Stored products, IPM, pests, natural enemies, prevention, traps, control, food safety, urban entomology
The group comprises 90 participants from 26 countries.
The general objectives of the group are the communication of research findings and the promotion of methods for integrated stored product protection that help to reduce the use of residue building pesticides and to avoid risks to the user as well as to the environment.
The IOBC/WPRS Working Group on Integrated Protection of Stored Products meets every two years to discuss new findings regarding the following topics:
- biology of stored product pests
- methods of pest prevention during storage, transportation and handling
- pheromones, traps and other methods to detect stored product pests
- all aspects of biological control
- revention of microflora infection and development of mycotoxins
- physical, chemical and other techniques for stored product pest control
- futurology: overviews and future trends on all aspects of storage pest control
- wood-boring, urban, quarantine and museum pests
