PRESENTATIONS : Joint International Symposium on management of Tuta absoluta Agadir, Morocco, 2011-11-16/18

EPPO/IOBC/FAO/NEPPO Joint International Symposium
on management of Tuta absoluta

Agadir, Morocco, 2011-11-16/18

PRESENTATIONS

Session 1: distribution, bio-ecology and damage of Tuta absoluta

Giovanna Tropea Garzia (Italy) Biology, distribution and damage of Tuta absoluta, an exotic invasive pest from South America 
Hassina Benmessaoud-Boukhalfa (Algeria) Distribution spatiotemporelle de Tuta absoluta sous serre de tomates sur le littoral algérois 
Ray Cannon (UK) Population development of Tuta absoluta in UK glasshouses 
Raul Guedes (FAO consultant, Brazil) Tuta absoluta in South America: pest status, management & insecticide resistance

Session 2: Current status of the tomato borer in EPPO/NEPPO countries

Fatiha Benddine IPM Strategy: A case of Tuta absoluta in Algeria 
Sobhy Temerak The status of Tuta absoluta in Egypt
Yannie Trottin-Caudal The current status of Tuta absoluta in France 
Emmanouil Roditakis & Nicos Seraphides The current status of Tuta absoluta in  Greece and Cyprus 
Valiollah Baniameri & Ahmad Cheraghian   First report of Tuta absoluta in Iran and initial control strategies 
Stephano Speranza & L. Sannino The current status of Tuta absoluta in Italy 
Liora Shaltiel Harpaz The current status of Tuta absoluta in Israel 
Khadija Ouardi La stratégie nationale de lutte contre Tuta absoluta in Maroc
Rosa Gabarra The current status of Tuta absoluta in Spain 
Bouzid Nasraoui Tuta absoluta in Tunisia: three years later?
Sakine Ugurlu The current status of Tuta absoluta in Turkey and toxicity of some insecticides
Kevin Gorman Incidence of tomato borer, Tuta absoluta, in the UK

Session 3: Control strategies: chemical control and mating disruption

Sybille Lamprecht (IRAC) Global introduction to the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee
Emmanouil Roditakis (Greece) Determination of baseline toxicity of insecticides to Tuta absoluta 
Khalid Haddi (UK) Mutations in the para-type sodium channel gene confer resistance to pyrethroids in Tuta absoluta 
Giancarlo Chiot (Italy) First results from South Europe for Tuta absoluta control using diflubenzuron with adjuvant and with/without Bt kurstaki 
Eitán Martín (Spain) Influence of Thunder® treatments on Tuta absoluta development 
Mounir Hassani (Switzerland) AA L&K: New alternative to control the population of Tuta absoluta 
Arturo Cocco (Italy) Evaluation of the mating disruption method against Tuta absoluta in greenhouse tomato crops in Sardinia 
Paolo Sambado (Spain) Early studies on the control of Tuta absoluta with mating disruption technique in Murcia region

Session 4: Control strategies: biological control

Rosa Gabarra (Spain) Prospects for the biological control of Tuta absoluta in tomato crops of the Mediterranean basin 
Jose E. Belda (Spain) Success and extension of biological control strategies for managing Tuta absoluta populations in the Mediterranean area
Hong Do (France) Improvement of integrated management against Tuta absoluta by using new egg parasitoids 
Lucia Zappalà (Italy) Adaptation of indigenous parasitoids to the invasive tomato pest Tuta absoluta in Italy: biology and behaviour of the braconid wasp Bracon nigricans (pdf)
Yamina Guenaoui (Algeria) Importance of native polyphagous predators able to prey on Tuta absoluta on tomato crops (pdf)
Guido Sterk (Belgium) Side-effects of lepidoptericides, used against Tuta absoluta, on different biological agents and pollinators

Session 5: Control strategies: integrated pest management (IPM)

Khaled Alrouechdi (FAO) Efforts of the FAO on the management of the tomato borer Tuta absoluta in the Near East region
Shakir Al-Zaidi (UK) History and current IPM strategies for the management of Tuta absoluta in the Mediterranean region
Liora Shaltiel-Harpaz (Israel) IPM of Tuta absoluta in Israel
Brahim Chermiti (Tunisia) Conception of an IPM programme to control Tuta absoluta in industrial tomato crops in Tunisia
Rachid Elaini (Maroc) Les aspects pratiques de la lutte contre Tuta absoluta dans la région du Souss, Maroc
Rob Jacobson (UK) Tuta absoluta: A season-long IPM strategy based on predatory bugs
Mario Balzan (Italy) Biological and chemical pest management strategies for the control of Tuta absoluta and their effectiveness (pdf)
Neil Morrison (UK) Investigating the potential of genetic control as part of an IPM approach for Tuta absoluta
Cristina Castañé (Spain) Integrated control of Tuta absoluta in the Mediterranean area, what can we learn for future pest invasions?
Mohammed AlQasim (Jordan) Report on Tuta absoluta on tomato at MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)

POSTERS

Delvare G, Lacordaire A-I, Ramel J-M (France) Necremnus artynes (Walker, 1839) (Eulophidae), a potential beneficial for the biological control of Tuta absoluta