Artificial light and integrated pest management
Place: Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås. Meeting room Schøyen.
Time: 3rd October 2013, 09:00-16:00.
Program
09:00-09:10
Welcome (Arne Hermansen, director Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and
Environmental Research)
09:10-09:30
Lighting technology and responses of insects to light (Nina Svae Johansen,
Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research)
09:35-09:55
Effects of artificial lighting on the host-plants of the pests (Sissel Torre, Norwegian
University of Life Science)
10:00-10:20
Plant mediated effects of artificial lighting on arthropods and tritophic interactions
(Irene Vänninen, Agrifood Research Finland MTT, Plant Protection Research)
10:25-10:40
Coffee break
10:40-11:00
When insects search for hosts: The role of vision and odour (Geir Kjølberg Knutsen,
Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research).
11:05-11:25
Influence of light quality on host plant choice and biology of the greenhouse
whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) (Nina Svae Johansen, Norwegian Institute of
Agricultural and Environmental Research)
11:30-11:50
Prospecting the use of artificial lighting for integrated pest management (Irene
Vänninen, Agrifood Research Finland MTT, Plant Protection Research)
12:00-12:45
Lunch
12:45-13:05
Experiences with integrated pest management in artificial lighted crops – the
growers/advisors view (Annichen Smith Eriksen, Norwegian Advisory Team
Glasshous Crops)
13:10-13:30
Impact of supplemental lighting on greenhouse pests and pollinators (Les Shipp,
13:35-13:55
Light-sticky traps for mass-trapping of western flowerthrips (Nina Svae Johansen,
Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research)
14:00-14:15
Coffe break
14:15-14:35
How Ostrobothnian growers have developed sticky-trap based thresholds for
whitefly control decision making in artificially lighted crops (Irene Vänninen,
Agrifood Research Finland MTT, Plant Protection Research)
14:40-15:00
Effect of LED lighting in autumn on arthropods on remontant strawberry and
primocane raspberries (Nina Trandem, Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and
Environmental Research)
15:00-15:20
UV-radiation for mildew control (Aruppillai Suthaparan, Norwegian University of
Life Science)
15:30-16:00
Discussion and closing of the seminar.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Greenhouse and Processing Crops)