Surveys of non-EU Cicadomorpha vectors of Xylella fastidiosa Updated 19 March 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects. Host plants: broadleaved trees, citrus, coniferous trees, grape, nuts, olive, ornamentals, stone fruits, other. Regulation: quarantine pests.

A guide has been published to support the use of two #PestSurveyCard on the non-EU Cicadomorpha vectors of #Xylella fastidiosa:

➡️ link.europa.eu/dhBkfm

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#leafhopper
#Treehopper
#spittlebug

📢 EFSA Methodology to estimate pest survey parameters for detection surveys is now available, supporting statistically sound and risk-based survey design for plant pests.

🔗 EFSA Methodology Report: tinyurl.com/2sja475e

#PlantHealth
#PestSurveillance
#PriorityPests

Melampsora farlowii Updated 22 May 2025 (Version 1). Taxonomy: fungi (MELMFA). Host plants: coniferous trees. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The EFSA #PestSurveyCard on #Melampsora farlowii, the casual agent of leaf and twig rust of hemlocks, is available in the EFSA gallery:
🔍🌲 link.europa.eu/wnG9Tv

#PlantHeath
#Surveillance

The #PestSurveyCard on Thrips palmi is now available!

➡️ link.europa.eu/pvkvwN

EFSA ranked Thrips palmi among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:

➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...

#Thripidae

NEW - Ceratothripoides claratris Updated 09 March 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects (CRTZCL). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: quarantine pests.

In the EFSA #PestSurveyCard gallery, the card on Ceratothripoides claratris is now available 🍅:

➡️ link.europa.eu/7prydY

#Thripidae

The EFSA #PestSurveyCard on #Mycodiella laricis-leptolepidis, the causal agent of needle cast of Japanese #larch, is available in the EFSA gallery🌲:
link.europa.eu/RfWHfG

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The #PestSurveyCard on #Meloidogyne enterolobii has been published.
Check out how to perform surveys for this root-knot nematode species🔍: link.europa.eu/T9PWCb

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Phytophthora ramorum (non-EU isolates) Updated 18 November 2025 (Version 1). Taxonomy: fungi (PHYTRA). Host plants: broadleaved trees, coniferous trees, ornamentals. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The EFSA Pest Survey Card on #Phytophthora ramorum (non‑EU isolates) is available as an interactive StoryMap.

🌲Have a look at this key resource supporting harmonised surveillance across the EU🔍: link.europa.eu/NhFkHJ

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NEW - Neoleucinodes elegantalis Updated 09 March 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects (NEOLEL). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on Neoleucinodes elegantalis has been published:

➡️ link.europa.eu/pHPwFB

This moth infests the fruit of Solanaceae 🍅🫑

#PlantHealth

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EU priority pest Dendrolimus sibiricus. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Training course on Plant health surveillance for improving Crisis preparedness in Plant Health promoted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in collaboration with academic experts

#PlantHealth #EFSA #Webinars
🚨 Calling all plant health professionals!
Join us for our webinar on the EU priority pest Dendrolimus sibiricus, part of our #PlantHealth Surveillance training series.
Date: 13 May 2026
Time: 10:00 A.M.
✍️ Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EU priority pest Conotrachelus nenuphar . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Training course on Plant health surveillance for improving Crisis preparedness in Plant Health promoted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in collaboration with academic experts

‪‬#PlantHealth #EFSA #Webinars
🚨 Calling all plant health professionals!
Join us for our webinar on the EU priority pest Conotrachelus nenuphar, part of our #PlantHealth Surveillance training series.
Date: 22 April 2026
Time: 03:00 P.M.
✍️ Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

EFSA Plant pest surveillance toolkit EFSA Plant pest surveillance toolkit

#PlantHealth #EFSA #Webinars
🚨 Calling all plant health professionals!
Join EFSA webinars on designs of priority pest surveys:
✅ 22 April – Conotrachelus nenuphar
✅ 13 May – Dendrolimus sibiricus
Catch up on past sessions via EFSA’s YouTube & EU Academy
👉 academy.europa.eu/courses/efsa...

NEW - Spodoptera eridania Updated 26 February 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects (PRODER). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables, other. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on Spodoptera eridania, a highly polyphagous pest, is now available!🍅🥜🫑

➡️ link.europa.eu/vwqHVf

#PlantHealth

The #PestSurveyCard on Prodiplosis longifila is now available!

➡️ link.europa.eu/BHTq8p

EFSA ranked Prodiplosis longifila among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:

➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...

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#PlantHealth
#cecidomyiidae

NEW - Liriomyza bryoniae, L. huidobrensis and L. trifolii Updated 03 March 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects (LIRIBO, LIRIHU, LIRITR). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: protected zone pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on Liriomyza bryoniae, L. huidobrensis and L. trifolii is now available! 🪰

➡️ link.europa.eu/t9jqdf

These #leafminers are protected zone quarantine pests in Ireland and Northern Ireland (UK)

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NEW - Liriomyza sativae Updated 02 March 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: insects (LIRISA). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on Liriomyza sativae is now available! 🪰
➡️ link.europa.eu/VMVX4T

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#leafminers
#PlantHealth

Life cycle of Nemorimyza maculosa (Source: courtesy of Luka Mustapić, created with BioRender.com (https://app.biorender.com/))

Damage caused by Nemorimyza maculosa: A) Feeding/oviposition punctures on leaf surface by adult B) Meandering leaf mine on the left side of a chrysanthemum leaf and the older expanded blotch mine on the right and C) Expanded blotch mine on lettuce (Sources: Luke Smith, iNaturalist (A), Antonio D. González Hernández, Dept. of Agriculture of the Government of the Canary Islands (B, C)).

The EFSA #PestSurveyCard on #Nemorimyza maculosa is available on the EFSA gallery 🪰⬇️
link.europa.eu/9djJyW

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#PlantHealth
#leafminers
#Agromyzidae

Group photo of EFSA Plant Health Panel members and European Commission representatives standing together at EFSA headquarters, with EU and EFSA flags in the background and Pesty, the Plant Health for Life mascot, at the centre.

EFSA Plant Health Panel members and colleagues sharing a light moment indoors as Pesty, the Plant Health for Life mascot, is tossed in the air during the plenary meeting.

🌱 Great energy at EFSA’s 140th Plant Health Plenary!

Experts and partners came together to discuss plant health priorities, the Plant Health for Life campaign and what’s coming next — with Pesty adding a playful touch to the moment. 💚

www.efsa.europa.eu/en/plh4l

#PlantHealth #PlantHealthForLife

NEW - Lettuce infectious yellows virus Updated 09 February 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: viruses (LIYV00). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables . Regulation: quarantine pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on lettuce infectious virus, another virus transmitted by #Bemisiatabaci, is available on the EFSA Gallery:
➡️ link.europa.eu/jcvYhD

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NEW - Squash vein yellowing virus Updated 09 February 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: viruses (SQVYVX). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: quarantine pests.

The #PestSurveyCard on squash vein yellowing virus is now available.
This virus is transmitted by the whitefly #Bemisiatabaci.
Learn more here:
➡️ link.europa.eu/PVjp6B

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Fit‐for‐purpose risk assessment for low‐concern active substances and uses This report describes a harmonised, stepwise methodology for the fit-for-purpose risk assessment of low-concern active substances (LCASs), developed in response to EFSA's call GP/EFSA/PLANTS/2023/04....

👀 Missed our scientific report on environmental #RiskAssessment of low-concern substances?

It presents a fit-for-purpose approach for pesticides, with a stepwise method and a toolbox to ensure assessments are proportionate, transparent, and protective of nature.

🔗 doi.org/10.2903/sp.e...

Did you ever visited our #dashboard on #horizonscanning results of the month? We perform #webscraping on #EIOS about #EmergingThreats for #EU #PlantHealth and curate results. It is freely accessible and we would be more than happy to collect feedbacks on the tool! www.efsa.europa.eu/en/powerbi/p...

Apple scab.a stack of apples with apple scab disease and Fruits

A step forward for sustainable pest control 🌱

We’ve published a protocol to standardise how emergency approvals for fungicides & bactericides are evaluated—ensuring consistency and proper consideration of sustainable alternatives.

efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/...

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The #PestSurveyCard on Helicoverpa zea is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/GHgFVW

EFSA ranked Helicoverpa zea among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:
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🌿Registration deadline extended for the #Xylella conference

You now have until 23/3/2026 to register & submit abstracts for the 5th European Conference on 𝘟𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢

Meet experts in detection, epidemiology, & sustainable management in Bari, 22–26/6/26

✍️ link.europa.eu/8y8wY7

#PlantHealth

NEW - Tomato marchitez virus and tomato chocolàte virus Updated 09 February 2026 (Version 1). Taxonomy: viruses (TOANV0, TOCHV0). Host plants: fruit-bearing vegetables. Regulation: quarantine pests.

📢 A new EFSA #PestSurveyCard on viruses of #Solanaceae is now available.

🍅 Learn more about surveys targeting #TomatoMarchitezVirus and #TomatoChocolateVirus

➡️ link.europa.eu/3XfhRC

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Symptoms of eggplant mild leaf mottle virus in aubergine: (A) mild green mottling on the apical leaf of an aubergine plant (Solanum melongena) naturally infected with EMLMV. (B,C,D) Blistering and deformation of fruits collected from naturally infected. (E) A heap of EMLMV‐infected aubergine fruits. (F) Aubergine field heavily infected with EMLMV (Source: Dombrovsky et al., 2013 (https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12004), modified)

EFSA’s #PestSurveyCard on Tomato Mild Mottle Virus ( #TMMoV) is now available in the Pest Survey Card gallery.

🌐Visit the interactive #StoryMap to learn more about surveys for this EU-quarantine virus: link.europa.eu/b6kJjx

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#CPM20 IPPC @fao.org : Seeds are among the most important aid provided by the FAO and other organisations in the event of a #HumanitarianCrisis. It is crucial to prevent the phytosanitary risks associated with the emergency distribution of this aid.

This morning at the plenary session of the #CPM-20, organised by the International #PlantProtection Organisation #IPPC
and hosted at @fao.org premises.
agenda here www.ippc.int/en/commissio...
most of the sessions are webstreamed

#webinars #capacitybuilding #PlantHealth #PlantPests #containers

EFSA is co‑organising the BTSF training in Lisbon. Participants are actively working with EFSA’s Pest Surveillance Toolkit to strengthen plant‑health monitoring across the EU. A productive conclusion to an intensive workshop!
#btsf #EFSA