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29 March 2019 Bark beetles that threatens Norway spruce may be defeated with natural enemies The bark beetle, Ips typographus, is a severe insect pest on Norway spruce and reduce timber quality. Harvesting infected timber is a method that is used to get rid of the pest, but this method has problems as the bark beetles may already have moved on to new trees or to soil where most of the bark beetle adults overwinter. Therefore, Maria Sousa is investigating if natural enemies can be used as biological control agents against the bark beetle in her PhD project.
21 March 2019 Johan Stenberg, Professor of integrated plant protection, gives inauguration lecture Johan A. Stenberg is a professor of integrated plant protection since 1 November 2018. His inauguration lecture has the title: "En bukett av vilda växtskyddsåtgärder för framtidens odlare" and will be given on the 10th of May.
04 March 2019 Mattias Jonsson is CBC’s new Director Since the beginning of 2019, the Centre for Biological Control, CBC, has a new Director. Mattias Jonsson from the Department of Ecology takes over after Ingvar Sundh.

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SLU runs the Centre for Biological Control (CBC), with a grant from the Swedish government, and focus on pest control with living organisms. CBC conducts its own research and seeks in addition to collaboration with other researchers in sustainable control strategies. A close cooperation with stakeholders, such as growers, industry, authorities and organisations is an important part of our activities.

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