FLICS - Flystrike & Lice IPM Control Strategies

 

Wool Pesticide Residues	All session 1 abstracts
Pesticide Residue Situation in Europe	Mike Madden
Ecolabels: An opportunity to identify low residue wool in the market place	Ian Russell
Pesticide residues on Australian wool	Tony Brightling
Progress report on the NRA review of Sheep Ectoparasiticides and related Organophosphate reviews	Joan Ashton
Validating the assumptions in the Australian NRA environmental risk assessment protocol for sheep ectoparasiticides	Ian Russell
Integrating "Best Practice" chemicals use and residues management with regulation - a challenge for both the wool industry and the NRA	Joan Ashton
The potential to value add to the Australian residue monitoring survey	Di Evans
Wool residue breakdown model: wool blending models to estimate sale lot maximum concentrations and wool harvesting intervals	Brian Horton
Biology and population dynamics	All session 2 abstracts
The biology of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) - an update	Keith Wardhaugh
The utilisation of carcasses by Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) as a breeding site in Tasmania	Mick Lang
Factors affecting the incidence of flystrike - the description and analysis of data from three separate geographical areas in eastern Australia	Keith Wardhaugh
The development of a predictive model for spring emergence of Lucilia cuprina	Lynette Mcleod
Biology and population dynamics of sheep lice: Implications for control	Peter James
Chemicals	All session 3 abstracts
The NRA's role in the regulation of Sheep Ectoparasiticides	Katie O'Brien
The registration and label approval process for sheep ectoparasiticides	Linden Moffatt
Ecology, evolution and the effective use of pesticides	John McKenzie
Implications of insecticide resistance to the control of flystrike and lice on sheep	Garry Levot
Sheep lice and the economic production of low residue wool	Peter James
Fleece distribution at shearing from an off-shears application of an IGR backline treatment	Ian Russell
Diazinon residues in soil following surface disposal of spent dip wash	Garry Levot
Chemical application	All session 4 abstracts
Company stewardship of ectoparasiticides	BC Hosking
Development of an insect development inhibitor for the control of Bovicola ovis in sheep	Nicholas Sherwood
The use of Spinosad in integrated pest management systems.  The tactical control of blowfly strike and salvage treatment of lousy sheep with long wool.	Jim Rothwell
A summary of laboratory and field collected data on the efficacy provided by a diflubenzuron spray-on formulation against sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina	Ian Ridley
Improving the performance of Automatic Jetting Races (AJRs) for the protection of sheep from flystrike	Roger Lund
Improved design and use of shower and plunge dipping equipment for the eradication of sheep body lice (Bovicola ovis)	Roger Lund
Changes in concentrations of Diazinon in shower and plunge dip dip-wash using constant replenishment	Roger Lund
Low residue Diprite dipping with the Richards Immersion-Cage sheep dip	David Chandler
New Technology	All session 5 abstracts
Sheep susceptibility and immune response to lice: potential for manipulation	Peter James
Progress on vaccination against the sheep blowfly	Vern Bowles
A novel approach to vaccination against the sheep blowfly	Vern Bowles
Genetic control of Lucilia cuprina, past and present options	Rod Mahon
Biological control of flystrike: use of live bacterial vectors to deliver insecticidal proteins and insecticidal double stranded RNA	Robert Moore
The application of Wolbachia genomics to the control of flystrike	Tim Doran
Novel protease inhibitors for control of sheep blowfly and other insects	Mark Sandeman
Novel targets for control of the sheep blowfly and other insect pests	Vern Bowles
Fly-traps	All session 6 abstracts
Improving the Lucitrap and Lucilure	Rudolph Urech
Flytrapping in Tasmania: Effective use of traps in a cool temperate climate	Brian Horton
Blowfly traps and prevention of flystrike: The New Zealand experience	ACG Heath
The application of trapping, using the Lucitrap system, in an integrated blowfly management program in South Africa	Ansie Scholtz
Use of Lucitraps by groups of woolgrowers to control flystrike	M Ward
Flytrapping in Tasmania: use of traps for flystrike control and monitoring fly populations	Brian Horton
Estimating population densities of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from catches in wind-oriented traps	Keith Wardhaugh
'Baitbins', Time Series Analysis and Lucilia cuprina.	Lynette McLeod
Lice management	All session 7 abstracts
Lice Eradication groups - Reducing chemical dependence by eradicating lice on a district basis	Ted Scarlett
Local lice action groups - can they work	Di Evans
Optimising the sensitivity of sheep inspection for detecting lice	Peter James
Development of a lice detection test for "on-farm" use	Wojtek Michalski
Partial flock treatments as a strategy for low residue long wool louse control	Peter James
Liceman - a decision making computer program	Ted Scarlett
Flystrike management	All session 8 & 9 abstracts
The cutting edge (An account of mulesing in Tasmania)	Alan Jones
Future options to reduce reliance on surgical mulesing	John Karlsson
A benefit-cost analysis of the Mules operation to the Australian sheep flock	David Counsell
Specialist forages - a role in flystrike management?	Dave Leathwick
Breeding for resistance to flystrike	All session 8 & 9 abstracts
Breeding for resistance to fly strike	Ian Colditz
Blowfly strike of Merino sheep in relation to selection strategy, as well as to objective and subjective wool traits	Schalk Cloete
Current research by NSW Agriculture on the genetics of flystrike resistance	Sue Mortimer
Flystrike resistance in the breeding programs of ram breeding flocks	Sue Mortimer
Flystrike resistance in breeding programs for commercial flocks	Sue Mortimer
Farming Systems	All session 10 abstracts
Farmer attitudes to external parasite control	R. Murray-Prior
Farmer perceptions of flystrike	Jan Horton
Wool producer knowledge of flystrike control	Jan Horton
Some current sheep management strategies for low residue fly and lice control	Jan Horton
Queensland producers' needs in relation to fly and lice control	Wendy McLeish
The Sheeplink activity - A strategy for managing blowflies and lice in dry tropical pastoral regions	Wendy McLeish
Changes in management practices and pesticides used by Queensland producers to control blowflies and lice	R. Armstrong
What is the likely impact of farmer training	Di Evans
The potential application of HACCP based management systems	Di Evans
Using IPM for sustainable ectoparasite control	John Karlsson
Towards an integrated sheep parasite decision support system. Part I. Sheep blowfly strike	Gunter Maywald