INSECT VECTORS OF PLANT DISEASES

Firstly, I hope everyone is keeping safe, well and as stress-free as realistically possible in these strange and troubling times. This is...

The day of my fourth and final Philaenus spumarius collection of the year dawned most inauspiciously, with grey skies and torrential...

Yesterday, Dr Alan Stewart and I headed back to the Knepp wildland project, which you may remember from my earlier post describing the...

In view of the end-of-the-world rain we had all day on Monday, I was somewhat concerned about how soggy I was going to get during...

On Wednesday this week, Dr Alan Stewart and I joined other members of the BRIGIT research consortium to deliver a "Biosecurity and...

One of the aims of the BRIGIT project is to get a better understanding of the ecology and population structure of the 18 or so froghopper...

So, once you've spotted your spittle, how on earth do you know which froghopper species you might be looking at? Well, a reasonable...

I spotted the first signs of #xylem-feeders in my garden at the weekend, with #spittle appearing on some hedge bindweed (Calystegia...