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September 1999, Volume 20 No. 3
Internet Round-up
By: Tony Little, Technical Support Group to the Global IPM Facility, CABI Bioscience.
My task this quarter would be much harder were it not for the `Pheromone pages & research groups' and the `chemical ecology' sections of the Internet Jump List at
http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/links.html
It provides links to sites dealing with particular areas of research, for example gypsy moth and tick pheromone research, and commercial pheromone companies. The list is managed by the pheromone research group at the University of Lund, Sweden and details of their work can be found at
http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/HomePage.html
The group also has close links with the chemical ecology group at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Alnarp at
http://www.vsv.slu.se/cec/h.htm
is the virtual home of the International Organization of Biological Control's Working Group (IOBC WG) on the Use of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals in Integrated Control. This gives details of meetings, past and forthcoming, and a list of WG publications. Pheronet also plays host to the pherolist, a database of chemical components identified from female Lepidoptera, and other chemicals attractive to male moths.
There are a number of sites dealing with the use of pheromone traps for the use of monitoring, for example: the University of Maine's work on maize pests at
http://130.111.117.45/swetcorn/pheromon.htm
also the role of pheromone monitoring in the USDA Boll Weevil eradication programme in the USA at
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weevil.html
and a nice little summary for major pests of different
crops in the state of Colorado at
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/IPM/pdf/05562.pdf
Brief summaries of several NRI projects involving the use of pheromones in IPM can be accessed from
http://www.nri.org/Projects/theme15.htm
Some of the commercial company sites are quite interesting. IPM Technologies, for instance, at
http://www.ipmtech.com/home_old.html
who are collaborating with Agricultural Research Service , the US Department of Agriculture 's chief scientific research agency, on a project to control a range of pests by developing attract-and-kill traps, details of which are posted at
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1999/990111.htm