NEWSLETTER Issue 01 March 2015

TO OUR READERS It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the first TAAO Newsletter. Starting in 2010 under the leadership of Abdel Bakri and Olivia Reynolds, the Tephritid workers of Asia, Australia and Oceania (TAAO) network was initiated to facilitate improved communication and collabora- tion among workers across our region, much like our sister groups the ‘Tephritid workers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East’ (TEAM) and the Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH). In 2014, a new team (page 13) assumed responsibility for growing the TAAO into the future, including the production of a regular newsletter that we hope will be an effective means to distribute news and events, an avenue to notify of upcoming training or research opportunities, and a chance to stay up to date with col- leagues across the region. I therefore invite you to enjoy ‘Issue 01’, within which you will find notes on an assessment of recent trends in fruit fly management in eastern Australia (page 2), fly roosting behaviour in India (page 3), and some of the latest research from our colleagues in China (page 9), and other contributions. I encourage readers to submit news for future issues. Please send all items for consideration to the editorial committee (page 14) by the end of June for the next issue. Importantly, while we all know the economic damage fruit inflict, we also seek news and contributions on general fruit fly biology, natural history, and basic research. As we all know, there’s more to tephritids than the damage they do! And finally, the keen-eyed amongst you will notice that the TAAO has a new logo. Many thanks to Jaye Newman of the Fruit Fly Research Group based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane (Australia) for its production! Mark Schutze (TAAO Steering Committee Chair)

Contents: Page No. Review of recent trends in south eastern Australia 2 Roosting activity of melon fly, cucurbitae (Diptera: ) on pigeon pea 3 Attraction of fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata (Saunders)... 4 NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) and University of Western Sydney (UWS)... 5 Bait manufactured from beer yeast waste contributes to improved fruit fly control in the region 6-7 TAAO SC member Sandeep Singh participated in International Conference on Citriculture in Pakistan 8 Three new papers on fruit flies of economic importance by Chinese teams 9-10 Endeavour Executive Fellow 2014 11 Upcoming events and dates to remember 12 News- 1ST TAAO Meeting 12 Review of recent trends in south eastern Australia

Bernie Dominiak in publications, the normal range or distribution of all fruit flies of economic concern. Many older publica- Plant Biosecurity tions do that, at least in part; however, many trade Industry & Investment NSW Australia partners are asking if these ranges have changed giv- [email protected] en changes in weather patterns in some parts of Aus- tralia. As many existing reports are decades old, there appears to be a need to review these distributions and In the early 1990’s, regional management (including ranges in current publications and to redefine or reaf- fruit fly freedom) of fruit fly was seen as better than firm species distribution. Associated with redefining individual farm management strategy. This spawned distributions will be the recognition by trade partners the formation of the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone (FFEZ) that detections beyond the recognised range are only and subsequently the Sunraysia Pest Free Area. This isolated incursions and not a genuine range extension. regional strategy was largely successful in drier years Bernie Dominiak for irrigated horticulture. However, as weather pat- terns shifted to more frequent wetter periods, the strategy became increasingly more costly to maintain. Following the wet years of 2010-2011, the FFEZ be- came technically impossible and economically unsus- tainable to maintain.

The legislation supporting the FFEZ was withdrawn and the FFEZ ceased to exist as such and changed operational mode in July 2013. These changing con- ditions have prompted the development of other standards, primarily the International Standards for All these changes will depend of sound research and Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) and the alignment of science that is published. Usually, only peer reviewed domestic trade standards with ISPMs. Towards that publications can be used in bi-lateral negotiations. end, we intend to publish the standards for Areas of The changes mentioned above, relying on sound sci- Low Pest Prevalence for Queensland Fruit Fly, hope- ence, will take several years to flow through into fully in 2015. Similarly a draft paper on Systems Ap- international trade agreements and will generally re- proach from Australian Fruit Flies will soon be sub- quire a change in mind set from all parties. A classic mitted for publication. Another paper in the final example of good science and changing mind set is the stages of preparation will advocate shorter quarantine recent acceptance by Australia on the amalgamation distances and areas from outbreaks that are based on of some species in the Bactrocera dorsalis complex. fruit fly biology. The principles in this second paper Australia appears to be the first country to recognise could be applied where the biology of any species is the science and initiate this change. The challenge well known. Acceptance of these standards will de- will be to see if other countries follow suit or even pend on discussions in bi-lateral negotiations. recognise Australia’s decision. Sound science and adapting to change will be the trade challenges for the next five years at least. While regional pest management and pest freedom, particularly state sponsored, appears to be a less favoured approach, the issue of pest freedom re- mains. Nationally there is a need to clearly articulate,

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 2 Roosting activity of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

on pigeon pea

Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar reduce the load of on main crops, i.e. cu- curbits. Additionally, planting pigeon pea as a bor- Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, dering crop will also help in the enhancement of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour-813210, fertility and nutritional security of poor and marginal Bhagalpur, Bihar, India farmers who cultivate cucurbits for their daily liveli- hood. A high frequency of activity of melon fly was ob- served on pigeon pea during Sep-Oct 2014 in a kitch- en garden at Bisai Bigha (Latitude 25.18o N, Longi- tude 85.30o E and Altitude 62 m AMSL), Nalanda, Bihar, India (Figure 1). Pigeon pea could be used as a

roosting crop for melon fly management. Pigeon pea as a trap crop for the melon fly could help in the improvement of bait application techniques and

Figure 1. Different postures of adult melon flies roosting on pigeon pea. A & B: an adult female melon fly on the upper and undersurface of a leaf; C: an adult male melon fly on a pigeon pea leaf; D, E & F: a group of adult melon fly adults on the upper and undersurface of a leaf; G & H: melon fly adults mating on the under and upper surface of a leaf; and I: adult melon flies resting singly on the undersurface of each leaflet of a pigeon pea leaf

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 3 Attraction of fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata

(Saunders) to coloured PAU fruit fly traps on Kinnow mandarin in Punjab, India

Kavita Bajaj and Sandeep Singh* both olfactory as well as phagostimulatory action and is known to attract fruit flies from a distance of up to Department of Fruit Science, 800 m. Methyl eugenol, when used together with an Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, impregnated into a suitable substrate, 141004, Punjab, India forms the basis of male annihilation technique *[email protected] (M.A.T.). This technique has been successfully used for the management of several Bactrocera species.

Kinnow, a hybrid between King (Citrus nobilis Lour.) and Willow leaf (Citrus deliciosa Ten.) man- Adult fruit flies use visual and olfactory stimuli to darins, is the prime citrus fruit of the Indian Punjab locate hosts and the traps that combine visual and ol- and occupies an area of 45.85 thousand ha with 9.88 factory cues proved to be the most efficient for cap- lac metric tonnes produced per year. Among the vari- turing fruit flies. The responses of the fruit flies to ous limiting factors, fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis visual stimuli are dependent on colour besides shape (Hendel) and B. zonata (Saunders) are the most im- and size of the stimulus. Present studies were, there- portant -pests infesting Kinnow as they fore, conducted on the attraction of fruit flies to dif- cause up to 80 per cent fruit infestation due to a fa- ferent coloured PAU fruit flies traps i.e. red, yellow, vourable season and carryover of fruit flies from and green and compared with colourless PAU fruit peach, pear, guava, mango, loquat, sapota, plum, fly trap (based on empty water bottle) in Kinnow or- phalsa, fig and some vegetable crops. These fruit flies chard in the Fruit Research Farm, Punjab Agricultural are very difficult to manage as they are polyphagous, University, Ludhiana during 2013-2014. A total of 16 multivoltine, adults have high mobility and fecundity, traps/acre were used in this study. Coloured tape was and all the developmental stages are unexposed. rolled around each trap at three places i.e. neck, cen- tre and bottom of the trap. Four traps each, having

red, yellow and green coloured tapes, were fixed in a 1 acre area, replicated thrice along with standard 4 PAU fruit fly traps as a control. The results revealed that the highest number of fruit flies was captured in yellow traps (Fig. 1) and the mean percentage of fruit

fly damage was lower in yellow traps as compared to other coloured traps.

Figure 1. Yellow trap on Kinnow tree Farmers have to spray various insecticides at weekly intervals for the management of fruit flies. Applica- tion of insecticides disrupts the ecosystem and causes numerous hazards. Thus, there is a need of eco- friendly techniques for fruit fly management. Among the various alternate strategies available for the man- agement of fruit flies, the use of methyl eugenol traps stands as the most outstanding. Methyl eugenol has

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 4 NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) and University of Western Sydney (UWS) researchers investigating differences in gut Bacteria between wild and artificial diet fed Queensland Fruit Flies [Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt)] and Larvae

Ania Deutscher 16SrDNAamplicon next generation sequencing. Fol- lowing this, Deane and Ania will be able to determine Plant Protection, NSW Department of Primary the bacteria to be tested as possible larval and adult Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur probiotic diets. This follows the first amplicon se- Agricultural Institute quencing analysis of the microbiome of field-caught Woodbridge Rd, Menangle NSW 2568 Australia and laboratory-adapted Qfly and related Australian fruit fly species with different host plant use and spe- [email protected] cialization. This work was recently published by Dr Jennifer Morrow (UWS) and colleagues in Microbial Ecology (DOI 10.1007/s00248-015-0571-1). The Fruit Fly Production Facility (FFPF) at the NSW Department of Primary Industries Elizabeth Macar- thur Agricultural Institute (EMAI) in Menangle, NSW, Australia, currently mass-rears and supplies sterile Queensland fruit flies (Qflies) to programs around the country. The fruit flies from the facility, managed by Dr Solomon Balagawi, are used for ster- ile insect technique research and to help combat Qfly outbreaks. Research Fellow Dr Ania Deutscher and PhD student Deane Woruba are searching for bacteri- al probiotic candidates that will increase the competi- tiveness of sterile mass-reared male Qflies in the field and the fitness of the FFPF fruit fly colony.

In a project funded by Horticulture Innovation Aus- tralia Limited with coinvestment from the 'Traprock' growers and funds from the Australian Government, Ania, who is based at EMAI, has been extracting the intestines of facility-reared larvae and larvae from a range of Qfly infested fruit. Deane, a Plant Biosecuri- ty CRC scholarship student based at both EMAI and the University of Western Sydney (UWS), has been Deane Woruba (right) and Stefano De Faveri (left) collecting wild Qflies from fruit orchards and rainfor- from the Queensland Government's Department of ests (Qflies are thought to have originated from rain- , Fisheries and Forestry (QDAFF), Aus- forests in far north Queensland (Qld)) throughout tralia, sampling mangoes from the QDAFF NSW and Qld. Within these projects, which are being Southedge orchard Qfly sampling site performed in collaboration with Dr Olivia Reynolds and Dr Toni Chapman (both NSW DPI) and Associ- ate Professor Markus Riegler (UWS), the gut bacteria of the larvae and adults will be compared to the gut microflora of the FFPF (lucerne chaff diet) and labor- atory reared (carrot diet) larvae/flies using TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 5 Bait manufactured from beer yeast waste co ntributes to improved fruit fly control in

the region

S. Vijaysegaran through research projects in Vietnam funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Re- School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sci- search (ACIAR), two plants to produce fruit fly bait ences, Queensland University of Technology from beer yeast waste have been established in collab- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia oration with local research agencies and breweries. [email protected] One plant is located in the Mekong Delta, in Tien Giang province at Asia Pacific Breweries (formerly In Asia there are more than 7 different species of fruit Fosters Brewery) and the other plant is located in the flies that cause extensive damage and losses to yield north at An Thinh brewery near Hanoi city. A third ranging from 40-100 per cent across a wide range of privately owned plant is located at Carlsberg brewery fruit and vegetable crops. Farming communities and in Shah Alam, Malaysia. In these plants, beer yeast horticultural industries struggle to cope with these waste (spent yeast) is converted in a two-step process losses and what they desperately need is control tech- of heating to remove excess gas and water, and subse- nology that is low cost, simple to apply, safe to users quently enzyme treatment to complete autolysis of the and the environment, and consistently effective and yeast cells. The end product is a dark brown coloured reliable. liquid bait that contains proteins (12-18%), sugars (18- 25%), water and fruity fermentation odours, and is highly attractive to adult fruit flies in the field.

Figure 1. Bait plant in Asia Pacific Breweries, Tien Figure 3. Raw yeast waste (right) and the processed Giang province, South Vietnam bait (left)

Together, these 3 bait plants produce bait that is sold commercially and readily available to farmers in the region. In Vietnam, more than 10,000 farmers have been trained on bait use by the Southern Fruits Re- search Institute (SOFRI) and the Plant Protection Re- search Institute (PPRI) and the economic impacts have been highly significant. Farmers growing peach,

plums, guava, sapota, mango and Barbados cherry Figure 2. The processed bait being bottled have reported a 4-6 fold increase in incomes with the In response to this need, a novel control technique ut- introduction of the spot spray beer yeast waste lizing beer yeast waste to produce a bait, together with technology. a low-volume spot spray application technique was conceived and developed in the mid 1980’s at the Ma- laysian Agricultural Research & Development Insti- tute. Subsequently, over the period 2002-2008,

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 6 The bait plant in Malaysia supplies bait to Area-Wide control programs on gherkin in India and mango In- donesia that combine spot spray bait application with male annihilation (using methyl eugenol or cue lure soaked blocks) and crop hygiene. The level of control in the AWM programs has been very impressive with fruit damage reduced to less than 0.3 per cent in the gherkin industry in India and FTD maintained at less than 1 in the mango AWM zone in Indonesia. The bait control technology has also been adopted by the Asian Fruit Fly IPM project based at the Asian Insti- tute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.

Farmer training in groups of 25 - Vietnam

Figure 6. Peach fruits before bait sprays-100% fly damage at harvest.

Figure 4. Farmer training in Vietnam

Figure 7. After bait sprays- less than 4% damage at harvest.

The beer yeast waste bait spot spray technology has been used successfully against 7 species of pest fruit flies in Asia, viz. Bactrocera dorsalis (previously B. papayae), B carambolae, B. correcta, B. pyrifoliae, B. latifrons, B cucurbuitae and Dacus ciliatus. The technology has had a major impact in helping farmers in Asia successfully tackle their fruit fly problems, Figure 5. Farmer applying bait to mango reduce yield losses and increase farm and household in Indonesia. incomes.

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 7 TAAO SC member Sandeep Singh participat ed in International Conference on

Citriculture in Pakistan

Sandeep Singh Department of Fruit Science Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 141004, Punjab, India [email protected]

Sandeep Singh, working as Assistant Entomologist in the Department of Fruit Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India and member of Steering

Figure 2. Sandeep Singh with scientists and students

Figure 1. Sandeep Singh co-chairing session on Crop Management: Nutrition, Propagation and Plant protection Nursery Management, Plant Protection, Post-Harvest

Physiology & Supply Chain Management, and Ge- Committee, TAAO participated in "International netics, Breeding and Biotechnology. More than 200 Conference on Citriculture: Challenges and Manage- citrus scientists from Pakistan, India and China par- ment" at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pa- ticipated in this conference. kistan from February 11-13, 2015. The Conference was organized by the Department of Horticulture of the University. Singh presented his oral paper on Singh was taken as member of international steering “Eco-friendly management of fruit flies, Bactrocera committee of the conference. He co-chaired session spp. with spinosad based bait application techniques on plant protection. Singh was also member of poster on Kinnow mandarin in India”. evaluation committee for selection of best poster.

Various technical sessions were held during the con- ference viz. Crop Management: Cultural Practices,

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 8 Three new papers on fruit flies of economic importance by Chinese teams

Zhihong Li 2015. A global presence/absence dataset including 180 Department of Entomology economically significant fruit fly species in 118 coun- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology tries was analyzed using a Self Organising Map China Agricultural University (SOM). The ranked lists of establishment probability Beijing, 100193, P. R. China from six countries were selected from each continent [email protected] (including China, Australia, Italy, South Africa, The United States, and Argentina) and were compared and contrasted in detail. Geographically close countries Chinese scientists increasingly pay more attention on were clustered together by the SOM analysis, and the studies of fruit flies, especially the economic im- these closely-clustered countries represented greater portant species of genus Bactrocera. Three new pa- threats to each other as sources of invasive fruit fly pers mainly by three Chinese teams were published species (Figure 1). This study exemplifies how the (or are available online) successively in recent SOM method may be utilized as an initial screen to months; these papers focus on the invasive risk, ther- support prioritizing fruit fly species with respect to mal stress, and RNA interference of fruit flies, their invasion potential into a new region. respectively.

The global establishment risk of economic important fruit flies was studied by Prof. Zhihong Li’s team (from China Agricultural University, Beijing) and in collaboration with Dr. Dean R. Paini (CSIRO). This paper was published by PLoS ONE on January 14,

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 9 The comparative proteomic analysis of B. dorsalis Qin Y. J., Paini D. R., Wang C., Fang Y., Li Z. H.. (Hendel) in response to the thermal stress was 2015. Global establishment risk of economically researched by Prof. Jinjun Wang’s team from South- important fruit fly species (Tephritidae). PLoS ONE, West University, Chongqing. This paper was made 10(1): e0116424. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116424. available online by Journal of Insect Physiology on

February 3, 2015. This team performed a comparative proteome analysis using two-dimensional Wei D., Jia F. X., Tian C. B., Tian Y., Smagghe G., electrophoresis after exposing B. dorsalis to extreme Dou W., Wang J. J.. 2015. Comparative proteomic low and high temperatures. Among the separated analysis of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) in response proteins, 51 diverse protein spots showed differences to thermal stress. Journal of Insect Physiology, 74:16- in response to extreme temperatures. Thirty-nine 24. proteins were successfully identified using tandem mass spectrometry sequencing analysis, which included 13 oxidoreductases, 10 binding proteins, 5 transferases, and 2 each of lyases, isomerases, ligases, and developmental proteins. This study paves the way for further functional studies in the physiological mechanism related to thermal stress.

The third study focused on how the endocytic pathway mediates refractoriness of B. dorsalis to RNA interference, as studied by Prof. Hongyu Zhang’s team from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hu- bei province. This paper, published in Scientific Re- ports on March 3, 2015, showed that B. dorsalis be- came refractory to RNAi using orally administered dsRNA targeting endogenous genes. They discovered that the refractoriness to RNAi was not gene-specific, and that its duration depended on the dsRNA concentration. RNAi blockage required the endocytic pathway. Fluorescence microscopy indicated that dsR- NA uptake was blocked in RNAi refractory flies. Genes involved in the entry of dsRNAs into cells, including chc, cog3, light and others, were down- regulated in RNAi refractory flies. Increasing the endocytic capacity by improving F-actin polymeriza- tion disrupted RNAi refractoriness after both primary and secondary dsRNA exposures.

We are looking forward to more progress on the studies of fruit flies of economic importance in TAAO.

Li X. X., Dong X. L., Zou C., Zhang H. Y.. 2015. Endocytic pathway mediates refractoriness of insect Bactrocera dorsalis to RNA interference. Scientific Reports, 5:8700. doi:10.1038/srep08700.

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 10 Endeavour Executi ve Fellow 2014

Mahfuza Khan improving the used to com- bat outbreaks of the Queensland fruit fly in Australia Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radiation Biology, Atomic Energy Research and other tephritids overseas. Establishment, Ganakbari, Savar, G.P.O. Box No. 1349, Dhaka-1000 Khan published three papers in good ranking interna- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission tional journals from her work during Endeavour Re- [email protected] search Fellowship. First one on comparison of solid and liquid larval diets for mass rearing of Q-fly to Mahfuza Khan, Principal Scientific Officer, Insect overcome storage, handling and waste challenges of Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and Radia- ‘solid’ diets using liquid larval diets. The second was tion Biology, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commis- on plant oils as supplements for liquid diet, and the sion completed Australian Government ‘Endeavour third one on the relationship between pre-release ac- Executive Fellowship’ 2014 on ‘Operational proce- cess to autolyzed yeast as a dietary supplement and dure of Queensland Fruit Fly, Bactrocera tryoni subsequent ability of flies to survive periods of acute (Froggatt) using environment friendly Sterile Insect starvation. All of these studies will be important con- Technique (SIT)’. She was hosted by Associate Pro- tributions to Sterile Insect Technique as applied to fessor Phillip W. Taylor, Discipline of Brain, Behav- the Queensland fruit fly in Australia. The three iour and Evolution, Department of Biological Scienc- papers are available as: es, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Khan’s fellowship program also encompasses the visits to Q- fly Production Facilities, Department of Primary In- Mahfuza Khan. 2013. Potential of liquid larval diets dustry (DPI), Ourimbah Campus, NSW and Elizabeth for mass rearing of Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera Macarthur Agricultural Institute (EMAI), DPI, Me- tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera:Tephritidae). Australian nangle, NSW. Journal of Entomology 52: 268-276.

Taylor, P. W., M. Khan, S. R. Collins and O. L. Reynolds. 2013. Yeast hydrolysate supplement in- creases starvation vulnerability of Queensland fruit fly. Physiological Entomology 38(4): 337-343.

Mahfuza Khan. 2014. Effect of plant oils on quality parameters of Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) reared on

liquid larval diet. Journal of Applied Entomology (doi:10.1111/jen.12154).

Mahfuza Khan She also attended Endeavour Awards Professional Development Workshop and Networking Programs in Sydney, Australia during the Fellowship In 2010, Mahfuza Khan carried out Endeavour Post- Programs’ 2010 and 2014. Doctoral Research under supervision of A/Prof. P. W. Taylor at Macquarie University on larval diets and the potential value of pre-release supplements for

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 11 UPCOMING EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

FAO/IAEA Regional Training Course on Free Open (under FAO/IAEA Regional TC Project RAS5067). Source Software for GIS and Data Management Ap- 16-20 November 2015, Brisbane, Australia. Deadline plied to Fruit Flies in the Balkans and the Eastern for nominations 31 August 2015. See details in the Mediterranean (under Regional TC Project IPCL Newsletter No.84 (pg. 28) for how to submit RER5020), 1–5 June 2015, Vienna, Austria applications to attend FAO/IAEA training courses: http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/10850/

Insect-Pest-Control-Newsletter-No-84-January-2015 FAO/IAEA Interregional Training Course on The Use of the Sterile Insect and Related Techniques for the Integrated Area Wide Management of Insect 3rd meeting of the Tephritid Workers of Europe, Afri- Pests (under Interregional TC Project INT5151), 3– ca & the Middle East (TEAM 2016), 11-14 April 28 August 2015, Metapa de Dominguez, Chiapas, 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa Mexico and Antigua/El Pino, Guatemala

9th meeting of the Tephritid Workers of the Western FAO/IAEA Regional Training Course on Hemisphere (TWWH 2016), tentatively October and Identification of Fruit Fly Pest Species to the 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina Southeast Asia (under Regional TC Project

RAS5067), 7–11 September 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Meeting of the Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT), International Plant Protection Convention, FAO. 26-30 October 2016, Tohoku, Workshop on Microbial and Processing Criteria for Japan Industrial Production of Probiotics or Bacteria as

Source of Protein to Improve Fruit Fly Quality and th SIT Efficiency, 23-25 October 2015, Guatemala 10 International Symposium on Fruit Fly of Eco- City, Guatemala nomic Importance (ISFFEI 2018), Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Regional training course on Taxonomy and Identifi- cation of Fruit Fly Pest Species for Southeast Asia

News: 1st TAAO Meeting Tephritid Workers Database (TWD) st 1 Symposium of the Tephritid Workers of Asia, Tephritid Workers Database link: Australia and Oceania (TAAO 2016) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-19 August 2016. http://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/ default.aspx

MORE DETAILS COMING Please keep your TWD profile updated to stay con- SOON nected with the whole tephritid fruit fly community in the world.

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 12 TAAO STEERING COMMITTEE

FIRST ROW L-R SECOND ROW L-R

Mark Schutze Keng Hong Tan School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Tan Hak Heng, 20 Queensland University of Technology Jalan Tan Jit Seng GPO Box 2434 Tanjong Bungah Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia Penang, Malaysia [email protected] [email protected]

Alvin Hee Kenji Tsuruta Department of Biology Yokohama Plant Protection Station Faculty of Science Yokohama Universiti Putra Malaysia Japan Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia [email protected] [email protected] Bonifacio Cayabyab Zhihong Li Faculty of Crop Protection College of Agronomy and Biotechnology University of the Philippines Los Baños China Agricultural University Philippines Beijing, China [email protected] [email protected] Sandeep Singh Tati Suryati Syamsudin Department of Fruit Science School of Life Sciences & Technology Punjab Agricultural University Institut Teknologi Bandung Ludhiana 141004 Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia Punjab, India [email protected] [email protected]

Sujinda Thanaphum Phil Taylor Fruit Fly Molecular Genetic Laboratory Department of Biological Sciences Department of Biotechnology Macquarie University Faculty of Science NSW 2109, Australia Mahidol University, Ratchathewe [email protected] Bangkok, Thailand [email protected] Annastasia Kawi National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority Suksom Chinvinijkul P O Box 817 Department of Agricultural Extension Kokopo Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives East New Britain Province Bangkok, Thailand [email protected] [email protected]

TAAO Newsletter Issue 01 (March 2015) 13 Editorial Committee

Mark Schutze School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia [email protected]

Farzana Yesmin Radiation Entomology and Acarology Division Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box No. 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh [email protected]

Hamish Patrick Bio-Protection Research Centre Burns 616 P O Box 85084 Lincoln University Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand [email protected]

Md. Hasanuzzaman Agrochemical and Environmental Research Division Institute of Food and Radiation Biology Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission GPO Box No. 3787 Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh [email protected]

TAAO NEWSLETTER

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