IPMG researcher Francisco Tovar recently attended the "3rd combined Australian and New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference" held at Lincon University in Christchurch, New Zealand. At the conference Francisco presented a poster outlining the IPMG's work towards developing a collaborative plantation health monitoring system for the entire Western Australian plantation estate. Some highlighted projects included: development of standardised rapid surveillance methods development of mobile-device software to easily record pests and diseases in the field development of a web-based database of pest and disease records in Western Australia You can download a copy of the poster 'Technology and collaboration helping improve eucalypt plantation pest [...]
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