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Field Days for Advancing Macadamia Pest Management   As part of the MC21000 project, "Pest Management in Australian Macadamias," funded by Hort Innovation with levy contributions from the Australian Macadamia Society, a pest consultant meeting and a two-day field event took place in Yandina, Queensland. The objective was to review last year's sampling protocols and other research activities, as well as recalibrate the monitoring app developed by partner organization Cervantes Agritech. Project lead Dr Bishwo Mainali and investigator Dr Syed Rizvi from Macquarie University Applied BioSciences, along with Dr Tania Yonow and Dr Darren Kriticos from Cervantes Agritech, George Revell from AgEcon, and pest consultants @Jarrah Coates (NNSW), Chris Fuller (Gympie), and Chris Themsen and Earl Yandall (Bundaberg), participated in the meeting and field event. This collaborative forum provided a platform for all project partners to share invaluable insights and experiences, guiding the direction of project activities to better serve the needs of the Macadamia community and ensuring that our research efforts remain responsive and relevant.

We're thrilled to announce the publication of our latest research manuscript in Elsevier Science Direct, Current Opinion in Insect Science. This study, titled "Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe" presents a case study focusing on the threats posed by Aleurocanthus woglumi (#citrusblackfly) to Europe. It delves into the biology of the species, its preferred hosts, and how climate change could affect its spread. Utilizing a #CLIMEX bioclimatic niche model to estimate the potential distribution and climate suitability patterns for A. woglumi, the paper estimates the potential distribution of A. woglumi in Europe under recent historical and medium-term future conditions, revealing a potential expansion of its range into higher elevations and more northern regions by the year 2050. This achievement is the result of collaboration of experts from University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture - Darija Lemic, Helena Viric Gasparic and Ivana Pajac Zivkovic; Darren Kriticos form Cervantes Agritech; Catriona Duffy form Maynooth University; Antigoni Akrivou from Benaki Phytopathological Institute and Noboru Ota from CSIRO Health & Biosecurity. We're excited about the potential impact of our work and look forward to engaging with the community on these findings. Use 50 days' free access to the article on this link: https://lnkd.in/dHRmSQ3d #Research #Innovation #Published #CLIMEX #citrusblackfly #currentopinion #climatechange #CervantesAgritech

Continuing the fruit fly theme this week, we are delighted to announce that our study published in 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 reveals statistically significant trends in climatic suitability for 𝐶𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑎 (Medfly) attributable to #climatechange. A 50-year time-series (1971-2020) of historical weather data revealed statistically significant, positively trended increases in the #climex Growth Index and Ecoclimatic Index at selected bellwether sites near the range boundaries in southern Europe and California, mainly attributable to improved temperature conditions for growth and reduced cold stress.  Our modelling analysis supports the observation that Europe and California are witnessing northward and altitudinal range expansions of Medfly, increasing the IPM challenges for #horticulture in these regions. https://lnkd.in/evJieNjM Fruit Flies-IPM #medfly #CLIMEX #UTH #csiro Cervantes Agritech Hearne Software Anna Szyniszewska Nikos Papadopoulos Jakub Nowosad Karol Kozyra Hanna Bieszczak Gabrielle Vivian-Smith, PhD Phil Taylor Vivian Mendez Bishwo Mainali Bernie Dominiak Vesna Gagic Katharina Merkel Andy Sheppard ARCS PhD DIC FRES FTSE Dean Paini, PhD GAICD Wee Tek Tay Helene Delatte Vasilis G. Rodovitis Slawomir Lux Jessica Kriticos

Several UKspace members are among recipients of funding from the UK Space Agency's first tranche of funding from its new £20m International Bilateral Fund. They include Rolls-Royce, Satellite Applications Catapult. Deimos Space UK, SJE Space, Telespazio UK, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Earth-i, Astroscale, Orbit Fab, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Assimila Ltd, AstroAgency, Reaction Engines, In-Space Missions Limited. Geospatial Insight Limited and D-Orbit. Lizzie Kerr, Director of UKspace, welcomed the announcement, saying: "International collaboration underpins the success of the UK’s space sector – and this new programme is an important new route to unlock new international partnerships, benefitting companies overseas and here in the UK." https://lnkd.in/e3iYrahN