Naliny Feliu Rajasombat

(A) Egg, (B) larva, and (C) pupa in a saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia) fruit and (D) adult of Anthonomus quadrigibbus (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Joseph Moisan-De Serres, MAPAQ, Canada (A-D))

Examples of natural and human assisted-spread of Anthonomus quadrigibbus (Sources: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org (background); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Joseph Moisan-De Serres, MAPAQ, Canada (A. quadrigibbus adult); Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org (apple fruits).

📢 New Pest Survey Card: #AnthonomusQuadrigibbus

This weevil is a pest of #fruit trees including apples, pears, and sour cherries 🍎🍐🍒.

Explore our interactive #StoryMap to learn more about detection strategies:

🔗 link.europa.eu/YgnGVY

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork

22.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Gaza faces a grave risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators reach their worst levels since the conflict began, warns @theipcinfo.bsky.social.

@fao.org, @unicef.org & @wfp.org call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access.

buff.ly/Wan1sJL

30.07.2025 18:31 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Female. From EPPO (2025). Courtesy: Natalia Kirichenko, Sukachev Institute of Forest, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

EFSA (2025)

EFSA (2025)

Egg mass on Larix sibirica. From EPPO (2025). Courtesy: Natalia Kirichenko, Sukachev Institute of Forest, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

🌱 New EFSA Pest Report!

📄 #Dendrolimus #sibiricus 👉 efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/...

EFSA’s scientific support for ranking candidate #PriorityPests.

📊 EFSA assessed 46 pests, focusing on:
✔️ Lag period
✔️ Spread
✔️ Impact on crops and environment

#EFSA #PlantHealth #ScienceToPolicy

18.06.2025 08:06 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

🌱 EFSA Plant Pest Surveillance Network is hosting its 5th meeting today and tomorrow at EFSA headquarters! Experts are coming together to strengthen plant health surveillance across Europe. Let’s protect our crops and ecosystems! 🌍 #PlantHealth #EFSA #SurveillanceNetwork

23.04.2025 08:03 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An arranged collage of sketches by Trevithick, including the corner of a written page of notes. In the centre is a sketched book plate showing laboratory equipment and a microscope against the backdrop of an image of fungi. Above the image it reads 'Carpe Fungum' and below the image 'Ex Libris A H R Buller'. The top left collage is occupied by a black-and-white sketch of a Magpie Moth.

A notebook containing handwritten notes on lectures. One of the sections is titled 'The Mechanical Action of Rain' and goes into detail about the geological effects.

Recently, we came across this treasure trove again: notebooks and sketches by William Edward Trevithick (1899-1958), a gardener turned botanical illustrator and artist 🌱🖌️

He would end up contributing around 60 plates to Curtis's Botanical Magazine.

#KewLA #Archives #SciArt

24.04.2025 16:08 — 👍 39    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Great day yesterday presenting EFSA’s work on #PlantHealth and #Pesticide risks to UC Louvain Master’s students, together with Giuseppe Stancanelli, Alex Gobbi, Francesca Salinari, Naliny Feliu, and Laura Padovani. The session was followed by a technical visit to the organic vineyard Vigna Cunial 🍇

16.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Another #webinar alert! 🌳 This time we’re focusing on planning multi-pest #surveys in mixed #broadleaved forests

19.02.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exciting times ahead! 🌿 Kicking off the year with our first online Pest Survey Methods WG meeting. You can see we are thrilled to be back together collaborating on improving plant pest surveillance. Soon more to come! #PlantHealth

28.01.2025 13:41 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

📚🐝 Discover the new book on the bees of Portugal!

The book "Chaves Dicotómicas dos Genneros de Abelhas de Portugal" has been published by the UC Press.

Coordinated by Hugo Gaspar from the FLOWer Lab, you can download the book in here (in PT): monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...

22.01.2025 14:23 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

🌱 The #EFSA Plant Pest Surveillance Toolkit webinar series wrapped up with our 3rd session on #OptiPest for multi-pest survey optimization! 🐞 Missed it? Catch up here: youtu.be/_dJbmH9NnyM?... Also, explore all materials on EU Academy: academy.europa.eu/courses/efsa-plant-pest-surveillance-toolkit

24.01.2025 09:57 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula)

We're excited to announce our new @efsa.europa.eu thematic account dedicated to #PlantHealth
we will speak about #PlantPests, #PestRiskAssessment and the outputs of our activity on this topic

@fao.org
@ec.europa.eu
@epponews.bsky.social
@euenvironment.bsky.social
@euagroforestry.bsky.social

20.12.2024 08:55 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2