Improving Integrated Pest Management of Drosophila suzukii.

Our objective is to explore a novel nature-based solution, grounded on plants as bio-factories of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that
have already proven to be able to deter oviposition of Drosophila suzukii or spotted-wing drosophila (SWD). The ambition is to introduce
those plant bio-factories into integrated pest management practices for SWD, which is a polyphagous pest causing severe economic
damage to the fruit sector, and that nowadays is mostly controlled with broad-spectrum pesticides, which constitutes a concern for the
sustainability, biodiversity and productivity of the fruit sector. The vision behind this coordinated research project is to set the scientific
basis for a change in the mode that insect pests are controlled, particularly on red-soft-skinned fruit production.