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This project evaluates the potential use of detection dogs to support spruce movement inspections within demarcated areas in England, helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of efforts to control Ips typographus outbreaks.
Imogen Cavadino-Phillips
Identification of Ips typographus can be difficult when samples are damaged, degraded, or do not contain adult beetles. Two different molecular tests are being developed to aid the identification of Ips typographus in the lab and field, improving our ability to diagnose the pest rapidly and accurately.
This document is an Annex to the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme 2022 Review, and reports on the third year of the WPHSN activities undertaken on behalf of the Welsh Government. It describes a network of insect and spore traps placed at strategic woodland sites across Wales to monitor...
The National Conversation project aims to lay the foundations for a national conversation on plant and tree health and biosecurity, by developing our understanding of the public’s awareness, attitudes, motivations and actions around the topic and exploring opportunities to encourage action for plant health and biosecurity through targeted interventions.
This report summarises the results of a national baseline survey on public attitudes to plant health.
Daegan Inward Katy Reed
Daegan Inward Katy Reed
This project scopes whether Calosoma sycophanta could be reintroduced as a biocontrol agent for OPM in the UK.
Not present in UK Notifiable – see ‘Report a sighting’ below Scientific name – Agrilus fleischeri (A. fleischeri) Agrilus fleischeri is an important pest of aspen and poplar (trees in the genus Populus). Willows (Salix spp.) have also been recorded as hosts of this pest, which is native to East-Asia....
Not present in UK Notifiable – See ‘Report a sighting’ below Scientific name – Neocerambyx raddei (N. raddei) Photo © Kirill V. Makarov Deep mountain longhorn beetle, also known as Oak longhorn beetle (Neocerambyx raddei, previously known as Massicus raddei), is a major pest of Asian oak species such as Quercus mongolica...
