News and Events
News
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Zoophytophagy dilemma: the risks of successful pest management
- ESR update - The success of different IPM programs can be boosted with an appropriate timing of natural enemies’ introductions to the crops.... -
Training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)
- Work Package update - For the thirteen Bingo ESRs (PhD-students) training means much more than just gaining experience from conducting a research... -
Population Genetics of Reproductive Dormancy in Drosophila
- ESR update - Dormancy is an important adaptation that allows many insects to cope with adverse environmental conditions. The fruit fly Drosophila... -
Nasonia vitripennis used as model for improving biocontrol agent performance and reducing their environmental impact
- ESR update - Making agents more effective at controlling pests, easier to mass culture, and less likely to harm non-target species are major goals of... -
Promoting adaptability of Amblyseius swirskii predatory mites to tomato crop
- ESR Update - Amblyseius swirskii is a predatory mite very effective for controlling whiteflies and thrips in protected crops. However, on tomato... -
Inheritance of moth scalelessness: the beauty of informative crosses
- ESR Update – Biocontrol research focusses mostly on the biocontrol agents and their pest target species. However, behind the scenes other... -
Performance – a challenge for grower and researcher
- Work Package update - The title of the Work Package 6 is performance. But what is meant by performance? During the BINGO-workshop in Valencia Tom... -
Fieldwork fun with Bracon parasitoid wasps: on the hunt for wild wasps
- ESR update – How different are parasitoid wasps between different populations? Individuals from one species might look alike, but can display... -
Planning field releases: between practicability and practical relevance
- ESR update - Before releasing a parasitoid as a potential biological control agent a lot of things need to be considered. How many individuals should... -
Selecting behavioural traits: assessing the complexity of the model
- ESR Update - Since an ecological model can be considered as a caricature or a simplification of a system, a modeller has to correctly decide on a...
BINGO in the media
- European insect pest control workshop held in Delemont
- Milena Chinchilla Ramírez published the BINGO-ITN project in the CABI newsletter Biocontrol News and Information June 2016 37(2), 9N–16N (page 15N)