Interactive map of Europe's suitability for the Japanese beetle

Interactive map of Europe's suitability for the Japanese beetle Interactive map of Europe's suitability for the Japanese beetle

Here is an interactive map showing the suitability of Europe for the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica). 

This map is the result of our INRAE team's modelling efforts and shows predictions of environmental suitability. You can read more about this work in our previous blog post and in our recent publication (Borner et al., 2023).

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Predicting the probability of Japanese beetle establishment in Europe: the first building block of a risk-based surveillance strategy

Predicting the probability of Japanese beetle establishment  © INRAE, Davide Martinetti &  Leyli Borner Predicting the probability of Japanese beetle establishment

As we've said before, a good strategy for early detection of an invasion is to consider the risk of invasion. By modelling the environmental suitability of Europe for the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) and therefore the risk of its establishment, our INRAE team has laid the first building block of a surveillance strategy. This work has recently been published (Borner et al., 2023; https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2023/2073) and we describe the main results here.

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