Resources for Pest Management

Our facilities include:

• Specific site with a perpetual carrot fly population
• Specific site for cabbage root fly trials
• Specific site for lettuce aphid trials
• An insect rearing unit which provides material for laboratory and field experiments
• Containment facilities for work on exotic pests
• Range of glasshouses and polytunnels
• Laboratory facilities - a large one for general insect work, a smaller lab for the production of artificial diets for insect rearing
• Ten controlled environment rooms of different sizes, where temperature and daylength can be set

Contact

If you are interested in accessing our facilities, please contact Sally Mann

Research expertise:

Rosemary Collier - modelling interactions between insects and the environment, host-plant finding behaviour of phytophagous insects, and development of Integrated Pest Management systems for the pests of field vegetable and bulb crops.

Dave Chandler - Integrated Pest Management, biological control, fungal control of insect and mite pests

Andy Jukes - insecticide trials, residue analysis

Find out more about our Pest Research

If you are interested in working with us, please contact