Apple and Its Worm, Continuing Challenge and Inspiration, Since the Garden of Eden

Organizer(s)

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  Don Thomson

  President
  Pacific Biocontrol Corporation
  Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  Peter Witzgall

  Professor
  Plant Protection Biology
  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  Alnarp, Skane Lan, Sweden

Apple orchards are a source of inspiration, for arts and science, including the design of sustainable insect management, more than any other crop. We review sex pheromone-mediated disruption of mating in codling moth, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, and aim to illustrate the art of bringing science to practical application.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Don Thomson – Pacific Biocontrol Corporation
• 1:35 PM – 2:05 PM PT

  Mission-oriented sex pheromone research: Five decades of delivering novel and effective IPM technologies to society
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas C. Baker – Pennsylvania State University
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT

  Codling moth biology and ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Christopher Adams – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Peter McGhee – Pacific Biocontrol Corporation
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM PT

  From early innovation to implementation of regional pheromone mating disruption programs: Forging new collaborations to solve old problems
  

  Presenting Author: Steve Welter – San Diego State University
• 2:35 PM – 3:05 PM PT

  Codling moth mating disruption 30 years on: Status and what still needs to be done
  

  Presenting Author: Don Thomson – Pacific Biocontrol Corporation
• 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM PT

  Discussion
• 3:20 PM – 3:50 PM PT

  Break
• 3:50 PM – 4:20 PM PT

  Codling moth responses to its sex pheromone in the lab and field and what It means to the efficacy of codling moth mating disruption
  

  Presenting Author: Gary Judd – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM PT

  A systems approach to codling moth management
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Doerr – Wilbur-Ellis Co.
• 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM PT

  Distilling 30 years of codling moth mating disruption research and development as model for success in other organisms
  

  Presenting Author: Peter McGhee – Pacific Biocontrol Corporation
• 5:05 PM – 5:25 PM PT

  Discussion
• 5:25 PM – 5:30 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Don Thomson – Pacific Biocontrol Corporation