Latest Ecophero news, product launches and insights on insect pheromones and integrated pest management (IPM).
A two-season study in Minas Gerais, Brazil, puts regular field observation at the center of the sorghum aphid story. In a report published on October 6, 2026, Embrapa describes research in forage-sorghum fields that compared insecticide-treated and untreated conditions and sampled insect populations weekly. The report discusses predation by insects in the family Syrphidae and emphasizes monitoring as part of managing Melanaphis sorghi.
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A Mediterranean fruit fly detection in a public space led to a quarantine covering 27.29 square miles in Old San Juan, San Juan Municipality, Puerto Rico. In an official notice posted on September 30, 2026, through the NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported the action taken with the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (PRDA).
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Improving monitoring was one of the opportunities highlighted in HortiDaily’s October 1, 2026 report on the Lettuce Chain Day in Zwaagdijk-Oost, North Holland, Netherlands. The report described the lettuce sector’s challenge with Nasonovia ribisnigri and continuing research into responses. Its account also carried an essential qualification: trials were still running, and speakers had not identified a completed solution. The monitoring discussion should therefore be read as a research direction with work ahead, rather than evidence of a finished pest-management system.
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Maryland’s box tree moth quarantine expanded to include Caroline, Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties in an October 1, 2026 notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The pest named in the notice is Cydalima perspectalis. For people responsible for boxwood monitoring, the announcement provides a dated reference for understanding the agency’s Maryland response and reviewing the geographic scope of their monitoring work.
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Finding the first aphid hotspots is the practical starting point of a greenhouse pepper report published by HortiDaily on October 2, 2026. The Koppert-sourced article discusses Aphis gossypii in Almería, Spain, and emphasizes scouting, early detection, and marking affected areas. Its message gives growers and crop advisers a focused subject for discussion: how observations of the pest can guide attention within the crop.
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Asian longhorned beetle quarantine coverage has changed in southeast Tate Township, Clermont County, Ohio. In its October 1, 2026 notice, DA-2026-42, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the removal of 6.2 square miles from the quarantined area after the ALB Eradication Program completed final surveys of host trees.
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Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, reached a new milestone in the Asian longhorned beetle response on October 1, 2026. In notice DA-2026-41, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed the entire town from the quarantined area for Anoplophora glabripennis. The change covered 21.8 square miles in Worcester County and followed completion of the eradication program’s final survey of host trees.
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Wheat aphid monitoring forms part of China’s preparations for autumn sowing and winter crop protection. In guidance published on 29 September 2026, the National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Center (NATESC) called for surveys before sowing and regular checks during the seedling stage. Wheat aphids appear among the regional management priorities, within a wider programme covering wheat pests and diseases.
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Olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, features among the exotic threats discussed in Plant Health Australia's account of the olive industry's new Biosecurity Plan. The article describes Australia as free from this pest. Its focus is preparation for possible incursions, with no Australian olive fruit fly detection reported.
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