New blog 📰on our website: #VIRTIGATION partner Unict investigated the geographic spread & diversity of the #BemisiTabaci #whitefly in 🇮🇹, providing also a 1st report of #whitefly #endosymbionts sequences: virtigation.eu/bemisia-tabaci… #H2020 #EUFunded #PlantHealth #Virus #Vectors

The remarkable traits of the #mangrove ecosystem translate into a wide variety of goods and services that we benefit from.

Now Agata Kaczmarek and Cristiana Do Vale Correia are giving seminar @UniversityOfCatania about EFSA activities in #planthealth and traineeship EFSA 🌱🪲

Disaster plant pathology: Smart solutions for threats to global plant health from natural and human-driven disasters | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.109… APS_Epidemiology

Protecting biodiversity defends our planet's ecological balance. 🌎 At CPM-18, we're addressing how invasive pests threaten biodiversity with IPPC data showing they contribute to +$70 billion in annual crop losses🐛Join the discussion live👉bit.ly/3xIb2TZ

#PlantHealth 🌱

🌴🌳🌲When we plant the right trees in the right places, we support a cooler, greener and healthier future.

🌆 As populations grow in cities, urban trees provide many environmental and social benefits, including mitigating #ClimateChange and increasing #biodiversity .

Via @fao

A nice ‘infographic’ 😍 of our work by Robin Choudhury 🐀 on remote sensing/Xylellafastidiosa developed within Bexyl Project presented by Juan A. Navas-Cortés (personal) at #IEW13

This month, Oak takes centre stage as part of our ongoing #HostOfTheMonth series 🌳

In his latest blog, Matt explains how to identify the species, tips on spotting signs of acute oak decline (AOD) and how to report them via #TreeAlert .

Read the blog ⤵
ow.ly/Lkm150Re6TA

Forests are crucial in helping us adapt to #ClimateChange .

They:

💧help ensure water availability
🌊 protect against landslides and floods
🏜️ prevent desertification
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 provide alternative livelihoods for people

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➡Meeting with the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agraria e Veterinaria (INIAV) and Direção-Geral da Alimentação e Veterinária( DGAV) teams #Xvectors #vectors sampling #Philaenus #Lisbon #Portugal #EFSA_EU #cork #oak #olive

➡EFSA visit to the InnovPlantProtect lab iplantprotect.pt/?lang=en in the frame of #Xvectors grant in Portugal #Elvas #smart process #samplig with innovative field app.🐛🦋🐞 #Philaenus #surveys

Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 10, 2024
Sweat bee
Augochlora pura
Hymenoptera: Halictidae
By Joseph Ferraro (@Joseph_ferraro), Michigan, USA
#arthropodPOTW

Stats on the 2023 fire season in the EU from the European #ForestFire Information System #EFFIS advance report:
🗺️Burnt area ~twice of Luxembourg
📈Increase in burnt areas in summer
🔥Largest single fire since the 1980s
🌫️20 megatonnes of CO2 emissions
europa.eu/!PX4cwG

A new EPPO datasheet on Tomato mild mottle virus is available: gd.eppo.int/taxon/TOMMOV/d…
This virus affects tomato and eggplant is transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. It only occurs in a limited number of countries

Thanks to Nataša Mehle NIB - Dept. of Biotechnology and Systems Biology

Briliant presentation by Rosace Maria Chiara at the #IEW13 on the Spatial modeling of hotspots for plant pest introductions in EU, the HoPPI project Plants EFSA

Kristina Kovacikova – #MachineLearning specialist from EU_ScienceHub DISINFO unit provides a concrete example on disinformation in #ClimateChange
now at #HSPH24 , as last presentation of this 2 day event

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