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UWA's School of Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD student Isabel Aravelo-Vigne has recently returned from the 9 ^th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance. This symposium, which is held every four years, was held this year in Thailand, and was attended by more than 350 people from all over the world including Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the USA, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France and Spain.

Participants shared the recent results of research in technology, policy, economics and management of fruit flies around the globe. Isabel's research at UWA is around evaluating methods to communicate fruit fly management to farmers and the public. She presented two posters at the symposium on the factors involved in the adoption of control methods for Mediterranean fruit fly in Western Australia. Both of these posters are available to view via the links below.

During her trip to Thailand Isabel also had the opportunity to visit some fruit growing areas under Area Wide Management of fruit fly. There she learned about the work regional governments are implementing to incentivise people to sustain control treatments on their properties, and how farmers are taking ownership of the project; experience that will help to inform her research for Western Australia.

Photo shows Isabel with Watchreeporn Orankanok, Director Pest Management Division, Department of Agricultural Extension, Thailand; the organiser of the conference in Thailand.

Media references

Isabel Aravelo-Vigne https://www.are.uwa.edu.au/research/postgrads?profile/1/id/2803

Posters are available at: https://www.pbcrc.com.au/sites/default/files/managedfiles/PosterS1_010_Breaking_the_code_sm.pdf

https://www.pbcrc.com.au/sites/default/files/managedfiles/Poster_S1_011_Know_thy_neighbour_sm.pdf