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Embrapa Arroz e Feijão reported on August 18, 2026, that two rice materials stood out for resistance to the rice leafhopper Tagosodes orizicolus, also known as sogata or, in Portuguese, cigarrinha-do-arroz. The cultivar BRS A705 and genotype BGA 6914 were the most resistant materials identified in the research described by Embrapa.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), working with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), removed the Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, California. The change was announced in NAPPO Official Pest Report 1205, posted on August 18, 2026, and took effect immediately.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), working with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), removed sapote fruit fly quarantines in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties, Texas. The action was announced in NAPPO Official Pest Report 1206, posted on August 18, 2026, and took effect immediately.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), working with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), removed the West Indian fruit fly quarantine in Hidalgo County, Texas, on June 9, 2026. The action concerned the area designated as the Palmview quarantine and was documented in NAPPO Official Pest Report 1204, posted on August 18, 2026.
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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed 7.4 square miles from the Asian longhorned beetle quarantine in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York, according to NAPPO Official Pest Report 1202, posted on August 14, 2026. The change applied immediately and followed final surveys of host trees by the Asian longhorned beetle eradication program.
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EPPO's July 2026 Reporting Service recorded the first report of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, in Slovakia. The detection was based on adult insects caught in a pheromone funnel trap in Eastern Slovakia. According to EPPO Reporting Service article 2026/163, 18 adult specimens of A. planipennis were caught on June 25, 2026. The trap was installed on an ash tree in the park next to the manor-house of Streda nad Bordogom, in the Trebisov district of the Kosice region.
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EPPO's July 2026 Reporting Service included an update on citrus longhorn beetle, Anoplophora chinensis, in Croatia. The report focused on official survey work in the demarcated area of Biograd na Moru in Zadar County, where new adult beetles were detected at the end of June 2026.
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An official July 2026 report recorded multiple Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) incursions across three regions of France. The findings extended from the eastern border area to Strasbourg and the south-east, including what the report described as the first detection in southern France.
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A late-June cotton aphid forecast from Xinjiang points to an uneven risk pattern: generally light regional occurrence, but much heavier pressure in selected local production areas. On June 25, 2026, China’s National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (NATESC) published “新疆棉蚜发生动态及趋势预测” (“Xinjiang cotton aphid occurrence dynamics and trend forecast”), describing observations through June 22 and the expected June-July trend.
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