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What's happening in the world of biological control?  Check out the latest links of interest...

February 2021

Check out this video about Spectral Analytix, a new start-up company with technology to help mass production of insects.

December 2020

Many interesting biocontrol meetings were canceled in 2020, but publications were still coming out!  Check out several from 2020 that have open access...

Grafton-Cardwell, E.E., W.J. Bentley, M. L. Bianchi, F. E. Cave, R. B. Elkins, L. Godfrey, P. Gu, D. R. Haviland, D. Headrick, M. Hoddle, J. McMurtry, M. Murrietta, N.J. Mills, Y. Ouyang, C. Pickel, S. Rill, M. C. Stavrinides, and L. G. Varela. 2020. Surveys of 12 California crops for phytoseiid predatory mites show changes compared to earlier studies. Cal. Ag. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2020a0010

Goolsby, J.A. & D. I. Shapiro-Ilan 2020. Passive transfer of Steinernema riobrave entomopathogenic nematodes with potential implications for treatment of cattle fever tick-infested nilgai. Biocontrol Science and Technology.

Erfan K. Vafaie, H. Brent Pemberton, Mengmeng Gu, David Kerns, ... Kevin M. Heinz Article 104407
A comparison of repetitive releases of single or multiple natural enemy species on the suppression of Bemisia tabaci infesting poinsettias

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ANBP Meeting News and Press Releases

Winter 2021

As with many organizations this year, we are just watching to see how things "open up" for travel and in-person meetings.  We will keep everyone posted! 

Fall 2020

ANBP Fall Board of Directors Meeting and Annual General Meeting (AGM) - Was held virtually this year.

ANBP had planned on meeting at the Canadian Greenhouse Conference in October, but that was canceled.  Instead w did have a Virtual meeting on October 20th with all ANBP members invited to attend.  Hopefully we will meet face-to-face in Spring of 2021.  We'll keep you posted!

Fall 2019

ANBP Fall Board of Directors Meeting

ANBP had a wonderful Fall Board of Directors/Annual General Meeting this September 2019.  We will be adding details here shortly!  In the meantime, check out the two student awards ANBP made for best poster and best oral presentations at this September IOBC Aphid meeting. 

ANBP 2019 Award of Excellence to
Dr. Clive Stinson

Dr. Clive Stinson has been awarded our 2019 Award of Excellence!  Please check out his complete award article here.

ANBP participates in Entomological Society of America (ESA) Symposium, November 2019. 

ANBP was asked to join a symposium this fall on "advocating for the use of biological control in IPM".  One of our ANBP Advisers, Dr. Norm Leppla (Univ. of Florida) co-authored the talk with Richard Ward (ANBP President), and Lynn LeBeck (ANBP Exe. Director).  To see how both our ANBP members are currently "advocating for biocontrol", as well as how the research biocontrol community in the US is promoting biocontrol, we decided to do surveys for both groups.  We only had 15 minutes for a talk, so slides had to be fairly summary-rich, but our presentation is located here.  It was very-well received and we hope to analyze more of the data in the near future. 
ESA Presentation on Advocating for Biocontrol in IPM.  November, 2019
 

For more information,
contact Lynn LeBeck,
ANBP Executive Director.