13th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP)

Early History of the IWCSPP
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, a group of stored-product entomologists felt like stored-product entomology was outside the mainstream of general entomological meetings. In 1972, a group led by Dr. Bob Davis, from the Stored-Product Insects Research and Development Laboratory in Savannah GA USA, met with other stored-product entomologists at the International Congress of Entomology in Canberra, Australia, and found good support for starting a separate stored-product entomology conference.

The first IWCSPP was held in Savannah GA USA in 1974. Topic areas were: Tropical Stored-Product Entomology, Biology, Ecology, and Integrated Control; Pesticides, Toxicity, and Insect Resistance; Radiation and other Physical Means of Insect Control; and Pesticide Residues, Tolerance, and Registration. Each topic area had 4 to 5 invited speakers, and invited talks were followed by a panel discussion of the topic area. Papers were published in a proceedings. (The Early History of the IWCSPP was adapted from: Davis, R. 1994. The International Working Conferences on Stored-Product Protection. In Highley, E., Wright, E.J., Banks, H.J., and Champ, B.R. (Eds.), Stored Product Protection, Proceedings of the 6th International Working Conference on Stored-Product Protection, 17-23 April 1994, Canberra, Australia. CAB International, Wallingford, United Kingdom.)