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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.
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.
Daegan Inward Katy Reed
This project scopes whether Calosoma sycophanta could be reintroduced as a biocontrol agent for OPM in the UK.
The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) is a Great Britain-wide, broad-spectrum surveillance network which monitors for GB priority pest and EU quarantine organisms that other survey methods are unable to detect. The FTN is a rolling programme which will survey 4-6 woodlands withing 100 forests for quarantine pests over five years.
The disease Dothistroma needle blight (DNB), caused by pathogen Dothistroma septosporum, decreases tree resilience, causes significant timber losses, sometimes mortality, and has led to large-scale species change on the Public Forest Estate across Britain. This research aims to determine whether genetically distinct populations of the foliar pine pathogen, D. septosporum...
This is a collaboration with tree health scientists to explore new and emerging pest threats to priority tree species and new woodlands. We aim to assess the risks posed by established pests under current and future climates, and the most likely invasion pathways for key invasive pests.
There is a need to raise awareness about the potential risks of introducing pests and diseases through seed movement and trade.
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