The #PestSurveyCard on Neoleucinodes elegantalis has been published:
➡️ link.europa.eu/pHPwFB
This moth infests the fruit of Solanaceae 🍅🫑
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The #PestSurveyCard on Spodoptera eridania, a highly polyphagous pest, is now available!🍅🥜🫑
➡️ link.europa.eu/vwqHVf
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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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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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The #PestSurveyCard on Liriomyza sativae is now available! 🪰
➡️ link.europa.eu/VMVX4T
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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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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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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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The #PestSurveyCard on Helicoverpa zea is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/GHgFVW
EFSA ranked Helicoverpa zea among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...
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📢 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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The #PestSurveyCard on Keiferia lycopersicella is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/NVtcVJ
EFSA ranked Keiferia lycopersicella among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...
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The #PestSurveyCard on Longidorus diadecturus is available here:
➡️ link.europa.eu/v8MgHG
This nematode can vector the peach rosette mosaic virus (PRMV), also a Union Quarantine pest, see:
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Two #PestSurveyCard are now available on nematodes of the Xiphinema americanum group:
➡️ link.europa.eu/jQk6pY
➡️ link.europa.eu/DYQBTB
These pests can transmit #viruses that are also regulated, see: bsky.app/profile/efsa...
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📢New EFSA Pest Survey Cards: Surveillance of regulated #viruses, #viroids and #phytoplasmas of Cydonia, Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Ribes, Rubus and Vitis in the EU
Here is the guide for using these pest survey cards🍎🍏:
link.europa.eu/TTpgVh
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The #PestSurveyCard on Diabrotica undecimpunctata undecimpunctata and Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/XVKmCp
EFSA ranked Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...
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Symptoms of melon yellowing-associated virus on melon plants. (a) Yellowing of leaves of field-grown plant. (b) Mottling and yellowing (arrows) on leaves of graft-inoculated plant. (c) Mature stage of yellowing symptom on leaves of inoculated plant (Source: Nagata et al., 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-010-0241-6).
📢New EFSA Pest survey card🔍
📖 The pest survey card on Melon yellowing-associated virus (MYaV) is now available.
It supports surveillance and early detection efforts to help protect plant health across the EU. 🌱
➡️ link.europa.eu/HWgq3H
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The #PestSurveyCard on Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/VhvHdX
EFSA assessed this pathogen as a EU candidate #PriorityPests:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...
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Symptoms and signs (pycnidia) caused by Phyllosticta spp. on leaves: A) tan spots with darker brown border, caused by Phyllosticta sp. on pawpaw (Asimina triloba) leaves; (B) leaf lesions with pycnidia of P. cotoneaster on Cotoneaster sp. Similar symptoms and signs are caused by P. solitaria on its hosts. Apple blotch symptoms caused by Phyllosticta arbutifolia, a taxon closely related to P. solitaria, on Malus domestica fruits: (C) blotchy lesions with pycnidia (red arrows), (D) reddish to brown blotches. (Sources: Source: Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, Bugwood.org (A, B, D); Cheryl Kaiser, University of Kentucky, Bugwood.org (D)).
📢The Pest Survey Card on #Phyllosticta solitaria is now live!
🔎Discover our interactive #StoryMap and gain insights into detection and delimiting surveys for this pest: link.europa.eu/VCvWj8
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Ring rot symptoms of Botryosphaeria dothidea on apples; similar symptoms are also caused by B. kuwatsukai (Source: University of Georgia Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org)
📖🔎 Have you explored the #EFSA Pest Survey Card gallery yet?
New Story Maps are now available — including one on Botryosphaeria kuwatsukai, a pathogen affecting apple and pear trees 🍎🍐
🔗 link.europa.eu/3wmR3g
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Adult of Sternochetus mangiferae. Source: Juliana Cardona-Duque, University of Puerto Rico, Bugwood.org
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) tree. Source: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org
#Sternochetus mangiferae feeds on #mangoes. Infested fruits can be identified by opening the seed longitudinally 🥭
🔎Learn more on the EFSA pest survey card: link.europa.eu/VxwvfJ
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Swollen, infected cone of Pinus spp. by Cronartium strobilinum (Source: USDA Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org)
(A) Telia of Cronartium coleosporoides on Castilleja sp. leaf; (B) telia of C. comandrae on Comandra sp. leaf; (C) telia of C. occidentale on Ribes sp. leaf; (D) telia of C. quercuum on Quercus sp. leaf (E) close-up view of telia of C. quercuum on Quercus sp. leaf. (Sources: USDA Forest Service – Northern and Intermountain Region, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org (A); USDA Forest Service – Forest Health Protection Intermountain Region – Ogden, UT, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org (B, C); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Quebec, Canada (D, E))
🌿The life cycle of fungi can be very complex
Take non-EU Cronartium spp.: these fungi complete their cycle either on Pinus spp. or on Pinus spp. and dicotyledonous plants.
Learn more about key aspects for EU surveillance:
🔗 link.europa.eu/pP4yJB
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🧫 #Neofusicoccum laricinum is a fungal pathogen that affects larch and Douglas fir.
🌲 Learn how to survey this pathogen, a threat to EU forests:
🔗 link.europa.eu/xR8QVP
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Disease cycle of palm lethal yellowing phytoplasmas and life cycle of their vector, Haplaxius crudus (Source: Luka Mustapic, created in BioRender.com https://app.biorender.com/)
🌴 Do you know the quarantine pests that are threatening #palms?
Palm lethal yellowing #phytoplasmas and the insect #HaplaxiusCrudus are among them.
📖Learn about their detection strategies in the EFSA Story Map:
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Damage to fruits by Grapholita spp.: (A) damaged apple fruit with frass ejection of G. inopinata; (B) larva and frass of G. inopinata inside an apple; C) blossom end of apple fruit showing typical injury with frass ejection of G. prunivora; D) larva of G. prunivora in the fruit of Crataegus holmesiana (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Evgeny Akulov (A–B), New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Bugwood.org (C); P.J. Chapman, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Bugwood.org (D)).
Three species of #Grapholita are Union quarantine #pests in the EU
🔎Take a look at the EFSA pest survey card to learn how to perform risk-based surveys for these pests!
🔗 link.europa.eu/dmwCmR
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Cysts of: Margarodes capensis (A), Margarodes trimeni (B), Margarodes greeni (C) and Margarodes vredendalensis (D). (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij (South Africa) (A-C); C.A. de Klerk, Nietvoorbij Institute for Viticulture and Oenology, Bugwood.org (D)).
❓ What’s in this picture?
These are Margarodidae – also known as ground pearls. They can survive in the soil for long periods as resilient cysts.
🔎Learn more and explore their Pest Survey Cards: link.europa.eu/g8mWH9 and link.europa.eu/kp3Yhj
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Symptoms and signs of Pseudocercorspora pini-densiflorae (yellowish bands and black stomata) on a 2-years-old seedling on Pinus thunbergii
🌲 #Pseudocercospora pini-densiflorae is a pathogen of conifers, impacting both urban and forest ecosystems.
🔎 Early detection is essential to prevent spread and mitigate ecological and economic impacts.
EFSA #StoryMap 🔗 link.europa.eu/bWC3cG
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Vineyards (Vitis spp.) (Source: Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org)
Different life stages of Daktulosphaira vitifoliae: (A) eggs, (B) larva on root of grapevine, (C) female with eggs and (D) adult (Sources: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institute für Pflanzenschutz im Weinbau (DE) (A); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Denis Kasatkin (B, C); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Jean-François Germain, Plant Health Laboratory, Montpellier (FR) (D)).
🔎Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, commonly known as grapevine #phylloxera, is an invasive #pest of #grapevines and a protected zone quarantine pest in Cyprus.
📖Explore the newly published EFSA interactive Story Map: link.europa.eu/F4Y8Pd
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Adult of Carposina sasakii (Source: Mark Dreiling, Bugwood.org)
Apple fruit infested by Carposina sasakii. Oozing produced by larval penetration into the fruit can be observed (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Zhiwei Zhang (College of Forestry, Shanxi Agricultural University, China))
📢The Pest Survey Card on #Carposina sasakii is now live!
🔎Discover our interactive #StoryMap and gain insights into detection and delimiting surveys for this pest: link.europa.eu/9yVJy7
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(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
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