Hello ESC-Student Members! Great news from the ESC Board about the availability of 15 Ed Becker Conference Travel Awards of $500 to be used for students to travel to JAM 2022 and present a talk or poster in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Conference Centre overlooking the harbour. Seal and seagull sightings are almost guaranteed from the conference room windows. Many thanks to the Dufault Foundation for their generous donation that allows us increased support for student travel to our meetings.

With the call for papers out now for the 2022 JAM in British Columbia, the call for Ed Becker Conference Travel awards is also open with a deadline for submissions of 3 June 2022. All of the information for structuring your application can be found on the ESC webpage under Student Awards and specifically at https://esc-sec.ca/student/student-awards/#toggle-id-9

Applications are to be submitted by email to the ESC Association Coordinator at info@esc-sec.ca  with the following in the subject line – Your last name and the award name by the June 3 2022 deadline.

Entomologically yours,

Tyler Wist: Chair of the ESC Student Awards Committee

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The Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) has adopted the common name of ‘spongy moth’ for Lymantria dispar. This decision was made following an application to the common names committee of the ESC to adopt spongy moth as the new English common name of this insect. This application was reviewed by the committee in January and a decision rendered late last month in favour of adopting the name.

Lymantria dispar female with spongy egg mass. Photo: S. McCann

Lymantria dispar was previously known as ‘gypsy moth’ (and more recently in media reports as ‘LDD moth’). The previous common name was removed from the ESC’s list of accepted common names in July of 2021 for its use of a derogatory slur for the Romani people.

The new common name was selected to acknowledge the conspicuous, spongy egg masses that the insect produces. These egg masses are present 10 months of the year and are the primary way in which the insect is spread to new locations. The adoption of spongy moth also aligns the English common name of L. dispar with the French common name ‘Spongieuse”.

Spongy moth is an occasional pest in parts of Eastern Canada and is frequently introduced to other parts the country, in particular when it is transported on goods or vehicles moving from eastern to western Canada. Last year in Ontario the insect defoliated almost 1.8 million hectares of forest.

This notice of this decision follows the announcement today that the Entomological Society of America (ESA) will adopt spongy moth as the new common name for L. dispar. The name was selected by a working group of 50 scientists and professionals from Canada and the United States following an extensive public consultation process. Information gathered by this working group was used by the ESC to inform its decision to adopt spongy moth as the common name in Canada. This decision by the ESC also ensures that the same common name will be used in both countries when communicating about this important forest insect pest. The ESC will adopt this common name for use in The Canadian Entomologist and all other publications produced by the society.

The ESC encourages other organizations in Canada to adopt spongy moth as the new common name when communicating about L. dispar.

Male spongy moth (Lymantria dispar). Photo: S. McCann

 

From: The Canadian Phytopathological Society and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

To: All Canadian researchers in pest management

 Re: 2021 PEST MANAGEMENT RESEARCH REPORT – Insect Pests and Plant Diseases – CALL FOR REPORTS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUBLISHING RESULTS OF THE 2021 CROP YEAR FOR AUTHORS AND SECTION EDITORS

One of the objectives of the Pest Management Research Report (PMRR) is to facilitate the exchange of information on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) among persons involved in research and advisory services on IPM of insect pests and plant diseases of importance to the agri-food industry in Canada. To this end, the PMRR is published annually as a compilation of research reports by federal and provincial government, university and industry research and advisory personnel. These reports aid the development of recommendations for insect and disease management programs throughout Canada. They report on all aspects of pest management, including cultivar and management responses, and are available to support the registration of pest control products.

To increase the value of the report, everyone in Canada who is conducting studies involving pest management in agriculture is urged to report their results from 2021 in the format outlined in the attached guide (also available in French). The reports should ideally be 1-2 pages long and may be submitted in either French or English. Authors are requested to ensure they have the registrants’ approval to submit data about their products to a publicly available journal.

Because the Canadian Agricultural Insect Pest Review is no longer published, the PMRR now includes a section – Surveys and Outbreaks: Insects and Mites, to fill the information gap left by the loss of this annual publication. Results of field surveys to assess presence, abundance and distribution of new or established species can be reported in this section in the same format as for other reports in the PMRR. Reports of insect and mite outbreaks should include acreage of crop infested and location(s), control actions taken or product(s) used to minimize crop loss, crop loss assessment where possible, and results of control actions.

Full writing and submission instructions are here.

The 1995-2020 editions of the PMRR are available for viewing and download at http://phytopath.ca/publication/pmrr/.

Meeting announcement – International Society of Chemical Ecology

We would like to invite you to attend the annual general meeting 5-10 September, 2021. For the first time ever the ISCE annual meeting will be an entirely virtual meeting but numerous mechanisms have been built into the program and platform being used to host the meeting, to facilitate interaction by delegates with each other and the content. The theme of the conference “Chemical Ecology and Sustainable Development” emphasizes the immense potential chemical ecology has to both inform our understanding of the natural world and the potential for practical applications.

Please visit the meeting website (https://isce2021.carlamani.com/) to view the program and register. In addition to being able to participate in the live event 5-10 September, registration provides delegates the opportunity to view talks for 2 months after the meeting. We look forward to seeing you virtually at the meeting. Please don’t hesitate to contact the meeting organizers if you have any questions or concerns.

Best wishes,

Jeremy Allison
Bernard Slippers
Francois Roets
Christian Pirk
(ISCE 2021 Organizing Committee)

Please virtually join us for the 2021 Entomological Society of Canada and Entomological Society of Ontario Joint Annual Meeting

When: 15–18 November 2021

Where: The virtual meeting will be hosted by Showcare. A dedicated virtual meeting website will be announced in the Fall.

Dates to know:

• Registration opens — July 5^th
• Early-bird deadline — August 9^th
• Presentation submission deadline — September 13^th

For more information on the theme of the meeting, keynote speakers and planned symposia: https://www.entsocont.ca/esceso-2021-jam-english.html

We hope to see you virtually in the fall!

Register now!