Short CV of Eric Palevsky

Eric Palevsky is a research acarologist at the Agricultural Research Organization of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture (ARO). He is based at the Newe-Ya’ar Research Center, located between Haifa and Nazareth. His key qualifications are: IPM of phytophagous mites with an emphasis on the use of predatory mites for biological control. Since 2000 guest lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the course Agricultural Acarology.

He joined the IOBC/WPRS in 2003, participant of the WGs: “Integrated control in protected crops, temperate and Mediterranean climates”.

Recent projects:

• Coordinator and PI of an EU research project titled “Development of an economic rearing and transport system for an arid adapted strain of the predatory mite, Neoseiulus californicus, for spider mite control” (completed September 2006).
• Coordinator and PI in a USAID Middle East Regional Cooperation Project titled “Integrated control of the date palm spider mite” (ongoing).
• PI of a national project titled “Integrated Control of the persea mite on avocado” (ongoing).