Session: The Sterile Insect Technique: Achievements and Challenges for Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 7:00 AM-11:00 AM

Room 206, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Rui Pereira
Kenneth A. Bloem
Marc J.B. Vreysen

7:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

7:05 AM

0625

Recent advances on Tephritid fruit fly research and development for improved Sterile Insect Technique application

Rui Pereira, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture; Andrew Parker, Joint FAO/IAEA Division; Andrew Jessup, Joint FAO/IAEA Division; Jorge Hendrichs, Joint FAO/IAEA Division; Peter E. A. Teal, USDA - ARS; Boaz Yuval, Department of Entomology, Hebrew University; Pablo Liedo, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; Todd Shelly, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST

7:25 AM

0626

The use of SIT to prevent exotic fruit fly establishment in the United States

Kevin Hoffman, California Department of Food and Agriculture; David Dean, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Edward Gersabeck, USDA

7:45 AM

0627

The medfly program in Guatemala and Mexico–multiple uses of the Sterile Insect Technique in a successful area wide control program

Terry McGovern, USDA-APHIS-IS; Estuardo Lira, USDA-APHIS-IS; Pedro Rendon, USDA - APHIS

8:05 AM

0628

The Sterile Insect Technique as a component of area-wide integrated pest management against selected tsetse fly populations in Africa: past successes and future prospects

Marc J.B. Vreysen, International Atomic Energy Agency; Udo Feldmann, International Atomic Energy Agency; Andrew Parker, International Atomic Energy Agency

8:25 AM

0629

Networks of habitat patches in tsetse fly control: implications of metapopulation structure on assessing local extinction probability

Steven L. Peck, Brigham Young University

8:45 AM

Break

9:00 AM

0630

Pest eradication with Sterile Insect Technique: approach and components of the screwworm eradication program

Robert L. Mangan, USDA-ARS; Donald B. Thomas, USDA-ARS; Raquel Courtois, Programa Gusano Barrenador; Javier Rojas, Programa Gusano Barrenador

9:20 AM

0631

Application of the Sterile Insect Technique as part of the eradication program against the cactus moth (Cactoblastis cactorum Berg.) in Mexico

Rebeca Gutierrez-Moreno, Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal, SENASICA-SAGARPA; Héctor Sánchez-Anguiano, Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal, SENASICA-SAGARPA

9:40 AM

0632

The role of the Sterile Insect Technique for eradication of pink bollworm in North America: achievements and remaining challenges

Gregory Simmons, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T; Colothdian Tate, USDA-APHIS-PPQ; Maria Sims, USDA-APHIS-PPQ

10:00 AM

0633

Fast-tracking sex to gain control: development of SIT as a tool against light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker)

Kenneth A. Bloem, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology; Gregory Simmons, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T

10:20 AM

Discussion

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