Paris Prekas Technician

Paris Prekas obtained his bachelor degree from the Department of Plant Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly in 2019. During his bachelor thesis, as a member of the scientific group of the Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, he studied the phenology/population dynamics of the olive fly Bactrocera oleae in commercial olive groves in Pelion Mountain, and evaluated different trap devices for the monitoring of Tephritidae fruit flies.

He is currently working at the Laboratory of Entomology as a technician, supporting a small/medium scale rearing of several domestic and international populations of Ceratitis capitata (wild, laboratory and Wolbachia infested), in order to support several laboratory experiments (demography, behavior) and field trials (field cages).

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