icipe 2011 core RBM Annual Report 16May12

52 2011 BRIEF OF icipe ACHIEVEMENTS IN SELECTED PROJECTS BRIEF BACKGROUND: The primary mandate of icipe is research in integrated control methodologies for crop and livestock insect pests and other related arthropods, and insect vectors of tropical diseases and the strengthening of scientific and technological capacities of developing African countries in insect science and its application through. [...] invadens microsatellite markers and tracing the origin and invasion pathways of the this pest established; and • Use of the augmentorium, which serve dual purpose of field’s sanitation and parasitoid augmentation and conservation, adopted by mango growers. [...] longicaudata for the at least 30% • Impact of release • Sampling of cultivated and • Installation of suppression of reduction of fruit parasitoids and their wild fruit collections augmentoria in the Bactrocera invadens and flies populations by establishment quantified carried out and yielded at release sites in the native Ceratitis species 2013. [...] The role of the weaver The weaver ant • At least 30% of growers Knowledge on the • Field experiments were • Parallel experiments ant (Oecophylla technology adopted become aware of ant role of the weaver conducted in northern and are on-going in Kenya longinoda) in the as a component of importance in fruit flies ant in management central Benin in 5 orchards and Tanzania to management of fruit fruit. [...] Alternatives to Alternative strategies • At least 1 hyperparasite Management of • Epidemiology of leaf and • Evaluation of varietal management strategies for the control of fungus and 1 and 1 powdery mildew and nut blight in Tanzania resistance to blight for powdery mildew powdery mildew and environmentally friendly leaf and nut blight in established.