10th International Conference on Urban Pests, Barcelona, Spain, 29th June - 1st July. 2020

AIM-COST Tue, 01/28/2020 - 15:05
ICUP Logo

As you know, the International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP) brings together those with a professional interest in urban pests. Every three years, participants from academia, industry, government and professional pest control, come from all over the world to meet at the ICUP and share research  and ideas.

1st TRAINING SCHOOL - Harmonizing Aedes Invasive Mosquito (AIM) surveillance across Europe 13-17 Jan 2020

AIM-COST Tue, 09/10/2019 - 08:07
Training School Cyprus
OBJECTIVE OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL: Provide the theoretical basis and develop the practical skills for the implementation of harmonized AIM surveillance in Europe, with the final goal of a pan-European monitoring effort in following mosquito breeding seasons.

Detection of a new Aedes invasive species reported in Europe - Aedes flavopictus, Netherlands, June 2019

AIM-COST Mon, 07/29/2019 - 13:35
Ibáñez-Justicia et al. 2019 Euro Surveill.

On 13 June 2019, in a sample of mosquitoes captured in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands during routine surveillance, a specimen was recognised as potentially belonging to an exotic species. Based on the molecular analysis of the specimen, we concluded that it belonged to Aedes flavopictus (Yamada, 1921). To our knowledge, this is both the first time that this species has been reported outside its area of origin in north-east Asia and associated with the import of used tyres.

Publication: Complex interplay of evolutionary forces shaping population genomic structure of invasive Aedes albopictus in southern Europe

AIM-COST Mon, 09/02/2019 - 16:35
Pishcler et al. 2019 PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Studying the genomes of invasive populations allows for the tracing of invasion processes.  In this study, the authors have focused on the invasion of Albania, Italy and Greece by the Asian tiger mosquito,Aedes albopictus' one of the most successful invasive animal species worldwide.