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SAMFIX at the LIFE17 Kick-off meeting Nature & Biodiversity in Brussels
On 8-9 November 2018 SAMFIX Project Manager Daniele Guarneri and Management Technical Assistant Gertruud van Leijen participate to the kick-off meeting of the LIFE projects on Nature and Biodiversity that have been approved this year. During this event, organised by EASME in collaboration with the DG Environment of the European Commission and NEEMO, representatives of
Prof. Andrea Vannini invited as speaker at the “Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries Working Party Meeting”
Prof. Andrea Vannini presented as invited speaker at the “Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries Working Party Meeting” of the IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04 at Kusadasi (Turkey) 21-26 October, 2018 the communication “The Ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus compactus and associated fungi: a new risk for European flora associated to nurseries and trading of living plants”. The
Conference LIFE The Green Link “Affrontare la desertificazione nel Mediterraneo col Cocoon”
Tuesday, October 23th, at the Botanical Garden of Rome, the LIFE Project The Green Link (LIFE15 CCA / ES / 000125) organized its conference “Facing desertification in the Mediterranean with the Cocoon”. During the day, that was chaired by our Management Technical Assistant Gertruud van Leijen, an innovative technique was shared with the Italian audience
First record of X. crassiusculus in Slovenia
In Slovenia, X. crassiusculus was found casually in traps during a survey for early detection of the walnut twig beetle,Pityophthorus juglandis Blackman. On 1 August 2017, 117 reddish-brown beetles were caught in a trap in Podsabotin. Shortly after two beetles were foundalso in the sample collected from Prvačina. Herewith Slovenia is the fourth European country
X. crassiusculus back in Valencia
Although in the Valencia region in 2017 no notifications of Xylosandrus crassiusculus occurred, the inventory carried out during July-October 2018 confirmed that beetles are present in 12 Carob trees distributed in an area of 60 ha surrounding the 2016 outbreak. They were quit difficult to detect, because no foliar symtoms on canopy are evident, and
SAMFIX kicked off!
The project LIFE SAMFIX kicked-off with a meeting between all partners on July 19-20th at the Circeo national park. A lot of preparatory work is currently in course focusing on the development of an initial lure-based beetle trapping protocol, the preparation of protocols for the detection, identification and determination of pathogenicity assessment of alien fungi