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Second-Instar ISBCA

The 2nd International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods (ISBCA) will be held on 12-16 September 2005 in Davos, Switzerland. This conference continues the symposium series established with the 1st ISBCA organized by Roy Van Driesche and colleagues in Hawaii in January 2002. The conference themes will be:

• Invasion biology and lessons for biological control
• Biological control of arthropods of conservation importance
• Recent successes in classical biological control: an impact analysis
• Cultural manipulations to enhance biological control
• Contribution of biological control to the global development agenda
• Implementation of biological control through farmer participatory training and research
• Compatibility of insect-resistant transgenic plants with biological control
• The role of food supplements in biological control
• Role of generalist predators in biological control
• Augmentative biological control in outdoor annual crops
• Augmentative biological control in greenhouses
• Environmental risk assessment of invertebrate biological control agents
• Predicting natural enemy host ranges: strengths and limitations of lab assays
• Legislation and biological control of arthropods: challenges and opportunities

To foster interchange of information among attendees, concurrent sessions have been avoided. The conference organizers aim was to stimulate ideas by providing a forum for presenting new information. They have therefore given preference to submissions that present original data from specific projects pertaining to biological programmes with predators and parasitoids, rather than overviews, summaries or material that is already widely known.

An important goal of this second meeting is to be truly international. Regional coordinators are promoting awareness of the meeting in their geographic areas, while leaders of the sessions have also encouraged global participation. See the website for further information:

www.cabi-bioscience.ch/ISBCA-DAVOS-2005/

Contacts: Ulli Kuhlmann,
CABI Bioscience Switzerland,
Chair Local Organizing Committee.
Email: u.kuhlmann@cabi.org

Mark Hoddle, University of California at Riverside, Chair Scientific Programme Committee.
Email: mark.hoddle@ucr.edu

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Endophytes and Biocontrol Agents Meeting

The 1st International Conference on Plant-Microbe Interactions: Endophytes and Biocontrol Agents (EBA) will be held in Saariselkä, in the Lapland region of Finland, on 18-22 April 2005. See:
www.bioweb.fi/

The aim of the Conference is to promote multidisciplinary information exchange, discussion and collaboration between scientists working in different areas of plant/microbe interactions.

Contact: Seppo Sorvari, Conference Convener,
EBA Conference Bureau, c/o BioBien Innovations, Toivonlinnantie 517, Fin-21500 Piikkiö, Finland.
Email: eba@bioweb.fi
Fax: +358 2 4772 289

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EMAPi in Poland

The 8th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (EMAPi) will be held on 5-10 September 2005 at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. It is being co-organized by the Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Białowieża and the Geobotanical Station, Warsaw University. Themes of the conference will include:

• Invasive alien plants in floras (exotic/alien floras; checklists; black lists and warning lists)
• Ecological impacts of invasive plants (dispersion, distribution and dynamic tendencies; impact on ecosystems)
• Biology and genetic studies of invasive plants (case studies; taxonomy and microevolution)
• Predicting and detecting invasions with geomatic tools
• Human perception and its role in biological invasions
• Legislation, international cooperation and management solutions
• Biological and integrated control (case studies; removal experiences)

Registration and abstract submission should be completed via email by 28 February 2005. See the website for further details.

Email: emapi@us.edu.pl
Web: www.emapi.us.edu.pl/

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Turning the Tide Online

An alternative (html-based) online 'gateway' page is now available to the contents of Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species, the Proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives, held in Auckland, New Zealand in 2001.

The new page, which includes a link to allow downloading of the entire text of the document as a single PDF file, is:

www.hear.org/articles/turningthetide/

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IPM Reviews Closes with LGB

A special issue of Integrated Pest Management Reviews (volume 7, number 4), 'Prostephanus truncatus Research and Management', contains the following four papers on larger grain borer (P. truncatus):

• Ecological Studies on the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Col.: Bostrichidae) and their implications for integrated pest management. M. G. Hill, C. Borgemeister & C. Nansen
• Detection and monitoring of larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae). R. J. Hodges
• Chemical, physical and cultural control of Prostephanus truncatus. P. Golob
• Phytosanitary measures against larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae), in international trade. P. S. Tyler & R. J. Hodges.

The journal ceases publication with this issue and the completion of volume seven.

Web: www.kluweronline.com/issn/1353-5226

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