1. Facing the future without methyl bromide-are alternatives available to this versatile fumigant?

   • Robert Taylor

   Guest Editorial Pages: 3 - 6

2. Sexual competitiveness of Vienna 4/Tol-94 ‘genetic sexing’ sterile mediterranean fruit fly males in Israel

   • Phillip W. Taylor
   • Allon Bear
   • Yoram Rössler

   Research Paper Pages: 7 - 14

3. A novel method for rearing the progeny of wild mediterranean fruit flies using artificial fruit

   • Roy Kaspi
   • Idit Feitelson
   • Boaz Yuval

   Research Paper Pages: 15 - 22

4. Optimization of production of nucleopolyhedrovirus ofHelicoverpa armigera throughout larval stages

   • V. Kalia
   • S. Chaudhari
   • G. T. Gujar

   Research Paper Pages: 23 - 28

5. MonitoringPratylenchus thornei densities in SOCL and roots under resistant (Triticum turgidum durum) and susceptible (Triticum aestivum) wheat cultivars

   • M. Talavera
   • V. A. Van stone

   Research Paper Pages: 29 - 35

6. Transmissibility of four tospoviruses by a thelytokous population ofThrips tabaci from Liguria, Northwestern Italy

   • R. Tedeschi
   • M. Ciuffo
   • L. Tavella

   Research Paper Pages: 37 - 45

7. Testing variability in pathogenicity ofPhytophthora cactorum, P. citrophthora andP. syringae to apple, pear, peach, cherry and plum rootstocks

   • Thomas Thomidis

   Note Pages: 47 - 49

8. Six local thrips (Thysanoptera) new to the Israeli Fauna

   • J. Halperin
   • R. zur Strassen

   New Pest Record Pages: 50 - 50

9. Abstracts of Presentations at the 18th Conference of the Entomological Society of Israel

   • M. P. Pener
   • L. Anshelevich
   • U. Gerson

   Meeting Pages: 51 - 89