Dear netters,

I have the following announcement :

The 4 th International Conference on Pests in Agriculture will be held in  Montpellier, France 6-7-8 January 1997 by the Association Nationale de  Protection des Plantes, with the help of IOBC and Agropolis International.  The meeting will take place in Le Corum, in the Great Congress Hall of  Montpellier.

The Provisional Programme is divided in :

Plenary sessions (invited papers):

        -Integrated pest management against pests : "from the grower to the consumer. Facts and  prospects. Six invited speakers will be featured in  a round table discussion with questions and answers from the audience.
        -New developments in plant protection. New materials.

Specialised sessions (offered papers):

        1.  Predators. Parasitoids. Entomopathogens. Biological Control.
        2.  Semiochemicals.
        3.  Host Plant Resistance to pests.
        4.  Non-target effetcts of Agrochemicals.
        5.  Resistance of pests and natural enemies to agrochemicals.
        6.  Environmental considerations in pest control. Sustainable development.
        7.  Nematodes.
        8.  Sucking insecs and vectors of plant diseases.
        9.  Lepidoptera.
        10. MITES.
        11. Soil pests. Soil and seed treatments.
        12. Field crops.
        13. Perennial crops.
        14. forests and ornamental trees and shrubs. Woody nurseries.
        15. Vegetable and ornamental crops.
        16. Tropical crops.
        17. Integrated pest management. Evaluation.
        18. Biotechnology. Genetic engineering.
         19. Stored products.
        20. Vertebrates (Rodents, Birds).
        21. Perfume, medicinal and aromatic crops.

Deadline for papers submission is July 15, 1996.
Simultaneous translation in French/English and in English/French will be  provided.
Papers will be presented by the authors during plenary sessions, specialised  sessions or during poster sessions.
Instructions to authors will be sent in the next circular . However a short  summary and a title of the offered paper should be provided as soon as possible  to ANPP secretariat and before July 15.
ALL PAPERS, including short papers and posters, will appear in the proceedings  given to each participant AT THE OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE. Registration fees  will be indicated in the next circular.

FOR ALL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT :

ANPP.
6, Boulevard de la Bastille.  f75012 PARIS. tel : 00 33 1 43 44 89 64 fax : 00 33 1 43 44 29 19

Electronic reprints are posted on the Internet in portable document format(PDF) to be read or printed by  anyone on the Internet.  When printed, the "e-reprint" matches the traditional reprint exactly.
E-reprints are convenient for both authors and readers, and they cost little to produce.  Since 1994, the Florida Entomological Society has posted e-reprints of all articles published in Florida Entomologist (its refereed journal begun in 1917).  Because making and mounting the PDF files costs the Society less than $2.50 per page, it has opted not to charge authors for e-reprints but to absorb the cost within current page charges.

You can access these e-reprints at http://www.fcla.ufl.edu/FlaEnt/fehmpg.htm and decide for yourself if authors in your societies' journals might like to have the option of having their articles available in this form all the time anywhere on the Internet.

At the same site is a hyperlink to a fuller discussion of e-reprints, originally published in the March 1996 issue of BioScience, on p. 171.

Thomas J. Walker
Department of Entomology & Nematology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 tjw@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

From:  Yvon Beeckmans <yvbeeck@innet.be>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  6/13/96 6:33am
Subject:  plant extracts against Tetranychus urticae

Greetings to all,

I'm currently doing a master in applied natural sciences at the Universit=E9 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.  The subject is testing potential acaricidal activity of extract of tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) on the red spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae), which my provisional results seem to confirm.
Hence I've been looking in the litterature for other similar experiences, but I didn't find anything.  Does somebody know of such experiences, and can tell me where I can find some information ?

Thanks in advance

Yvon Beeckmans
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium e-mail yvbeeck@innet.be
 
 

Third EURAAC Symposium

The Third Symposium of the European Association of Acarologists (EURAAC),
will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the first week of July (July
1-5), 1996. The meeting takes place in the main Auditorium of the
University of Amsterdam, entrance at Singel 411.
 

Main topics

The central theme of the Symposium is: Ecology and Evolution in the Acari.
Emphasis will be given to phylogeny, evolutionary ecology and speciation
processes. Registration and key note address will take place on Monday,
July 1, as well as the bussiness meeting of the EURAAC.
 

Lectures and Posters

The plenary morning sessions are composed of lectures which will be
presented by invited speakers. For the afternoon sessions, participants are
invited to submit contributed papers. There are also special poster
sessions. We ask you to submit an abstract of your contribution to the
Symposium secretariat. It is possible that participants are asked to
present a poster instead of a lecture when too many applications for
lecture presentations are received.
 

Proceedings

A selection of the papers presented at the Symposium will be published as a
special issue of Experimental and Applied Acarology. The contributions will
be subject to external review as is custom for international journals and
should be structured according to the guidelines of the journal.
Manuscripts should be delivered to the Symposium Secretariat during the
meeting. Publication is due within a year after the meeting.

The topics for the plenary sessions are:

S Phylogeny and Evolution

S Evolutionary Genetics, Morphology and Physiology

S Evolutionary Ecology: Behaviour, Life History and Multitrophic Interactions

S Speciation Processes

Registration fees

The registration fee for the Symposium will be Dfl 500.--, when payment is
received before April 1, 1996. Participants sending in their payment after
this date, but before June 1, 1996 have to pay Dfl 550.--, and the fee will
be Dfl 600.-- when paid during the meeting. Registration fee for students
will be Dfl 300.--, if paid before April 1, and will be Dfl 400.-- if paid
during the meetings. This fee includes admission to the meetings, the
proceedings, coffee, tea and lunches. An additional Dfl 75.-- is requested
for those who participate in the Symposium dinner. Payments should be made
either by cheque, international money order or by transfer to Postbank
account no. 5032138 in favour of Faculteit Biologie, Kruislaan 320,
Amsterdam. Please refer to EURAAC-Symposium for all your payments. The
Symposium Secretariat has no facilities to process payments by means of
credit cards.

Local Organising Committee

The local organising committee consists of the following persons: Maurice
Sabelis (Chairman), Kees Davids, Leo van der Geest and Fred Veerman, all
from the University of Amsterdam. Administrative support will be given by
Mrs Tine Korzilius.

Symposium secretariat

Mrs Tine Korzilius, Section Population Biology, University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 320, 1098 SM Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 20 525 7754
Tel.: +31 20 525 7736
e-mail: korzilius@bio.uva.nl

Please contact Mrs Korzilius for registration forms.
 

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------------------------------------------ Leo van der Geest
Section Population Biology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 320, NL-1098
SM Amsterdam
e-mail geest@bio.uva.nl, fax +31 20 5257754, tel. +31 20 5257740

Does anyone know where I can get hold of cultures of: Caloglyphus berlesei and/or Rhizoglyphus robinii?

Any help very gratefully received!

Tim
 

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tbenton@cup.cam.ac.uk

Dr Tim Benton
Cambridge University Press
Shaftesbury Rd

Cambridge CB2 2RU
 

tel (44 or 0)-1223-325774 fax (44 or 0)-1223-315052

Selected contents of Systematic and Applied Acarology ISSN 1362-1971
Vol. 1,  July 1996; 224 pages, 260 x 190 mm; in English
Published by the Systematic and Apllied Acarology Society in London.

*Biochemistry, Toxicology & Genetics*

Selection and genetic analysis of fenvalerate resistance in Amblyseius pseudolongispinosus  (Acari: Phytoseiidae)   K.-Y. Zhu, L.-S. Ke &  J.-L.
Xin

RAPD-PCR method for detecting DNA polymorphism in Boophilus microplus
(Acari: Ixodidae).  M.-Y. Lan  et al.

Host-tick immune interaction. I. Analysis of common antigenic components between Ixodes sinensis and Haemaphysalis bispinosa (Acari: Ixodidae).
Z.-G. Liu et al.

*Biocontrol, Ecology & Behaviour*

Approaches to enhance the effectiveness of biocontrol of Panonychus citri
(Acari: Tetra-nychidae) with Sthethorus punctillum (Coleoptera:
Cocinellidae) in citrus orchards in Guizhou. X.-L. Yang et al.

Biocontrol of Tetranychus kanzawai (Acari: Tetranychidae) using
Phytoseiulus persimilis  (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in open-air strawberry gardens. Y.-X. Zhang et al.

Biology of Allothrombium ovatum (Acari: Trombidiidae) and its controlling effect on Aphis gossypii (Homoptera: Aphididae). Y.-C. Dong, R.-B. Ran &
J.-Y. Xiang

Infestation of Drosophila cultures (Diptera: Drosophilidae) by mites of
Proctolaelaps (Acari: Ascidae) and experiments on mite feeding habits. W.
W. Weisser & Z.-Q. Zhang

Laboratory life history of the predaceous mite Typhlodromus athiasae
(Acari: Phytoseiidae).  H. Reuveny, E. Palevsky & U. Gerson

 Parasitism of aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) by larvae of Allothrombium pulvinum (Acari: Trombidiidae): host species selection, host size selection, and superparasitism. Z.-Q. Zhang

Sources and dispersal of Allothrombium ovatum larvae (Acari: Trombidiidae) in cotton fields and effects of larval mites on Aphis gossypii (Homoptera:
Aphididae). H.-J. Zhang & J.-S. Li

Study on the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of Tetranychus kanzawai (Acari: Tetranychidae) in open-air strawberry gardens. Y.-X. Zhang et al.

*Systematics, Morphology & Evolution*

A review and cladistic analysis of the Eupodoidea (Acari: Acariformes).
T.-K. Qin

A cladistic analysis of the Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata): tests of monophyly of families. X.-Y. Hong  & Z.-Q. Zhang

A new genus of the family Xenocaligonellidae (Acari: Raphignathoidea).
Q.-H. Fan & Y. Chen

Abrolophus and Grandjeanella larvae (Acari: Erythraeidae) ectoparasitic on thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Z.-Q. Zhang & A. Goldarazena

Notes on the sand mite genus Multisetosa (Acariformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae).
T.-H. Wen

A new species of Pyemotes (Acari: Pyemotidae) parasitic on bark beetles
(Coleoptera: Scolytidae) from Hebei, China. L.-C. Yu & L.-R. Liang

Two new species of the Tarsoneminae from China (Acari: Tarsonemidae). J.-Z.
Lin & Y.-X. Zhang

The genus Macronyssus (Acari: Macro-nyssidae) in China with descriptions of two new species. M.-S. Zhou, D.-Q. Wang &  S.-R. Wang

Four new species of the Hypoaspidinae (Acari: Laelapidae) from moss in
China. X.-N. Xu & L.-R. Liang

A new genus and new species of the Otopheidomenidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from longhorned grasshoppers. C.-F. Mo

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