International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC)
Organisation Internationale de Lutte Biologique (OILB)
The International organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) promotes environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control. It is a voluntary organisation of biological-control workers.
Membership in IOBC gives individuals and organisations the opportunity to participate in biological control activities beyond their specific jobs and workplaces, to step outside their bureaucracies, and to contribute to the promotion of biological control worldwide.
IOBC Regional Sections and Working Groups
APRS |
Asia and the Pacific Regional Section (India, South-East Asia, Japan and Australia) |
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ATRS |
African Tropical Regional Section (African countries south of the Sahara) |
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EPRS |
East Palearctic Regional Section (Eastern Europe) |
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NRS |
Nearctic Regional Section (North America) |
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NTRS |
Neotropical Regional Section (Latin-American countries) |
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WPRS |
West Palearctic Regional Section (Europe, Mediterranean Region, Near- and Middle East) |
- Mass Rearing and Quality Assurance
- Aphidophaga
- BC and Mgmt. of Eupatorieae Weeds
- Exotic Biocontrol Agents
- IWGO - Ostrinia and other maize pests
- BC and Management of Parthenium Weed
- BC of Diamondback Moth
- More working groups within Regional Sections
Commission
Latest News and Events
Sustainable Pest Management
Your Opinion About Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Pest Management
A consortium of 14 international and interdisciplinary researchers lead by Niklas Möhring (CEBC-CNRS, France) and Robert Finger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is aiming to identify key challenges and solutions for sustainable pest management in the heterogeneous global agriculture. We would be very grateful if you would answer the survey.
Next Biocontrol Training
Biocontrol Training and Financial Support
Check out the list of upcoming training courses!
IOBC-Global may financially support participation of young career biological control scientist (< 35 years) who are member of one of the Regional Sections of IOBC, so they can take part in a training course. Get the details about funding conditions and application.
Share Your Career Path
How did you become a biological control practitioner?
There is no straightforward answers to this questions as there are many roads to obtain a position in biological control.
Check out the shared career paths to become a biological control practitioner!
Share your own career path, a few sentences (and an optional picture) will suffice: secretary-general@iobc-global.org
Ecology of Aphidophaga
15th meeting of the IOBC-Global WG "Ecology of Aphidophaga", Lleida, Spain.
The purpose of Aphidophaga is to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on organisms contributing to the mortality of aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Aphidophagous organisms include predators, parasitoids and pathogens of aphids.
HPIS 2022
HPIS 2022, International Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium,
7-9 Dec. 2022,
Melbourne, Australia.
The HPIS is an interdisciplinary, international congress, bringing together researchers who study phytophagous piercing/sucking insects, their complex interactions with their host plants, environment and pathogen transmission.
ICBI 2023
4th International Congress on Biological Invasions (ICBI2023),
1-4 May 2023
Christchurch (Ōtautahi), New Zealand (Aotearoa).
The biennial Better Border Biosecurity (B3) Conference will follow on 5 May 2023.
ISBCW 2023
ISBCW: XVI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds,
Meeting of the IOBC-Global Study Group "Classical Weed Biological Control"
07-12 May 2023
Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina.
27th ICE Congress 2024
27th ICE Congress 2024, International Congress of Entomology,
25-30 August 2024
Kyoto, Japan.
Safe the Date!
IOBC-Global Newsletter
Newsletter 111, August 2022
The Newsletter is the main way to inform all our members (and non-members) around the world.
Newsletter 111 (pdf)
Enjoy reading!
Newsletter contributions, ideas, comments: Contact secretary-general@iobc-global.org
BioControl
The Official Journal of IOBC
Impact Factor: 2.581 (2021)
Latest Issue:
Volume 67, Issue 4, Aug. 2022, Table of Contents
Publish your next paper in BioControl!
Working on a manuscript right now? We encourage you to consider publishing in BioControl.
Have an idea for a Special Issue? We are open to suggestions for special issues!
Online submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/bico
Book Announcement
Improving integrated pest management in horticulture, Rosemary Collier, 486 pages, March 2022.
Book Announcement
Control Biológico en América Latina y el Caribe: Su rica historia y futuro brillante
(Spanish version of Biological Control in Latin America and the Caribbean)
Editado por: Joop C van Lenteren, Vanda H P Bueno, María Gabriela Luna, Yelitza C Colmenarez.
Now available.
Book Announcement
Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management
Edited by: Peter G. Mason,
Oct. 2021 (hardback), 664 pp.
New IOBC Study Group
The new IOBC-Global Study Group "Classical Weed Biological Control" is an extension of the venerable International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds (ISBCW).
We are very pleased to welcome the distinguished group of scientists represented by this group into our family of Working/Study Groups.
IOBC History Book
IOBC: History of the First 50 Years (1956-2006).
Edited by: Boller, E.F., J.C. van Lenteren and V. Delucchi, 287 pp.
The book is available as free PDF.
Writing Partnership
Non-native English speakers sometimes need help in preparing scientific articles for publication in English language journals.