LIFE eGymer meets LIFE OAK Processionary On Monday 12/08/2024 the two LIFE projects co-created a Webinar on the importance and outcomes of the applications that took place. 3 presentations were given by Professor C. Athanassiou (University of Thessaly), Dr. L. Crevecoeur (Provincie Limburg) and researcher S. Vasilopoulos (University of Thessaly) followed by an extensive discussion by all participants. This was… Read More »WEBINAR
Various deployments are taking place at the moment within the 3 countries involved in trap application. Below, some recents ones with initial results. On June 2 2022 the pheromone traps G-Trap, eGymer 1 trap and eGymer 2 trap (White funnel) were first set at location Ginjevec (46.626549; 16.349476) in NE Slovenia. Previously, during the third inspection (May 27 2022) of trunk traps San San and… Read More »Pheromone traps in Slovenia
An entire village in Rethymno, Crete, is under “siege”, with the residents no longer able to deal with the caterpillars attacking them alone and asking for the immediate intervention of the state. More info here
On Wednesday 11 May, 2022, Dr Maria Boukouvala delivered Laboratory lectures to her undergraduate AUA students, in the frame of the lesson “Pests of stored-products and urban areas”, about the identification of family Erebidae and Lymantria dispar. Dr. Boukouvala explained to students the objectives of Life eGYMER project. Dr. Boukouvala also showed some of the pheromone traps (commercial and prototypes) that… Read More »Lectures in AUA on LIFE eGYMER
Prof. Nickolas G. Kavallieratos added in his ResearchGate account details about the Life eGymer project. You can find the full text here
At the 15th Slovenian Conference on Plant Protection with International Participation (1-2 March 2002, Portorož), an event at which 84 oral presentations and 50 posters were presented, considerable attention of about 330 participants has received the poster presentation “Non-chemical control of Lymantria dispar in different European countries by using traps and pheromones” by Agrafioti et al. This is the first… Read More »LIFE eGYMER at the15th Slovenian Conference on Plant Protection
LIFE eGYMER project will be presented in a scientific meeting during the15th Slovenian Conference on Plant Protection with international participation, which will be held in Portorož (Slovenia) between March 01 and 02. A poster of the eGYMER project will be projected and attendees will be informed on its scope, objectives and current status. More information on the scientific conference can… Read More »First presentation of LIFE eGYMER project
Yesterday, the 2nd of February 2022, the LIFE eGYMER coordinator, Christos Athanassiou, had a telco with the responsible team for the LIFE Oak Processionary project in Belgium. As the two projects have similar targets, the potential of joint actions (such as webinars) and synergies was discussed. It was also agreed to commonly promote each other’s work through the project websites.… Read More »Contact with the LIFE Oak Processionary project
Τhe main concept of our project with the purpose, aims and general information has been uploaded onto the central website of the Agricultural University of Athens Environmental problem Lymantria dispar (L.) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) is an endemic species that infects oak forests in Central and Southern Europe, Asia and Africa. It creates a major environmental problem as it can destroy entire… Read More »eGymer at the website of AUA
It looks like that the major part of Slovenian field experiments will beperformed at north-eastern Slovenia. Tanja Bohinc and Stanislav Trdan(University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty) have found new areas with eggclusters of the gypsy moth, in a deciduous forest near village Pince-Marof and lessthan 1 km away from the border with Hungary. Location (46.51395, 16.52062) iscalled Murska šuma. Egg clusters were… Read More »New area with gypsy moth occurrence in north-eastern Slovenia