In recent years, in Bucharest and in other urban centres in our country began to be placed Platanus spp. trees. In the area of Bucharest, in the year 2014 was an extension of two dangerous Platanus' pests [The sycamore lace bug (Corythucha ciliata Say, 1832 - Hemiptera: Tingidae) and leaf-mining...

The EFSA Panel on Plant Health was requested by the European Commission to assess the risk to plant health in the European Union if the Australian bud-galling wasp Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae was released for the control of the invasive alien plant Acacia longifolia in Portugal. T....

Oriental chestnut gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) considered to be one of the most harmful pests of sweet chestnut varieties in the world has been recorded at the end of week of April 2014 for the first time in Turkey. It was observed in a few chestnut groves and ...

The European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) is an intergovernmental organization, which was created in 1951. It currently has 50 member countries and one of its missions is to prevent the entry and spread of pests presenting a risk to agriculture and forestry. Since the...

Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV) causes a serious yield limiting disease in all domesticated lupin species. Strains of BYMV that are seed-borne in L. luteus and L. albus and contaminate seed stocks, occur widely in Europe and North America, but are not established in Australia. In L. angustifolius,...