Introduction routes of the invasive forest pest bark beetle Ips typographus to the UK
Research Status:current
Daegan Inward Katy Reed
This project scopes whether Calosoma sycophanta could be reintroduced as a biocontrol agent for OPM in the UK.
Our Quality and Environmental Standards, Certification and Accreditations Forest Research (FR) is an executive agency of the Forestry Commission, a leader in applied forest science, nationally and internationally. Our research supports the timber economy, climate change mitigation, biodiversity and understanding of people’s relationships to woods and forests. We are in...
June 2025 APHA won a gold medal and Best GreenSTEM exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2025 with their exhibit “Colorado Beetle – a threat to our food security”. Okay it’s not a tree pest but the principles and messages are relevant to trees. Research Surveillance and intelligence...
Overview What leads some farmers to dramatically increase the number of trees on their land? What role do social and cultural values play? And how do values and behaviour interact? This Research Note presents accounts from four farms which have substantially increased tree cover, foregrounding the farmers’ stories to focus...
Explore results from five additional REINFFORCE experiments assessing tree species for UK forestry in a changing climate, now available in our interactive data explorer.
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...
