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  • Successful Puerto Rico IRM FAW Training Workshop

    Fall armyworm (FAW) (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a serious pest in corn, if uncontrolled; this pest can cause a severe damage of the breeding materials of the seed industry at Puerto Rico. One of the tools to manage FAW is the use of insecticides of different modes of action. However, FAW has a tremendous ability to

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  • IRAC Brazil participates in the “IRM Training of Vegetable Growers”

    On May 8, the “Meeting of the Vegetable Growers” took place through the Secretariat of Agriculture, Agribusiness, Labor and Development and Municipality of Itapetininga. The meeting brought together farmers from the region and area technicians to discuss issues related to the control of pests of agricultural importance for cucumber, peppers and tomatoes – mainly addressing

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  • Resistencia de Cydia pomonella a varios modos de acción – alerta

    IRAC España ha emitido una alerta de aviso de resistencia de Cydia pomonella a diversos modos de acción en frutales de pepita. En los últimos años se están produciendo numerosos casos de problemas de control de Carpocapsa (Cydia pomonella) en el valle del Ebro. Además, se ha detectado un incremento de las poblaciones tanto de esta

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  • Successful workshop on insect resistance management in Brazil

    On April 4, 2019, IRAC-BR and the Copacol cooperative (Cafelândia-PR) organized the I WORKSHOP ON INSET RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT (MRI) to discuss the validation of regional MRI recommendations. The event brought together experts on insect resistance and the staff of Copacol.   Initially the process of evolution of insect resistance to insecticides and Bt plants and

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  • The Case for the Canadian Agriculture Industry to Proactively Engage in Pesticide Resistance Management

    The Ontario Pest Management Conference (OPMC) Steering Committee commissioned this White Paper as a call to action, to stimulate focused dialogue and set in motion a compelling strategy to proactively engage Canadian agriculture stakeholders in pesticide resistance management (RM). Its intention is to set out a coherent approach to align Canadian agriculture stakeholders in RM engagement. It

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  • New Mode of Action Tutorial from IRAC

    The IRAC Mode of Action Working Group have developed a set of 74 slides as a MoA tutorial outlining the major mechanisms of insecticide resistance and, explaining with graphics, MoA by the targeted physiology affected using the broad categories of:  Nerve and Muscle, Growth and Development, Respiration, Midgut and Unknown or Non-specific target sites or

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  • Resistencia de Tuta absoluta a diamidas (mda 28) en tomate – alerta.

    IRAC España ha emitido una Alerta sobre resistencias de Tuta absoluta a diamidas (MoA 28) en tomate. En los últimos meses se están produciendo muchos problemas en el control de Tuta absoluta en las principales zonas productoras de tomate de invernadero de Almería y Murcia, detectándose un claro incremento de la presión de la plaga

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