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TO OUR READERS

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the first TAAO Newsletter.

Starting in 2010 under the leadership of Abdel Bakri and Olivia Reynolds, the Tephritid workers of Asia, Australia and Oceania (TAAO) network was initiated to facilitate improved communication and collabora-tion among fruit fly workers across our region, much like our sister groups the ‘Tephritid workers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East’ (TEAM) and the Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH).

In 2014, a new team (page 13) assumed responsibility for growing the TAAO into the future, including the production of a regular newsletter that we hope will be an effective means to distribute news and events, an avenue to notify of upcoming training or research opportunities, and a chance to stay up to date with col-leagues across the region.

I therefore invite you to enjoy ‘Issue 01’, within which you will find notes on an assessment of recent trends in fruit fly management in eastern Australia (page 2), melon fly roosting behaviour in India (page 3), and some of the latest research from our colleagues in China (page 9), and other contributions.

I encourage readers to submit news for future issues. Please send all items for consideration to the editorial committee (page 14) by the end of June for the next issue. Importantly, while we all know the economic damage fruit flies inflict, we also seek news and contributions on general fruit fly biology, natural history, and basic research. As we all know, there’s more to tephritids than the damage they do!

And finally, the keen-eyed amongst you will notice that the TAAO has a new logo. Many thanks to Jaye Newman of the Fruit Fly Research Group based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane (Australia) for its production!

Mark Schutze (TAAO Steering Committee Chair)

Contents: Page No.

Review of recent trends in south eastern Australia 2

Roosting activity of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae) on pigeon pea 3

Attraction of fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata (Saunders)... 4

NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) and University of Western Sydney (UWS)... 5

Bait manufactured from beer yeast waste contributes to improved fruit fly control in the region 6-7

TAAO SC member Sandeep Singh participated in International Conference on Citriculture in Pakistan 8

Three new papers on fruit flies of economic importance by Chinese teams 9-10

Endeavour Executive Fellow 2014 11

Upcoming events and dates to remember 12

News- 1ST TAAO Meeting 12

NEWSLETTER Issue 01

March 2015

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 2

Review of recent trends in south eastern Australia

Bernie Dominiak

Plant Biosecurity

Industry & Investment NSW Australia

[email protected]

In the early 1990’s, regional management (including fruit fly freedom) of fruit fly was seen as better than individual farm management strategy. This spawned the formation of the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone (FFEZ) and subsequently the Sunraysia Pest Free Area. This regional strategy was largely successful in drier years for irrigated horticulture. However, as weather pat-terns shifted to more frequent wetter periods, the strategy became increasingly more costly to maintain. Following the wet years of 2010-2011, the FFEZ be-came technically impossible and economically unsus-tainable to maintain.

The legislation supporting the FFEZ was withdrawn and the FFEZ ceased to exist as such and changed operational mode in July 2013. These changing con-ditions have prompted the development of other standards, primarily the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) and the alignment of domestic trade standards with ISPMs. Towards that end, we intend to publish the standards for Areas of Low Pest Prevalence for Queensland Fruit Fly, hope-fully in 2015. Similarly a draft paper on Systems Ap-proach from Australian Fruit Flies will soon be sub-mitted for publication. Another paper in the final stages of preparation will advocate shorter quarantine distances and areas from outbreaks that are based on fruit fly biology. The principles in this second paper could be applied where the biology of any species is well known. Acceptance of these standards will de-pend on discussions in bi-lateral negotiations.

While regional pest management and pest freedom, particularly state sponsored, appears to be a less favoured approach, the issue of pest freedom re-mains. Nationally there is a need to clearly articulate,

in publications, the normal range or distribution of all fruit flies of economic concern. Many older publica-tions do that, at least in part; however, many trade partners are asking if these ranges have changed giv-en changes in weather patterns in some parts of Aus-tralia. As many existing reports are decades old, there appears to be a need to review these distributions and ranges in current publications and to redefine or reaf-firm species distribution. Associated with redefining distributions will be the recognition by trade partners that detections beyond the recognised range are only isolated incursions and not a genuine range extension.

Bernie Dominiak

All these changes will depend of sound research and science that is published. Usually, only peer reviewed publications can be used in bi-lateral negotiations. The changes mentioned above, relying on sound sci-ence, will take several years to flow through into international trade agreements and will generally re-quire a change in mind set from all parties. A classic example of good science and changing mind set is the recent acceptance by Australia on the amalgamation of some species in the Bactrocera dorsalis complex. Australia appears to be the first country to recognise the science and initiate this change. The challenge will be to see if other countries follow suit or even recognise Australia’s decision. Sound science and adapting to change will be the trade challenges for the next five years at least.


Roosting activity of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

on pigeon pea

Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar

Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology,

Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour-813210, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

A high frequency of activity of melon fly was ob-served on pigeon pea during Sep-Oct 2014 in a kitch-en garden at Bisai Bigha (Latitude 25.18o N, Longi-tude 85.30o E and Altitude 62 m AMSL), Nalanda, Bihar, India (Figure 1). Pigeon pea could be used as a roosting crop for melon fly management.

Pigeon pea as a trap crop for the melon fly could help in the improvement of bait application techniques and

reduce the load of insecticides on main crops, i.e. cu-curbits. Additionally, planting pigeon pea as a bor-dering crop will also help in the enhancement of soil fertility and nutritional security of poor and marginal farmers who cultivate cucurbits for their daily liveli-hood.

Figure 1. Different postures of adult melon flies roosting on pigeon pea. A & B: an adult female melon fly on the upper and undersurface of a leaf; C: an adult male melon fly on a pigeon pea leaf; D, E & F: a group of adult melon fly adults on the upper and undersurface of a leaf; G & H: melon fly adults mating on the under and upper surface of a leaf; and I: adult melon flies resting singly on the undersurface of each leaflet of a pigeon pea leaf


Attraction of fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata

(Saunders) to coloured PAU fruit fly traps on Kinnow mandarin in Punjab, India

Kavita Bajaj and Sandeep Singh*

Department of Fruit Science,

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 141004, Punjab, India

*[email protected]

Kinnow, a hybrid between King (Citrus nobilis Lour.) and Willow leaf (Citrus deliciosa Ten.) man-darins, is the prime citrus fruit of the Indian Punjab and occupies an area of 45.85 thousand ha with 9.88 lac metric tonnes produced per year. Among the vari-ous limiting factors, fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and B. zonata (Saunders) are the most im-portant insect-pests infesting Kinnow fruits as they cause up to 80 per cent fruit infestation due to a fa-vourable season and carryover of fruit flies from peach, pear, guava, mango, loquat, sapota, plum, phalsa, fig and some vegetable crops. These fruit flies are very difficult to manage as they are polyphagous, multivoltine, adults have high mobility and fecundity, and all the developmental stages are unexposed.

Figure 1. Yellow trap on Kinnow tree

Farmers have to spray various insecticides at weekly intervals for the management of fruit flies. Applica-tion of insecticides disrupts the ecosystem and causes numerous hazards. Thus, there is a need of eco-friendly techniques for fruit fly management. Among the various alternate strategies available for the man-agement of fruit flies, the use of methyl eugenol traps stands as the most outstanding. Methyl eugenol has

both olfactory as well as phagostimulatory action and is known to attract fruit flies from a distance of up to 800 m. Methyl eugenol, when used together with an insecticide impregnated into a suitable substrate, forms the basis of male annihilation technique (M.A.T.). This technique has been successfully used for the management of several Bactrocera species.

Adult fruit flies use visual and olfactory stimuli to locate hosts and the traps that combine visual and ol-factory cues proved to be the most efficient for cap-turing fruit flies. The responses of the fruit flies to visual stimuli are dependent on colour besides shape and size of the stimulus. Present studies were, there-fore, conducted on the attraction of fruit flies to dif-ferent coloured PAU fruit flies traps i.e. red, yellow, and green and compared with colourless PAU fruit fly trap (based on empty water bottle) in Kinnow or-chard in the Fruit Research Farm, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana during 2013-2014. A total of 16 traps/acre were used in this study. Coloured tape was rolled around each trap at three places i.e. neck, cen-tre and bottom of the trap. Four traps each, having red, yellow and green coloured tapes, were fixed in a 1 acre area, replicated thrice along with standard 4 PAU fruit fly traps as a control. The results revealed that the highest number of fruit flies was captured in yellow traps (Fig. 1) and the mean percentage of fruit fly damage was lower in yellow traps as compared to other coloured traps.

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NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) and University of Western Sydney (UWS) researchers investigating differences in gut Bacteria between wild and

artificial diet fed Queensland Fruit Flies [Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt)] and Larvae

Ania Deutscher

Plant Protection, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur

Agricultural Institute

Woodbridge Rd, Menangle NSW 2568 Australia

[email protected]

The Fruit Fly Production Facility (FFPF) at the NSW Department of Primary Industries Elizabeth Macar-thur Agricultural Institute (EMAI) in Menangle, NSW, Australia, currently mass-rears and supplies sterile Queensland fruit flies (Qflies) to programs around the country. The fruit flies from the facility, managed by Dr Solomon Balagawi, are used for ster-ile insect technique research and to help combat Qfly outbreaks. Research Fellow Dr Ania Deutscher and PhD student Deane Woruba are searching for bacteri-al probiotic candidates that will increase the competi-tiveness of sterile mass-reared male Qflies in the field and the fitness of the FFPF fruit fly colony.

In a project funded by Horticulture Innovation Aus-tralia Limited with coinvestment from the 'Traprock' growers and funds from the Australian Government, Ania, who is based at EMAI, has been extracting the intestines of facility-reared larvae and larvae from a range of Qfly infested fruit. Deane, a Plant Biosecuri-ty CRC scholarship student based at both EMAI and the University of Western Sydney (UWS), has been collecting wild Qflies from fruit orchards and rainfor-ests (Qflies are thought to have originated from rain-forests in far north Queensland (Qld)) throughout NSW and Qld. Within these projects, which are being performed in collaboration with Dr Olivia Reynolds and Dr Toni Chapman (both NSW DPI) and Associ-ate Professor Markus Riegler (UWS), the gut bacteria of the larvae and adults will be compared to the gut microflora of the FFPF (lucerne chaff diet) and labor-atory reared (carrot diet) larvae/flies using

16SrDNAamplicon next generation sequencing. Fol-lowing this, Deane and Ania will be able to determine the bacteria to be tested as possible larval and adult probiotic diets. This follows the first amplicon se-quencing analysis of the microbiome of field-caught and laboratory-adapted Qfly and related Australian fruit fly species with different host plant use and spe-cialization. This work was recently published by Dr Jennifer Morrow (UWS) and colleagues in Microbial Ecology (DOI 10.1007/s00248-015-0571-1).

Deane Woruba (right) and Stefano De Faveri (left) from the Queensland Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (QDAFF), Aus-

tralia, sampling mangoes from the QDAFF Southedge orchard Qfly sampling site


Bait manufactured from beer yeast waste contributes to improved fruit fly control in

the region

S. Vijaysegaran

School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sci-ences, Queensland University of Technology

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [email protected]

In Asia there are more than 7 different species of fruit flies that cause extensive damage and losses to yield ranging from 40-100 per cent across a wide range of fruit and vegetable crops. Farming communities and horticultural industries struggle to cope with these losses and what they desperately need is control tech-nology that is low cost, simple to apply, safe to users and the environment, and consistently effective and reliable.

Figure 1. Bait plant in Asia Pacific Breweries, Tien Giang province, South Vietnam

Figure 2. The processed bait being bottled

In response to this need, a novel control technique ut-lizing beer yeast waste to produce a bait, together with a low-volume spot spray application technique was conceived and developed in the mid 1980’s at the Ma-laysian Agricultural Research & Development Insti-tute. Subsequently, over the period 2002-2008,

through research projects in Vietnam funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Re-search (ACIAR), two plants to produce fruit fly bait from beer yeast waste have been established in collab-oration with local research agencies and breweries. One plant is located in the Mekong Delta, in Tien Giang province at Asia Pacific Breweries (formerly Fosters Brewery) and the other plant is located in the north at An Thinh brewery near Hanoi city. A third privately owned plant is located at Carlsberg brewery in Shah Alam, Malaysia. In these plants, beer yeast waste (spent yeast) is converted in a two-step process of heating to remove excess gas and water, and subse-quently enzyme treatment to complete autolysis of the yeast cells. The end product is a dark brown coloured liquid bait that contains proteins (12-18%), sugars (18- 25%), water and fruity fermentation odours, and is highly attractive to adult fruit flies in the field.

Figure 3. Raw yeast waste (right) and the processed bait (left)

Together, these 3 bait plants produce bait that is sold commercially and readily available to farmers in the region. In Vietnam, more than 10,000 farmers have been trained on bait use by the Southern Fruits Re-search Institute (SOFRI) and the Plant Protection Re-search Institute (PPRI) and the economic impacts have been highly significant. Farmers growing peach, plums, guava, sapota, mango and Barbados cherry have reported a 4-6 fold increase in incomes with the introduction of the spot spray beer yeast waste technology.


The bait plant in Malaysia supplies bait to Area-Wide control programs on gherkin in India and mango In-donesia that combine spot spray bait application with male annihilation (using methyl eugenol or cue lure soaked blocks) and crop hygiene. The level of control in the AWM programs has been very impressive with fruit damage reduced to less than 0.3 per cent in the gherkin industry in India and FTD maintained at less than 1 in the mango AWM zone in Indonesia. The bait control technology has also been adopted by the Asian Fruit Fly IPM project based at the Asian Insti-tute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.

Figure 4. Farmer training in Vietnam

Figure 5. Farmer applying bait to mango in Indonesia.

Figure 6. Peach fruits before bait sprays-100% fly damage at harvest.

Figure 7. After bait sprays- less than 4% damage at harvest.

The beer yeast waste bait spot spray technology has been used successfully against 7 species of pest fruit flies in Asia, viz. Bactrocera dorsalis (previously B. papayae), B carambolae, B. correcta, B. pyrifoliae, B. latifrons, B cucurbuitae and Dacus ciliatus. The technology has had a major impact in helping farmers in Asia successfully tackle their fruit fly problems, reduce yield losses and increase farm and household incomes.

Farmer training in groups of 25 - Vietnam


TAAO SC member Sandeep Singh participated in International Conference on

Citriculture in Pakistan

Sandeep Singh

Department of Fruit Science

Punjab Agricultural University,

Ludhiana, 141004, Punjab, India

[email protected]

Sandeep Singh, working as Assistant Entomologist in the Department of Fruit Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India and member of Steering

Figure 1. Sandeep Singh co-chairing session on Plant protection

Committee, TAAO participated in "International Conference on Citriculture: Challenges and Manage-ment" at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pa-kistan from February 11-13, 2015. The Conference was organized by the Department of Horticulture of the University. Singh presented his oral paper on “Eco-friendly management of fruit flies, Bactrocera spp. with spinosad based bait application techniques on Kinnow mandarin in India”.

Various technical sessions were held during the con-ference viz. Crop Management: Cultural Practices,

Figure 2. Sandeep Singh with scientists and students

Crop Management: Nutrition, Propagation and Nursery Management, Plant Protection, Post-Harvest Physiology & Supply Chain Management, and Ge-netics, Breeding and Biotechnology. More than 200 citrus scientists from Pakistan, India and China par-ticipated in this conference.

Singh was taken as member of international steering committee of the conference. He co-chaired session on plant protection. Singh was also member of poster evaluation committee for selection of best poster.



Zhihong Li Department of Entomology

College of Agronomy and Biotechnology China Agricultural University Beijing, 100193, P. R. China

[email protected]

Chinese scientists increasingly pay more attention on the studies of fruit flies, especially the economic im-portant species of genus Bactrocera. Three new pa-pers mainly by three Chinese teams were published (or are available online) successively in recent months; these papers focus on the invasive risk, ther-mal stress, and RNA interference of fruit flies, respectively.

The global establishment risk of economic important fruit flies was studied by Prof. Zhihong Li’s team (from China Agricultural University, Beijing) and in collaboration with Dr. Dean R. Paini (CSIRO). This paper was published by PLoS ONE on January 14,

2015. A global presence/absence dataset including 180 economically significant fruit fly species in 118 coun-tries was analyzed using a Self Organising Map (SOM). The ranked lists of establishment probability from six countries were selected from each continent (including China, Australia, Italy, South Africa, The United States, and Argentina) and were compared and contrasted in detail. Geographically close countries were clustered together by the SOM analysis, and these closely-clustered countries represented greater threats to each other as sources of invasive fruit fly species (Figure 1). This study exemplifies how the SOM method may be utilized as an initial screen to support prioritizing fruit fly species with respect to their invasion potential into a new region.

Three new papers on fruit flies of economic importance by Chinese teams


The comparative proteomic analysis of B. dorsalis (Hendel) in response to the thermal stress was researched by Prof. Jinjun Wang’s team from South-West University, Chongqing. This paper was made available online by Journal of Insect Physiology on February 3, 2015. This team performed a comparative proteome analysis using two-dimensional electrophoresis after exposing B. dorsalis to extreme low and high temperatures. Among the separated proteins, 51 diverse protein spots showed differences in response to extreme temperatures. Thirty-nine proteins were successfully identified using tandem mass spectrometry sequencing analysis, which included 13 oxidoreductases, 10 binding proteins, 5 transferases, and 2 each of lyases, isomerases, ligases, and developmental proteins. This study paves the way for further functional studies in the physiological mechanism related to thermal stress.

The third study focused on how the endocytic pathway mediates refractoriness of B. dorsalis to RNA interference, as studied by Prof. Hongyu Zhang’s team from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hu-bei province. This paper, published in Scientific Re-ports on March 3, 2015, showed that B. dorsalis be-came refractory to RNAi using orally administered dsRNA targeting endogenous genes. They discovered that the refractoriness to RNAi was not gene-specific, and that its duration depended on the dsRNA concentration. RNAi blockage required the endocytic pathway. Fluorescence microscopy indicated that dsR-NA uptake was blocked in RNAi refractory flies. Genes involved in the entry of dsRNAs into cells, including chc, cog3, light and others, were down-regulated in RNAi refractory flies. Increasing the endocytic capacity by improving F-actin polymeriza-tion disrupted RNAi refractoriness after both primary and secondary dsRNA exposures.

We are looking forward to more progress on the studies of fruit flies of economic importance in TAAO.

Li X. X., Dong X. L., Zou C., Zhang H. Y.. 2015. Endocytic pathway mediates refractoriness of insect Bactrocera dorsalis to RNA interference. Scientific Reports, 5:8700. doi:10.1038/srep08700.

Qin Y. J., Paini D. R., Wang C., Fang Y., Li Z. H.. 2015. Global establishment risk of economically important fruit fly species (Tephritidae). PLoS ONE, 10(1): e0116424. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116424.

Wei D., Jia F. X., Tian C. B., Tian Y., Smagghe G., Dou W., Wang J. J.. 2015. Comparative proteomic analysis of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) in response to thermal stress. Journal of Insect Physiology, 74:16-24.


Endeavour Executive Fellow 2014

Mahfuza Khan

Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radiation Biology, Atomic Energy Research

Establishment, Ganakbari, Savar, G.P.O. Box No. 1349, Dhaka-1000

Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission [email protected]

Mahfuza Khan, Principal Scientific Officer, Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radia-tion Biology, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commis-sion completed Australian Government ‘Endeavour Executive Fellowship’ 2014 on ‘Operational proce-dure of Queensland Fruit Fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) using environment friendly Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)’. She was hosted by Associate Pro-fessor Phillip W. Taylor, Discipline of Brain, Behav-iour and Evolution, Department of Biological Scienc-es, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Khan’s fellowship program also encompasses the visits to Q-fly Production Facilities, Department of Primary In-dustry (DPI), Ourimbah Campus, NSW and Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute (EMAI), DPI, Me-nangle, NSW.

Mahfuza Khan

In 2010, Mahfuza Khan carried out Endeavour Post-Doctoral Research under supervision of A/Prof. P. W. Taylor at Macquarie University on larval diets and the potential value of pre-release supplements for

improving the Sterile Insect Technique used to com-bat outbreaks of the Queensland fruit fly in Australia and other tephritids overseas.

Khan published three papers in good ranking interna-tional journals from her work during Endeavour Re-search Fellowship. First one on comparison of solid and liquid larval diets for mass rearing of Q-fly to overcome storage, handling and waste challenges of ‘solid’ diets using liquid larval diets. The second was on plant oils as supplements for liquid diet, and the third one on the relationship between pre-release ac-cess to autolyzed yeast as a dietary supplement and subsequent ability of flies to survive periods of acute starvation. All of these studies will be important con-tributions to Sterile Insect Technique as applied to the Queensland fruit fly in Australia. The three papers are available as:

Mahfuza Khan. 2013. Potential of liquid larval diets for mass rearing of Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera:Tephritidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 52: 268-276.

Taylor, P. W., M. Khan, S. R. Collins and O. L. Reynolds. 2013. Yeast hydrolysate supplement in-creases starvation vulnerability of Queensland fruit fly. Physiological Entomology 38(4): 337-343.

Mahfuza Khan. 2014. Effect of plant oils on quality parameters of Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) reared on liquid larval diet. Journal of Applied Entomology (doi:10.1111/jen.12154).

She also attended Endeavour Awards Professional Development Workshop and Networking Programs in Sydney, Australia during the Fellowship Programs’ 2010 and 2014.


UPCOMING EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

FAO/IAEA Regional Training Course on Free Open Source Software for GIS and Data Management Ap-plied to Fruit Flies in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (under Regional TC Project RER5020), 1–5 June 2015, Vienna, Austria

FAO/IAEA Interregional Training Course on The Use of the Sterile Insect and Related Techniques for the Integrated Area Wide Management of Insect Pests (under Interregional TC Project INT5151), 3–28 August 2015, Metapa de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico and Antigua/El Pino, Guatemala

FAO/IAEA Regional Training Course on Taxonomy and Identification of Fruit Fly Pest Species to the Southeast Asia (under Regional TC Project RAS5067), 7–11 September 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Workshop on Microbial and Processing Criteria for Industrial Production of Probiotics or Bacteria as Source of Protein to Improve Fruit Fly Quality and SIT Efficiency, 23-25 October 2015, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Regional training course on Taxonomy and Identifi-cation of Fruit Fly Pest Species for Southeast Asia

(under FAO/IAEA Regional TC Project RAS5067). 16-20 November 2015, Brisbane, Australia. Deadline for nominations 31 August 2015. See details in the IPCL Newsletter No.84 (pg. 28) for how to submit applications to attend FAO/IAEA training courses: http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/10850/Insect-Pest-Control-Newsletter-No-84-January-2015

3rd meeting of the Tephritid Workers of Europe, Afri-ca & the Middle East (TEAM 2016), 11-14 April 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa

9th meeting of the Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH 2016), tentatively October 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Meeting of the Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT), International Plant Protection Convention, FAO. 26-30 October 2016, Tohoku, Japan

10th International Symposium on Fruit Fly of Eco-nomic Importance (ISFFEI 2018), Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

News: 1st TAAO Meeting

1st Symposium of the Tephritid Workers of Asia, Australia and Oceania (TAAO 2016) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-19 August 2016.

MORE DETAILS COMING SOON

Tephritid Workers Database

(TWD) Tephritid Workers Database link:

http://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/default.aspx

Please keep your TWD profile updated to stay con-nected with the whole tephritid fruit fly community in the world.

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TAAO STEERING COMMITTEE

FIRST ROW L-R Mark Schutze School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia [email protected] Alvin Hee Department of Biology Faculty of Science Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia [email protected] Zhihong Li College of Agronomy and Biotechnology China Agricultural University Beijing, China [email protected] Tati Suryati Syamsudin School of Life Sciences & Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia [email protected] Sujinda Thanaphum Fruit Fly Molecular Genetic Laboratory Department of Biotechnology Faculty of Science Mahidol University, Ratchathewe Bangkok, Thailand [email protected] Suksom Chinvinijkul Department of Agricultural Extension Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Bangkok, Thailand [email protected]

SECOND ROW L-R Keng Hong Tan Tan Hak Heng, 20 Jalan Tan Jit Seng Tanjong Bungah Penang, Malaysia [email protected] Kenji Tsuruta Yokohama Plant Protection Station Yokohama Japan [email protected] Bonifacio Cayabyab Faculty of Crop Protection University of the Philippines Los Baños Philippines [email protected] Sandeep Singh Department of Fruit Science Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana 141004 Punjab, India [email protected] Phil Taylor Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia [email protected] Annastasia Kawi National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority P O Box 817 Kokopo East New Britain Province [email protected]













Editorial Committee

Mark Schutze School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia [email protected] Farzana Yesmin Radiation Entomology and Acarology Division Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box No. 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh [email protected] Hamish Patrick Bio-Protection Research Centre Burns 616 P O Box 85084 Lincoln University Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand [email protected] Md. Hasanuzzaman Agrochemical and Environmental Research Division Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box No. 3787 Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh [email protected]

Disclaimer: Articles submitted to TAAO Newsletter wholly represent the opinions and ideas of individual

contributors

TAAO NEWSLETTER

The TAAO Newsletter is produced by the TAAO editorial committee from contributions made by fruit fly workers from across the region encompassing Asia, Australia, and Oceania. While focused on this region, contributions are also welcome from tephritid workers. The newsletter is distributed electronically and free of charge to members of the TAAO mailing list. Please contact the editorial committee if you wish to be added or removed from this list, or if you have a note that you would like to contribute to future issues of the Newsletter. The newsletter can be downloaded from the TWD newsletters page: http://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/Newsletters.aspx





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