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The EU hub for information on assessment and emerging risks on #plants at @efsa.europa.eu

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The workshop is ongoing with a rich overview of #RiskDrivers by #JointResearchCenter of @ec.europa.eu
on effect on disease vectors, multiple pesticide effects, disinfo, mapping of EU ecosystems, #IAS...
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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3rd International Workshop on #HorizonScanning for #PlantPests has just started!
A great program is expecting us
Speaker: Philippe Reignault Director in charge of Plant Health for @anses-fr.bsky.social

event coorganised by
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Joint Research Center of @ec.europa.eu
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The IPA countries Autumn School in Osijek organised by @efsa.europa.eu and HAPIH just concluded. On the second day of #PlantHealth module sessions on #Xylella host plant database, #Scolitynae database were presented bit.ly/3XvfsY0
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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First module of the #PlantHealth in climate change, climate suitability ongoing at the IPA countries Autumn School in Osijek
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The @efsa.europa.eu and HAPIH Autumn School for IPA Countries just started. Victoria Villamar gave the opening presentation. For the second year a dedicated #PlantHealth session has been organised, focusing on #ClimateSuitability and #Databases.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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4th BTSF workshop on plant health surveillance in Kraków PL! Plant Health specialists from EU & beyond explore the Pest Survey Toolkit, RiPEST & OptiPest tools to boost risk-based and statistically sound surveys presented by EFSA's staff and experts. #PlantHealth #EFSA #BTSF
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Just started the second day of the Plant Health Risk Assessment network meeting. Forty participants, in person and online attended yesterday the sessions on #databases. Today the session on #grapevine disease session focusing on #xylella and #flavescencedoree
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Amazing to participate to the “EU Science for Preparedness Conference” where to learn about ongoing #CrisisManagement solutions, #ExtremeEvents, #Polycrisis tools
📍4-6 November 2025 in Turin, Italy

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Anna Samsel (DG ECHO) Peter Salamon (JRC)
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The #EFSA Plant Pest Surveillance Network meets in Parma (Oct 29–31)! Focus: survey methods, EIOS training, multiannual planning & tools like OptiPest. Sharing case studies from across Europe to strengthen plant health. #PlantHealth #Surveillance
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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#IPRRG2025 Stelio Kartakis (PhD student @w-u-r.bsky.social presented on "Modeling disease expression of Phytophthora ramorum to estimate potential economic impacts in European forests"
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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🌱 EFSA 23rd Plant Health Risk Assessment Network meeting: the Agenda has been published, presenting the variety of topics that will be discussed at EFSA from the 4th to the 6th November! Experts from 27 countries are coming together to strengthen plant health. bit.ly/4hgoZeM
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🌴 Do you know the quarantine pests that are threatening #palms?

Palm lethal yellowing #phytoplasmas and the insect #HaplaxiusCrudus are among them.

📖Learn about their detection strategies in the EFSA Story Map:

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Disease cycle of palm lethal yellowing phytoplasmas and life cycle of their vector, Haplaxius crudus (Source: Luka Mustapic, created in BioRender.com https://app.biorender.com/)
October 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Three species of #Grapholita are Union quarantine #pests in the EU
🔎Take a look at the EFSA pest survey card to learn how to perform risk-based surveys for these pests!

🔗 link.europa.eu/dmwCmR

🌱#PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Damage to fruits by Grapholita spp.: (A) damaged apple fruit with frass ejection of G. inopinata; (B) larva and frass of G. inopinata inside an apple; C) blossom end of apple fruit showing typical injury with frass ejection of G. prunivora; D) larva of G. prunivora in the fruit of Crataegus holmesiana (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Evgeny Akulov (A–B), New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Bugwood.org (C); P.J. Chapman, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Bugwood.org (D)).
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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❓ What’s in this picture?

These are Margarodidae – also known as ground pearls. They can survive in the soil for long periods as resilient cysts.

🔎Learn more and explore their Pest Survey Cards: link.europa.eu/g8mWH9 and link.europa.eu/kp3Yhj

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Cysts of: Margarodes capensis (A), Margarodes trimeni (B), Margarodes greeni (C) and Margarodes vredendalensis (D). (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij (South Africa) (A-C); C.A. de Klerk, Nietvoorbij Institute for Viticulture and Oenology, Bugwood.org (D)).
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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🌲 #Pseudocercospora pini-densiflorae is a pathogen of conifers, impacting both urban and forest ecosystems.

🔎 Early detection is essential to prevent spread and mitigate ecological and economic impacts.

EFSA #StoryMap 🔗 link.europa.eu/bWC3cG

🌱#PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Symptoms and signs of Pseudocercorspora pini-densiflorae (yellowish bands and black stomata) on a 2-years-old seedling on Pinus thunbergii
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🔎Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, commonly known as grapevine #phylloxera, is an invasive #pest of #grapevines and a protected zone quarantine pest in Cyprus.

📖Explore the newly published EFSA interactive Story Map: link.europa.eu/F4Y8Pd

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Vineyards (Vitis spp.) (Source: Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org) Different life stages of Daktulosphaira vitifoliae: (A) eggs, (B) larva on root of grapevine, (C) female with eggs and (D) adult (Sources: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institute für Pflanzenschutz im Weinbau (DE) (A); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Denis Kasatkin (B, C); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Jean-François Germain, Plant Health Laboratory, Montpellier (FR) (D)).
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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📢The Pest Survey Card on #Carposina sasakii is now live!

🔎Discover our interactive #StoryMap and gain insights into detection and delimiting surveys for this pest: link.europa.eu/9yVJy7

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Adult of Carposina sasakii (Source: Mark Dreiling, Bugwood.org) Apple fruit infested by Carposina sasakii. Oozing produced by larval penetration into the fruit can be observed (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Zhiwei Zhang (College of Forestry, Shanxi Agricultural University, China))
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📢New Pest Survey Card: non-EU #Choristoneura spp.

This group comprises 10 species with #conifers, #crops and #herbaceous species as host plants 🌲🌳🌿

🔎Explore our interactive #StoryMap: link.europa.eu/R7G4bJ

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Symptoms of Choristoneura spp. on host plants. (A) Bud and (B) needle mining and (C) webbing caused by the larvae of C. fumiferana, (D) defoliation caused by the larvae of C. pinus, (E) feeding damage and webbing caused by the larvae of C. parallela, (F) leaf rolled by the larva of C. conflictana (Sources: © USDA Forest Service - Forest Health Protection Intermountain Region - Ogden, UT, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org (A, B); © Neil Thompson, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Bugwood.org (C); © Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - FIA , Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Bugwood.org (D); © Adam Sisson, Iowa State University, Bugwood.org (E); © Steven Katovich, Bugwood.org (F))
September 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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#NowAttending the 1st National Congress of Dipterology in Reggio Emilia 📍 an event for sharing research and passion on Diptera🪰 as pollinators, biological control agents and providers of other vital ecosystem services 🌱
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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📢 New Pest Survey Card: #AnthonomusQuadrigibbus

This weevil is a pest of #fruit trees including apples, pears, and sour cherries 🍎🍐🍒.

Explore our interactive #StoryMap to learn more about detection strategies:

🔗 link.europa.eu/YgnGVY

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
(A) Egg, (B) larva, and (C) pupa in a saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia) fruit and (D) adult of Anthonomus quadrigibbus (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Joseph Moisan-De Serres, MAPAQ, Canada (A-D)) Examples of natural and human assisted-spread of Anthonomus quadrigibbus (Sources: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org (background); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Joseph Moisan-De Serres, MAPAQ, Canada (A. quadrigibbus adult); Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org (apple fruits).
September 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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@gbif.org #NowPresenting at the the 135th EFSA Plant Health Plenary@gbif.org #NowPresenting. The next effort will be on #Agrobiodiversity
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#NowPresented at the 135th EFSA Plant Health Plenary the KiBAB a platform (@anses-fr.bsky.social) developed for facilitating the identification of Scolytinae, and the updated database of Scolytinae (University of Padova) www.scolytinaehostsdatabase.eu/site/it/home/
September 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Today, Monia Lombardo and Alexandre Nougadère from #EFSA, presented the #CommodityRiskAssessment and #PriorityPests projects at the XXX #SIPaV Congress (Italian Phytopathological Society) on 15-17 September.

Fruitful exchanges on latest developments on #PlantPathology assessment and management.
September 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Very interesting project meeting in Parma (Italy): #REACT Bridging Innovation and Regulation: Pathways for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in Europe; .-> now Giuseppe Stancanelli presenting EFSA PLH Risk Assessment activities and eradication challenges for insect pests. react-insect.eu
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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#GreenAgriculture #SIF2025 Second day of the Global Forum on Green Agriculture. Presentation of very interesting case studies, such as Telagri for making available worldwide agricultural experts to any remote farm. telagri.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM