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This report provides a review of the Forest Trapping Network Year Two rollout

Summary This Letter to the Editor of the international journal ‘Phytopathology’ lays out the case for retaining the historic and well recognised name Phytophthora, which is applied to a genus of highly significant plant destroying pathogens. The authors’ case is based on strong biological and genetic evidence, but also emphasises...

How will the changing environment impact bark-boring insects? Climate change projections indicate more frequent extreme weather events, such as storms, heatwaves, droughts, and floods. One of the likely consequences of this will be an abundance of stressed trees with weakened defences against pests, creating favourable conditions for some species of...

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