PDIS Demonstration and Workshop

^New The notes from this workshop are available to all at http://www.sepdn.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=22.

 

 

^NEW Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (biotype ‘Q’): A potential new biotype for Florida’s vegetable and ornamental crops. (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae): 

In March 2005, Drs. Judy Brown, Tim Dennehy (University of Arizona) and Dr. Frank Byrne (University of California) independently identified the ‘Q’ strain of Bemisia tabaci on poinsettia plants some months ago that originated from a nursery in California. This is the first time this particular strain has been found in the United States. The Q-biotype is thought to have originated from the Mediterranean region and has been associated with whitefly control problems. This strain is known to have resistance to pyriproxyfen (Horowitz et al. 2003), buprofezin and reduced susceptibility to the neonicotinoid insecticides imidicloprid, acetamiprid and thimethoxam.  More information can be found at http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/b.tabaci.html.

 Contributed by Amanda Hodges

 

Online Updates

In order to assist training session organizers and participants, several changes have been made to the NPDN training & education website.  All future and past First Detector training sessions that have occurred since the development of online training session and participant registration are currently available at:  http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/ .  Participant information should be entered in at this website, next to the appropriate session.  Training session organizers are responsible for ensuring that their participant information is entered correctly.  The training and participant registration form are still relatively new systems, so please let us know if you are having any problems.  For questions or concerns, please contact Amanda Hodges achodges@ifas.ufl.edu .

 

      You may now directly e-mail session organizers with questions from the training  session website at:  http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/  Look for the "e-mail the organizer" column.

      Are you a session organizer that would like to receive an e-mail list of the participants in your session?  Click here: v . 

     Are you a session organizer that would like to update/delete participants from your session? Click here:  http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/  Both of these pages require that you enter your session information into the webpage, and both can be linked to from the NPDN training & education page.  Note:  this page should only be used for session organizers.  An e-mail will automatically be sent to the session organizer with the participant list, upon submission of this request.

 

Upcoming First Detector Trainings

 

Note:  First Detector planning to attend these trainings should register in advance for this sessions on the NPDN educational modules page at:  http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/ .  For questions about content of individual sessions, please contact your session organizer.

 

National Events

 

SPDN Events

First Detector training in conjunction with Florida State Agricultural Response Team (SART) program will be conducted in Belle, Glade, FL on April 21, and in Tallahassee, FL, on May 19.  In addition to registering for the session on the NPDN training & education website, you should visit the SART website at:  http://www.flsart.org/ .  More information specific to other events at the SART training is available at:  http://www.flsart.org/calendar/sarttraining.htm .  The overall SART meeting has a registration at this site, and registration is free.