Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 77, July 2011 | IAEA

The IAEA Regional TC Project RER5022 was designed to support European regional issues related to the surveillance and control of invasive Aedes mosquitoes through the pro- motion

Research and development in the Fruit Fly Rearing la- boratories over the last six months has concentrated on streamlining production methods for a range of pest fruit fly

The Insect Pest Control Laboratory continues to supply the VIENNA 8 temperature sensitive lethal (tsl) genetic sexing strain of the Mediterranean fruit fly to mass- rearing

Ishan Ul-Haq, a PhD student, also from Pakistan, is using melon fly for studies on the improvement of sterile male performance for SIT programmes. He has found that the feeding

A consultants meeting was convened at IAEA HQ in Vi- enna, Austria from 3-7 December 2007, where four inter- national renowned consultants (by Drs Matthew Addison, Jim Carpenter,

Jorge Hendrichs RAF/5/051 SIT for Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Management in Africa Udo Feldmann RAF/5/052 SIT Development for Control of Anopheles Mosquito Alan Robinson

2007, and the first commercial releases of sterile FCM adults are scheduled for November 2007. Under project SAF5007, IAEA funding for the FCM project has in- cluded equipment

An expert in aquaculture from Belgium (Prof. Sor- geloos) also attended the meeting, besides several staff of the Insect Pest Control Subprogramme. The research in this CRP focuses