This page provides video or slide show resources related to webinars and other presentations by DPI Entomology staff.
Fall armyworm update (with a focus on winter fodder and grain crops)
Presentation by Melina Miles in April 2024. View a recording of the webinar (top) or see the slideshow as rolling images (underneath).
GRDC Grains Research Update – FAW management considerations and risk assessment – 23 February 2024
Topics covered include Agronomist experience with FAW this season (Ross Pomroy, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Dalby); The relationship between canopy damage and yield. Insights from current threshold trials with maize and sorghum (Joe Eyre, University of Qld, QAAFI); and Key management considerations and risk assessment for FAW (Melina Miles, Qld Department of Primary Industries)
NSW DPI & QDAF autumn insect webinar – 4 May 2023
Zorica Duric (NSW DPIRD) and Melina Miles and Tonia Grundy (QLD DPI) provide an update on key summer pests and prospects for the upcoming season on aphids, establishment pests, and other things to be aware of. Recorded May 2023 (59 minutes). Links to further information are provided in the video’s description on the NSW DPIRD’s YouTube channel (at https://youtu.be/_JDWNGExq-s).
Pest prospects for spring – 8 September 2022
Online update presented by Melina Miles, Hugh Brier and Adam Quade (QLD DPI) and Zorica Duric (NSW DPIRD) on potential pest issues this year following the recent wetter seasons in many areas. (46 mins)
Older presentations
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- FAW in sorghum (seminar hosted by AgBitech; November 2021 – opens in YouTube). Presenters include Dr Melina Miles (QDPI), Brock Welch, (AgBiTech US – Kansas), and Gustavo Shiomi and Murilo Moreira (AgBiTech Brazil)
- Subtropical dairy industry presentation on FAW in forage (includes segment by Melina Miles only; September 2021 – opens in YouTube)
- GRDC update webinar on FAW (March 2021). Includes recording and Update paper.
- GRDC update webinar on FAW (November 2020). Includes recording and Update paper.
- FAW for horticulture agronomists presentation (August 2020)
- An Invertebrate pest management in maize presentation (August 2020) includes planning for FAW.
- Field crop pests (NSW) (June 2020)
- Northern Grains Region Seasonal Update (Qld) (May 2020)
- FAW Q&A session (May 2020)
- RWA as a pest in the northern grains region (July 2017)
- Preparing for Russian Wheat Aphid (RWA) in the northern grains region (January 2017)