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...
Overview Resilience to climate change, the threat of pests and diseases, tackling the biodiversity crisis, and the implications of these issues for the future of the tree and woodland sector are necessarily being foregrounded in management discussions. Sycamore is a naturalised, fast-growing, and adaptable species with increasing evidence to support...
Pest and disease resources and advice from Forest Research
A selection of posters that can be downloaded as PDFs and then printed at a size to suit (up to A0 size). These were mostly produced for the 2012 APF show and have been popular as posters to display in offices or places of work. Each poster shows a selection...
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.
Sources of information about plant health regulations applying to the import and export of plants, wood and related materials now that the UK has left the European Union
Overview of common pests and pathogens of horse chestnut.
This report reviews and summarises some of the key evidence from around the world on values associated with ash trees, and the management decisions about both ash dieback and emerald ash borer. The evidence on values focuses on historical, social and cultural values while the parts on management decisions looks...
Ash dieback is a disease of ash trees caused by a fungus called Chalara fraxinea. The disease causes leaf loss and crown dieback in affected trees and it may lead to tree death. This Pest Alert provides information on distribution, symptoms, how the disease spreads and what you can do...
Plane wilt, also known as canker stain disease, is a serious disorder of plane trees, which are important amenity trees in the parks and avenues of many European cities. The disease is caused by the fungus Ceratocystis platani, which is present in the USA and Europe, but considered to be...
