas, tobacco growing areas and outdoor crops of tomato and pepper in warm countries. The different strains of PVY develops different symptoms on different parts of the host plant species. The PVY have a host range of 495 species in 72 genera of 31...

Arthropods considered viral vectors are early pests in the tomato crop and have the ability to cause direct or indirect damage, especially when there are failures in their management. The aim of this work was to study the incidence and infestation of viral vectors in two systems of pest management...

Scaphoideus titanus Ball, the main vector of Flavescence dorée phytoplasma, was monitored in Slovakia during 2013 and 2014. The species was present in the vineyards of eastern Slovakia but it was rarely found in the south of central part of the country. It was also found at many locations of...

The western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) is an invasive thrips pest of tomatoes in the southeastern United States. This species causes crop loss to farmers by injuring fruits and vectoring Tomato spotted wilt virus. Previous attempts to control this species using calendar applications ...

Taxonomy: Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) is in the genus Tospovirus, family Bunyaviridae, with a single-stranded, tri-segmented RNA genome with an ambisense genome organization. Members of the other genera in the family infect predominantly vertebrates and insects. Geographical distribution: IYSV is ...

Cereal aphids, Sitobion avenae, have developed resistance to pyrethroids in the last few years, culminating in control failure at some locations in England 2011 and 2012, associated in the latter year with local epidemics of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV). Studies by Rothamsted Research and...