Automated Airborne Pest Monitoring (AAPM) of Drosophila suzukii in Crops and Natural Habitats
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Drosophila (D) suzukii has become a serious pest in Europe since its spread in 2008 to Spain and Italy, and the UK in 2012, attacking many soft-skinned crops such as several berry species, cherry and grapevines. Pest monitoring is the basis of its control. Therefore, an efficient and accurate monitoring system is essential in order to identify the presence of D. suzukii in crops and surrounding areas, and to prevent damage to economically valuable fruit crops. Existing methods for monitoring D. suzukii are costly, time and labor intensive and consequently conducted at a low spatial resolution and prone to errors. It is proposed to develop a novel system to overcome current monitoring limitat…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Automated Airborne Pest Monitoring (AAPM) of Drosophila suzukii in Crops and Natural Habitats
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Mar 2017
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2019
- Kind of work
- Waste and environment, Research, evaluation and insight
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