South Africa

Report in brief from 2021/22:

Regular scheduled meetings are well attended by a diverse range of people from various companies and industries with very good participation.
A spin-off team has been formed called the “New and emerging pests meeting” to address entomological issues not specifically related to resistance.
Various IRM awareness campaigns have taken place, especially via the members who belong to grower groups and academic institutions.
A number of IRM guidelines and outreach documents have been developed or updated and further activities are ongoing. These include IRM for fall armyworm, tobacco whitefly and nematodes.
Fall armyworm resistance studies have been carried out and resistance confirmed to beta-cypermethrin, indoxacarb and methomyl (academic publication in process). There is some ongoing discussions however on the best path forward
Susceptibility testing on Russian wheat aphid with various registered chemicals (chlorpyrifos, dimethoate, imidacloprid, acetamiprid, thiamethoxam, flupyradifurone) is in progress.
Resistance issues are being investigated for Tuta absoluta and Thrips