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This month’s pest alerts include a record of an aphid species that is new to the Netherlands (photo © Ho Jung Yoo, Purdue University – via Wikimedia Commons)

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this month include reports on a species of aphid new to the Netherlands, the first records of Diaporthe gulyae, D. phaseolorum and D. eres in Russia and reports of a new defoliator species, Nematus pumila, in China.

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