The areawide ATM Project
Since 1994 the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) funded area-wide integrated pest management projects focusing specifically on invasive species. Area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programs reflect the realization that pest movement requires a large-scale (area-wide) approach that needs to be balanced by the need to minimize the development of insecticide resistance as well as preserve local ecosystems and human health, the core drivers of IPM. Owing to the scale on which they have to be implemented, successful AW-IPM projects have been developed with extensive input from farmers, citizens or pest control professionals. Successful area-wide programs have benefited from experience and ideas generated by the customer-stakeholder base.
The Areawide Management of the Asian tiger mosquito (2008-2013) was the first AW program focused on a disease vector.
PI at USDA-ARS: Gary Clark
PI at Rutgers: Dina M. Fonseca
PI at Brandeis: Donald Shepard
Rutgers co-PIs: Randy Gaugler
George Hamilton
John Worobey
MADs: Ary Farajollahi (Mercer)
Sean Healy (Monmouth)
Greg Williams (Hudson)
Associate Researchers on the Project:
Kristen Bartlett-Healy (Education)
Sebastien Marcombe (Insecticide Resist)
Jiawu Xu (Population Genetics)
Isik Unlu (Surveillance&Control)
Taryn Crepeau (Surveillance&Control)
Oversight Committee:
Daniel Strickman (USDA-ARS)
Daniel Kline (USDA-CMAVE)
Dawn Wesson (U. Tulane)
Roger Nasci (CDC)
George O'Meara (U. Florida, FMEL)
Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez (CDC)
Industry Partners:
Valent BioSciences; Clarke Mosquito Control; Cognis; Agrisense; Wellmark Int.; MGK; Curtis DynaFog; Buffalo Turbine
FL Mosquito Control sub-contractors:
James McNelly (Volusia)
Rudy de Xue (Anastasia)
Collaborators and critics at Large:
Douglas Burkett (US Navy)
Graham White (U. Florida)
Jack Peterson (Rutgers U.)
Warren Staudinger
Dominick Ninnivaggi
Mike Hutchinson
Ilia Rochlin
and other members of Mosquito Control Programs in NJ, NY, PA, VA, LA, CA, FL
ObjectiveDevelop area-wide cost-effective control strategies to reduce populations of Aedes albopictus to NO-nuisance. These are guidelines for local, state, or federal mosquito control programs (professionals) to manage a
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10. Public education CAN work.
9. “Nuisance” Aedes albopictus CAN impact Public Health.
8. The public is WILLING TO PAY for effective control of mosquitoes.
6. Insecticide resistance is PRESENT. Its important to check regularly.
5. Timing is CRITICAL. Use the degree-day model to guide control.
4. Quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) is CRITICAL.
3. Aedes albopictus populations adapt to interventions. Survey often.
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Oversight Commitee Meeting: 5-7 January 2011
Oversight Commitee Meeting: 3-5 January 2012
This research was funded by Cooperative Agreement USDAARS-58-6615-8-105 between USDA-ARS and Rutgers University and Cooperative Agreement USDAARS-58-6615-8-106 between USDA-ARS and Brandeis University.