Dear INSAM,DSSAT,AGROMET-L members, Regards and wishes, In the WMO's "Lecture notes for training agricultural meteorological personnel"preared by Jon Wieringa and Jakob Lomas,Second edition,2001, as WMO-no.551 ,under Chater 8 --Oerational agrometeorology--in page no 129 it is mentioned as followed. The need for --------.Another insect pest which can only be controlled by close cooperation between meteorologists and entomologists is the codling moth-----when the catch becomes significant ,'Biofix day',is decided for the area around the station,as the starting day for accumulating degree days with base temerature 10 degrees C,and ceiling temerature 32 degrees C.First pesticide spray alert is at when accumulated growing degree days reach 640 from "biofix'----. My question is--- where is such research as also operational agrometeorological service /forecast is going on in the world now ? I shall be happy to interact with him/them if the exact address as also E-mail ID's of scientists /extension workers is provided to me. Murthy. _________________________________________________________________ Win a trip to Singapore! http://eu.xmts.net/80450 Experience the magic!