41st Annual Meeting of the DPG/DGaaE Working Group “Beneficial Arthropods and Entomopathogenic Nematodes” on 26-27.11.2025

Start: 26.11.2025 approx. 1 pm

End: 27.11.2025 approx. 1 pm

Venue: Hochschule Geisenheim University, 65366 Geisenheim

Dr. Christine Dieckhoff
Referat 32: Pflanzenschutz – Obst- und Gartenbau
Sachgebiet Biologischer Pflanzenschutz
Landwirtschaftliches Technologiezentrum Augustenberg
Neßlerstraße 25
76227 Karlsruhe
Christine.Dieckhoff@~@ltz.bwl.de

Prof. Dr. habil. Stefan Kühne
Julius Kühn-Institut
Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung
Stahnsdorfer Damm 81
14532 Kleinmachnow
stefan.kuehne@~@julius-kuehn.de

  • Promoting the exchange of experiences and the cooperation between researchers, producers of beneficial organisms, and consultants
  • Debating studies (incl. unfinished ones)
  • Discussion of biology, behavior, and documentation of beneficial arthropods in the field
  • Methods of preservation, support, cultivation, and application of beneficial organisms
  • Importance of beneficial organisms for plant protection
  • Methods of protection and support
  • Methods of mass cultivation and application
  • Planning and analyzing experiments
  • Quality control
  • Amalgamation with chemical pesticides
  • Documenting the side effects of chemical compounds

Conference participants are researchers from the fields of entomology, ecology, and phytomedicine, from federal and state plant protection services, producers of beneficial organisms, and consultants in biological plant protection.