Announcements Are you producing a newsletter, holding a meeting, running an organization or rearing a natural enemy that you want other biocontrol workers to know about? Send us the details and we will announce it in BNI. IOBC Fifty in 2005The General Assembly of IOBC/WPRS (International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants, Western Palaearctic Regional Section) will take place in Dijon, France on 17–21 September 2005. As well as the formal General Assembly, there will be a scientific meeting and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of IOBC. Contact: Claude
Alabouvette, Fruit Flies on the NetA new database, the
Tephritid Fruit Fly Workers Database, was launched in May at: The online database, which has been established by the Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN/International Atomic Energy Authority) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, has grown out of the IOBC (International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants) annual newsletter. The site includes news, a directory of workers and a publications database. Because of the economic importance of many tephritid species and their threat to fruit and vegetable production and trade worldwide, they are becoming increasingly important and a tremendous amount of new information on them is made available each year. The goal of the new database initiative is to facilitate collection and sharing of information to allow tephritid workers worldwide to keep up with developments in this fast-moving field. To register electronically, go to the website International Fruit Fly SymposiumThe 7th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance will be held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on 10–15 September 2006. This symposium series is organized under the umbrella of a geographically balanced steering committee from the international community of fruit fly workers. Although the growing importance of fruit flies worldwide means that there are now some two thousand pure and applied scientists working in this field, the fruit fly community, including researchers and action programme and industry representatives remains a close one. The 4-yearly international symposia grow larger every time, fuelled by scientific vigour and some spectacular area-wide control successes, but the focus is on organization to allow interactions between all participants. Email: Aldo Malavasi [aldo@fruitfly.com.br]
or International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceCABI International and ICIPE (International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology) have entered into a new publishing collaboration to improve the outreach and impact of the former journal Insect Science and its Application, now named the International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. This is the 24th year of publication of Insect Science and Its Application since its founding in 1980 by Kenyan entomologist and first Director of ICIPE, the late Thomas R. Odhiambo, and the African Association of Insect Scientists (AAIS). The first issue the International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, which is a special issue, has now been published and is entitled 'African pollination ecology: conserving and using pollination as an essential ecosystem service to sustain human enterprise and biodiversity.' The diversity and complex ecology of pollinators, and the essential ecosystem services they provide, as well as the possibilities they pose for judicious commercial exploitation, represent important reasons why insect science and its applications is a crucial discipline for tropical development. For more information about
International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
see: EWRS SymposiumThe 13th European Weed Research Society (EWRS) Symposium will be held in Bari, Italy on 20–23 June 2005. This is the latest meeting in a long and historical series, which provides a forum for scientists to present their work on a broad range of weed science topics either as oral presentations or posters. Bioherbicide WorkshopThe 7th International Bioherbicide Group Workshop will be held in Bari, Italy on 24 June 2005 as a satellite meeting of the EWRS symposium (above). These workshops bring together scientists with a common interest in microbial control of weeds, and are an opportunity to share and discuss results. The workshops also provide a mechanism for considering future needs and research directions. Contact: Maurizio Vurro, ILEIA UpdatedILEIA (Centre of
Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture) has
launched a new ILEIA/LEISA website. This includes online versions of LEISA
magazine, ILEIA Newsletter and regional
magazines, together with a calendar of events, a directory of
workers/organizations and a discussion forum. The information on the
website can also be accessed through 19 'areas of interest' to help
users find what they need more easily. The website can be accessed at: ILEIA is also now issuing a quarterly news brief, E-LEISA, to bring readers up to date with field-based experiences and developments. It includes highlights from the global edition of the LEISA Magazine and directs readers to information collected, analysed and published by ILEIA and its regional partners, which is available on the website. A CD-ROM of all the
articles published by ILEIA in the ILEIA Newsletter
and the LEISA Magazine in the period
1984–2003 is also available. The nearly one thousand articles reflect
20 years of practical field experiences described by field practitioners
and development workers worldwide. The articles also reflect the
development of interest and knowledge on ecological and participatory
approaches in agricultural development that have taken place since the
early 1980s. Articles on the CD-ROM are indexed by volume, author and
topic and are available in HTML or PDF format. The CD-Rom is free for
those in the South, and costs i10 for organizations and individuals from
the North. Contact: ILEIA, Zuidsingel
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