Fruit Flies News
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EAVISION Brasil Application, Deploying the Global Smart Agriculture Market
As we all know, compared with the advantages of plant protection drones that are easy to popularize under the conditions of wheat, rice and other field crops, the penetration rate of commercial crops in hilly and mountainous areas is very small. Some plant protection machines can only imitate tree canopies, but cannot accurately imitate terrain and autonomous obstacle avoidance. As a leading ...
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Closer to rapid detection of fruit flies invading Europe’s crops
Scientists work intensively towards healthy EU fruit crops. They collect biological and ecological data, and field test electronic traps and noses prototypes to create a holistic innovative approach on fruit flies’ invasion, from early detection to prevention. The Annual Meeting brought up together more than 40 scientists from 16 countries (representing 21 project partners) to share ...
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RapidAIM is now certified organic
We’re proud to announce that RapidAIM is now an SXC Certified Organic allowed input company! The organic market is currently booming in Australia, with the Woolworths Organic Growth Fund giving 30M to farmers, and other retailers such as Aldi expanding on their Organic range. What does this mean for organic growers? Growers that are certified organic can deploy our Digital Pest ...
By RapidAIM
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RapidAIM - keeping fruit fly out of the Yarra Valley
January was a busy month for us at RapidAIM as we deployed a further 100 new generation smart traps in the Yarra Valley for the Yarra Valley Growers Association, bringing the total number of fruit fly traps used by this programme to 140. This new deployment phase went smoothly, and is a testament of the trust that this customer has in the accuracy and reliability of our Digital Pest Surveillance ...
By RapidAIM
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Table grape growers using inventiveness to fight fruit fly
A TABLE GRAPE grower from Sunraysia has built a new rig that applies bait spray for fruit fly in an innovative attempt to reduce pest management costs on his farm. Peter Argiro and his family run a 100-hectare vineyard in Merbein, Victoria. He said foliar spraying each vine from the tractor was a timely and costly process, therefore he designed the new rig out of a necessity to find a faster ...
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Rolling out our new technology
We are partnering with Government and Industry to begin a new national fruit fly survelliance project. Grids of RapidAIM’s GenII Smart Traps will be installed at five national locations in Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. Hundreds of traps will be installed nation wide and monitored for the fruit growing season of 2018-19. The RapidAIM ...
By RapidAIM
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Shepparton field trial
In April 2017 we completed our first semi-commercial field trial comprising a grid of 80 traps across the Shepparton district. The field trial was done in collaboration with fifteen prominent growers and key agronomic stakeholders who now have the RapidAIM test-app with live updates of fruit fly activity and are empowered with data-on- demand to inform pest management. The community provided ...
By RapidAIM
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Science Protecting Plant Health 2017
In this plenary address, Dr Schellhorn uses examples from the literature, and a case study of QLD fruit fly, and silverleaf whitefly to examine the tools, technologies and transdisciplinary science to meet the challenges and achieve a successful AWM program of a pest incursion. Check out the recordings of the plenary below (Author – Brendan Trewin): https://youtu.be/hfKrb5vaiSg ...
By RapidAIM
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Fruit fly outbreak cost growers $4.1 million; could have been much worse
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences economists estimate the Oriental fruit fly outbreak last year caused at least $4.1 million in direct crop damages in Miami-Dade County, but the damage could have been far worse, UF/IFAS researchers say. In the new report, UF/IFAS researchers and the chief economist for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, ...
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Four in one – new discovery on pest fruit flies
Four of the world's most destructive agricultural pests are actually one and the same fruit fly, according to the results of a global research effort released today. The discovery should lead to the easing of certain international trade restrictions and also aid efforts to combat the ability of these harmful insects to reproduce, experts said. The so-called Oriental, Philippine, Invasive and ...
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HAL Project to Eradicate Fruit Fly in Western Australia
Western Australia could one day be fruit fly free with a new pilot program aiming to eradicate Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) in the state's southwest horticulture precinct. Regarded as one of the major fruit and vegetable pests in the world, Medfly is worth more than $200 million per annum in damages caused to susceptible crops in Western Australia and market access restriction. The outcome ...
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Senegal nears first victory in war on tsetse fly
A campaign against the tsetse fly, a pest that transmits a disease that devastates livestock, in the Niayes area near the capital Dakar has radically reduced the fly population and is paving the way for complete eradication. "Since the project started, there is already less disease. It has not only reduced the tsetse but also ticks, which cause lots of other diseases in the area. We have noticed ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Agrochemical Technologies Making Rapid Advancements
Agrochemical technology has huge potential for development as it shifts from solely providing crop yields for food and feed purposes to aiding the production of biomass used for renewable chemical production. Environmental concerns and government legislation to decrease chemical exposure to crops have spurred extensive research and development (R&D) activities, leading to rapid technological ...
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Sterile pest could do away with Bt cotton in Arizona
Farmers in Arizona, United States, have all but eradicated a major pest from their land using a combination of genetically modified cotton and billions of sterilised versions of the pest's parent moth. The farmers had been growing Btcotton for several years. The cotton is genetically engineered to produce Bt toxin, which kills pink bollworm, a serious cotton pest. Bt cotton had reduced the pest ...
By SciDev.Net
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Greek olive oils contain no harmful levels of pesticides
There are concerns that pesticides which make their way into food products can have harmful effects on health. However, Greek researchers have tested a range of olive oils for pesticide residues and concluded that levels were sufficiently low in these samples and do not pose a health risk. Olive oil production is a major agricultural activity in Mediterranean countries and a variety of ...
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