German Congress of Entomology 2017

The biennial Entomologist Conference of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DGaaE) in collaboration with the Austrian Entomological Society (ÖEG) and the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG) took place from March 13 to 16, 2017 in Freising. Five people of the Chair of Forest Protection attended the conference and contributed three presentations. The opening event at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich was followed by three days of presentations at the TUM School of Life Sciences in Weihenstephan near Freising on topics such as forest entomology, invasive arthropods, and behaviour and chemical ecology, as well as medical entomology and insects in amber were offered.

Our presentations talked about the current research projects LINA (Richard Georgi: Effect of food availability on longevity and fertility of Schizonotus sieboldi) und bioProtect (Christiane Helbig: „Utilization and regulation of bark beetle antagonists by allochthonous kairomones - First results from the bioProtect joint project). Furthermore we actively participated the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) workshop (Christiane Helbig: „ALB from a forest health point of view“). All presentations will be published as extended abstracts in the next volume of Mitteilungen der DGaaE.