IPC Publications

IPC Scientific Papers 2018

IPC Scientific Papers 2018

“The Dashboard” for Managers of Sterile Insect Technique Production Facilities

The Dashboard is composed of an Excel spreadsheet and a graphic display. It has been designed primarily for managers and staff as a working tool to monitor insect mass-rearing operations at production facilities. This mass-rearing metrics allows managers to follow their daily production performance in a Dashboard format. Monitoring operation activities helps to quickly identify production problems, take corrective actions, and measure their impact on improving processes and planning.

Mosquitoes SIT trifold

The document contains in a nutshell a description of SIT use against mosquitoes from mass rearing to sterilization and release. It also contains basic elements necessary for the cost-effective application of area-wide SIT technology against mosquitoes vectors of disease. Vienna, Austria (April 2018).

Manual para diferenciar moscas de Anastrepha ludens (Loew) silvestres

This manual includes standardised and updated procedures to determine the fertility or sterility of irradiated adults of wild and genetic sexing Anastrepha ludens strains. Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria (January 2018).

Trapping Guideline for Area-Wide Fruit Fly Programmes

Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria (January 2018)

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 90, January 2018

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 90, January 2018

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2017

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2017

Fruit Sampling Guidelines for Area-Wide Fruit Fly Programmes (2017)

These guidelines are aimed at facilitating the transfer of harmonized sampling procedures to National Plant Protection Organizations and horticultural industry of FAO and IAEA Member States that want to apply fruit sampling procedures for fruit fly population survey in area-wide action programmes. Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria, (June 2017).

Success Stories from Africa in facts and figures

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 89, July 2017

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 89, July 2017

IPC Scientific Papers 2017

IPC Scientific Papers 2017

Development of a protocol for the planning and implementation of a pilot trial using the sterile insect technique against codling moth in selected European target areas

This document include guidelines on the collection of baseline data of wild codling moth populations in the selected trial locations and provides a general pilot trial procedure and the country-specific recommendations. Vienna, Austria, February 2017.

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 88, January 2017

Insect Pest Control Newsletter No. 88, January 2017

Guideline for packing, shipping, holding and release of sterile flies in area-wide fruit fly control programmes

This guideline is an updated version of the one published in 2007. It is aimed at providing harmonized processes involved in the handling and release of sterile insects after production in mass rearing facilities to FAO or International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member countries that want to embark on sterile insect technique (SIT) activities. Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria (August 2017). ISBN 78-92-5-109891-2.

Guidelines for mature tsetse sterile male pupae packaging for long distance shipment

Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria (May 2017).

Guidelines for routine colony maintenance of Aedes mosquito species - Version 1.0

This guideline aims to provide a description of procedures required for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus colony routine rearing. It is a summary of necessary steps such as optimizing climatic conditions in the insectary, egg hatching, larval rearing, pupal and larval sorting, sugar and blood feeding, egg collection, handling and storage, used at the FAO/IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL) to build and maintain a lab colony. Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria, (November 2017).

Guidelines for standardised mass rearing of Anopheles mosquitoes - Version 1.0

The guideline provides a description of all procedures required for the mass-rearing of An. arabiensis using these newly designed adult cage and larval rearing unit, with a step-by-step guide to establishing, up-scaling and maintaining a large Anopheles colony, including all stages of the mosquito’s life cycle. Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria, (October 2017).

Technical specification for an X-ray system for the irradiation of insects for the sterile insect technique and other related technologies

Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. IAEA, Vienna, Austria (August 2017).

Third FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-wide Management of Insect Pests: Integrating the Sterile Insect and Related Nuclear and Other Techniques

The Conference was held from 22 - 26 May 2017 at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. The successful conference was attended by 360 delegates from 81 countries, six international organization, and nine exhibitors.

In Action: Nuclear applications in agriculture. On-the-ground success Part III