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Integrated Pest Management of the invasive Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica

Descrizione del progetto

Una nuova app per monitorare l’invasione di coleotteri giapponesi in Europa

Il coleottero giapponese (Popillia japonica), uno degli insetti più invasivi del Nord America, è una delle principali minacce per centinaia di specie di piante. Questa grave piaga dell’agricoltura, dell’orticoltura, del tappeto erboso e del paesaggio rappresenta un rischio per la salute delle piante in Europa. Introdotta accidentalmente nell’Europa continentale nel 2014, è in grado di trasferirsi e stabilirsi rapidamente in un’ampia gamma di climi diversi. Il progetto IPM-Popillia, finanziato dall’UE, fornirà strumenti di monitoraggio veloci e affidabili e uno strumento di scienza dei cittadini basato su app per massimizzare l’impegno e la consapevolezza del pubblico nei confronti di questo parassita invasivo. Un kit di strumenti ecologico concepito da IPM-Popillia fornirà metodi per controllare i coleotteri giapponesi nella zona infestata e ai margini del loro attuale perimetro di espansione.

Obiettivo

The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, is one of the worst invasive pests of North America. Costs to control the pest in the US exceed $450 million per year. P. japonica was detected near Milano in 2014, and is now starting to spread in Europe. It is an enormous threat to Europe, since (1) it can feed on more than 300 host plants, including many important crops, (2) it is a good flyer and can be relocated via movement of goods and people, (3) climate suitability puts at risk an area ranging from the Atlantic to the Black Sea, and from the Mediterranean to Great Britain and Southern Scandinavia. EFSA and the JRC of the European Commission nominated P. japonica a candidate high priority pest in the EU in the new EU Plant health Law.
IPM-Popillia has the aim to counteract this invasion. The project will provide fast and reliable monitoring tools, including an app-based citizen science approach to rise public awareness. Its main deliverable will be an IPM-Toolbox for control of P. japonica, relying exclusively on environmentally friendly control measures. Several teams of the consortium will collaborate in the core of the recent outbreak area, doing practical research in an European environment that can be applied immediatedly. The ambition of IPM-Popillia is to show that it is possible to control the new pest, and meet the requirements of quarantine regulations, and at the same time respect the environment and the principles of the sustainable use directive.
IPM-Popillia will provide an integrated pest management strategy against P. japonica at a very early timepoint of the invasion process. So far, the new pest is still confined to one single and comparatively small area of about 6’000 square kilometres on mainland Europe. This timeliness is exceptional when compared to previous invasions into Europe, and will significantly enhance chances for successful containment, provided that the starting signal is given NOW.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-SFS-2019-2

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 292 350,00
Indirizzo
Bundeshaus Ost
3003 Bern
Svizzera

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Regione
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Espace Mittelland Bern / Berne
Tipo di attività
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 292 350,00

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