Pests
What we do
Pest control - novel methods of controlling the pest insects of edible and ornamental crops
- Insecticides
- Biological control
- Physical and cultural control
- Host-plant resistance
- Monitoring and forecasting pest insect attacks
- Research on insect behaviour and host-plant finding - companion planting
- FlyIPM - Integrated control of root-feeding fly larvae infesting vegetable crops
Key pests: Pests of carrot, cabbage root fly, aphids, onion thrips, allium leaf miner, cabbage whitefly, diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, swede midge, lettuce root aphid, bean seed fly