Name: Hijacking chemical communication in insects
Start: 2024-05-14T19:00:00
End: 2024-05-14T20:30:00
Location: The Burrow

Somia Afzal and Kempsy Adams explain how they aim to hijack the chemical communication pathway in insects to create lures to use for insect trapping in crops

Managing Five-Spined Bark Beetles: A Control Strategy

Somia Afzal (University of Sunshine Coast)

Ips grandicollis (Ig), native to eastern USA, has caused consistent economic damage to Australia's pine industry for over five decades. Biocontrol in Australia for managing Ig was largely unsuccessful, and pesticides are unsuitable and unsustainable. Manipulating the host-finding behaviour of beetles holds promise to reduce Ig populations.

Finding a Lure

Kempsy Adams (Dept Agriculture and Fisheries)

We are investigating a pheromone for Fruit Spotting Bug (Amblypelta nitida) to use in a trap for crop monitoring.

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