The DEEIT team contributed to a television report dealing with biological pest control.  It will be broadcasted on Arte the 11th of  october at 22h40 (rediffusion the following days on Arte +7). The film is entitled  « The new warriors of the fields » by Claude-Julie Parisot. It is a documentary lasting 50 min on biological pest control: researches, applications, stakes…10 minutes are dedicated to the researches of DEEIT on Cotesia sesamiae, a little parasitoïd wasp which lays its eggs in a lepidopteran caterpillar.

Here are the links to visualize teasers of the documentary in french and in english: http://www.galaxie-presse.fr/fiche/les-nouveaux-guerriers-des-champs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6X4W7ZK1QA.

This film is selected for the Parisciences festival and will be shown the 9th of october at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (from 16h to 17h30, including debate). Coming is free of charge, but registrating is compulsory because the number of seats is restricted.

Please register here: https://pariscience.fr/session/les-nouveaux-guerriers-des-champs/

The collective book of GDR 3692 is available. Here are its references:

On the web site of ISTE Editions (UK)

Nicolas Pollet (POLYGNOME) published in collaboration with colleagues an article reporting the synchrotron analysis of a mummified salamander dating from Eocene. This analysis allowed a phylogenetic analysis of the mummy: the fossil belongs to the pseudosaurian caudates.To read the article.

Paul-André Calatayud’s (DEEIT) team published an article in collaboration with scientists from ICIPE center which results open avenues on effects  of climate change on insect pest populations in east Africa. This article was the subject of a short publication on INEE web site.

Speciation is a rare phenomenon. Yet in Mayotte scientists (among them Jean David, IGGIPOP) described a population of D. yacuba drosophila feeding on the fruit of the Morinda tree which is toxic to flies on the african continent. This could provides the geographic isolation and the ecological specialization that are necessary to speciation.

The article was published in PNAS. It was also the subject of a short article on the INEE site.