BBSRC National Bioscience Research Infrastructure: Rothamsted Insect Survey
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) is a unique NBRI tasked with strategic surveillance and monitoring of pest beneficial and non-target invertebrates across Great Britain as well as curating the world’s most extensive long-term standardised invertebrate time series and archive for global collaboration. Our work is fundamental to inform biodiversity and pest management research policy climate change and landscape impacts.
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- Rothamsted Research (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Leeds (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- KEELE UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board (Collaboration)
- UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- Rothamsted Research (Collaboration)
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Reading (Collaboration)
- Crop Health and Protection (Collaboration)
Publications
Bell J
(2024)
How aphids fly: Take-off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration
in Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Blumgart D
(2023)
Floral enhancement of arable field margins increases moth abundance and diversity.
in Journal of insect conservation
Bourhis Y
(2023)
Explainable neural networks for trait-based multispecies distribution modelling-A case study with butterflies and moths
in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Evans L
(2024)
Population links between an insectivorous bird and moths disentangled through national-scale monitoring data
in Ecology Letters
Luke S
(2023)
Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades
in Insect Conservation and Diversity
Romanowski H
(2024)
Swift sampling of farmland aerial invertebrates offers insights into foraging behaviour in an aerial insectivore
in Wildlife Biology
Saleh Ziabari O
(2023)
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly.
in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
| Description | Written evidence submitted by Rothamsted Research: Rothamsted Insect Survey (INS0020) Insect decline and UK food security Inquiry The Rothamsted Insect Survey's Contribution to Insect Decline Research |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/event/18023/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ |
| Description | A Comprehensive Sugar Beet Virus Yellows Model |
| Amount | £218,517 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Beet Research Organisation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Drivers and Repercussions of UK Insect Declines (DRUID) |
| Amount | £2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/V00686X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Envision DTP "Reclaiming the night sky for moths: what drives the flight-to-light response and how can this be mitigated?" |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 04/2027 |
| Description | High speed imaging camera for cross-disciplinary animal, plant and soil sciences research and knowledge exchange |
| Amount | £186,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| Description | SWBIO DTP: Long-term changes in the abundance and phenology of migrating insects as potential drivers of population change in insectivorous birds and bats |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | SWBIO-DTP Flight-to-light and the decline in British moths |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | SWBio DTP - 'Understanding the roles of behavioural ecology, genes, plant hosts and fuel for flight to predict the migratory range of aphids' |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Supporting new IPM Decisions using the Virus Yellows Model (StatBeet) |
| Amount | £559,252 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RP10931-10 |
| Organisation | British Beet Research Organisation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Title | A New Comprehensive Virus Yellows Model to Inform Defra/Health & Safety Executive's Sugar Beet Derogation |
| Description | The statistical model, driven by Rothamsted Insect Survey's long term aphid data, predicted that 83% of the national sugar beet area will be affected by virus yellows by the end of August 2024. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The statistical model was used to inform the decision to apply Cruiser SB (a neonicotinoid) to Sugar Beet Seed for the 2024 Crop. The model showed that the 65% trigger threshold, cited in the derogation for the use of Cruiser SB, was met. The forecast had national impact. |
| URL | https://bbro.co.uk/media/51221/24-advisory-bulletin-2.pdf |
| Title | Comprehensive Virus Yellows Model for 2025 |
| Description | The statistical model, driven by Rothamsted Insect Survey's long term aphid data, predicted that 16.9% of the national sugar beet area will be affected by virus yellows by the end of August 2025. The date of the first arrival of Myzus persicae in crops in 2025 is forecasted from 12th May. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The statistical model was used to inform a British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) Advisory Bulletin focused on the control of Virus Yellows in the Sugar Beet crop for 2025. |
| URL | https://bbro.co.uk/media/51406/25-advisory-bulletin-23.pdf |
| Title | Insect Survey Data Requests |
| Description | The Rothamsted Insect Survey's long-term data are of unquestionable importance providing information on aphids, larger moths, and many other migrating insects to academia, growers, conservation organisations and individuals. As such these data have a wide range of fundamental and applied uses. In the period from December 2024 until 6 March 2025 the automated data request system received 89 data requests with 104,101 records downloaded. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The downloaded data enabled the recipients to conduct their research with likely outputs including talks, papers, and support for funding applications. |
| URL | https://insectdatabase.rothamsted.ac.uk/login |
| Title | Swift manuscript dataset |
| Description | Abstract: The common swift, Apus apus, is an obligate aerial, migratory, insectivorous bird, that has experienced significant declines in the UK since the 1990s. Reductions in the availability of prey during their summer breeding season in the UK are likely to be a key factor in this decline. This dataset is part of a short communication that aims to contribute new insights into the current foraging behaviours of adult swifts feeding their nestlings, as a means of provoking new conversation and stimulating further work. Methods: Food bolus samples are small ball-like structures containing the insect prey that is regurgitated to nestlings. Boluses from adult swifts provisioning their nestlings were collected incidentally at a breeding colony in Suffolk, UK. These were taxonomically identified and compared to corresponding daily insect catches from a nearby Rothamsted Insect Survey suction-trap operating within the foraging area of common swifts. There was a distinction between contents of the bolus samples and the suction-trap samples, whereby larger bodied aerial invertebrates appeared in greater numbers in bolus samples. This was evidenced by the relatively high numbers of agriculturally important species, pollen beetles and cabbage stem flea beetles, in bolus samples compared to low numbers in suction-traps. Smaller invertebrates such as aphids (Aphididae), parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera), and thrips (Thysanoptera) were not frequent in the bolus samples, relative to the high numbers identified from the suction-trap catch. Technical Information Spatial Information Geolocation Point (Latitude, Longitude) : ( 52.2219, 0.9404 ) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | https://data.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/f8be70f5-c039-4643-8155-bf20cb6305cc |
| Description | API development for automated access to RIS datasets |
| Organisation | Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Scoping discussions with the AHDB to assess the required API functionality and intended use. Planning for API development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided information concerning the desired API functionality and insights as to how such functionally would assist them deploy a spray Decision Support System. |
| Impact | No outputs to date. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | BIOSCAN - Sanger |
| Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The BIOSCAN project aims to study the genetic diversity of 1,000,000 flying insects from across the UK. Insects from 100 sites will be collected on a monthly basis for five years by project partners and then analysed at the Sanger using DNA barcoding. The resulting sequence data will provide a baseline characterisation of insect species diversity over space and time and thus form a much needed resource for DNA-based biomonitoring in the UK. We have a taken on 3 traps, 2 situated at the Rothamsted Research Harpenden site (Hertfordshire) and 1 at Rothamsted Research Brooms Barn site (Suffolk). We set up a 24-hour malaise trap, collect the sample, sort the sample into 96-well PCR plates which are then sent off to Sanger for DNA extraction, sequencing and DNA barcoding. We have currently agreed to run these traps initially for the first 2-years and will likely extend this up to 5-years (length of the project). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sanger provides all material and associated sequencing/DNA barcoding costs. Sanger will provide us with the DNA barcode identification of the invertebrates caught in the traps. Additionally, Sanger has agreed to DNA barcode some of our archived samples of Aphis spp. in order to help identify the species routinely caught but are difficult to identify to species. This will be of great benefit to the Rothamsted Insect Survey. |
| Impact | Contacts with the Sanger team and further help the Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) with potential ideas of using the archive specimens. Sanger will provide the RIS with the DNA barcodes of the specimens caught in the malaise traps. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with participants of the 'Supporting new IPM Decisions using the Virus Yellows Model (StatBeet)' project |
| Organisation | Keele University |
| Department | School of Life Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Providing access to unpublished data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The StatBeet project team (Andrew Mead (Rothamsted), Nikki Sewpersad (Rothamsted), James Bell (Keele) are using historical RIS data (for Brooms Barn and Kirton), and associated weather data, to construct empirical relationships between the date of first flight and aphid abundance to mid-June. |
| Impact | Project is still ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with participants of the 'Supporting new IPM Decisions using the Virus Yellows Model (StatBeet)' project |
| Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Providing access to unpublished data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The StatBeet project team (Andrew Mead (Rothamsted), Nikki Sewpersad (Rothamsted), James Bell (Keele) are using historical RIS data (for Brooms Barn and Kirton), and associated weather data, to construct empirical relationships between the date of first flight and aphid abundance to mid-June. |
| Impact | Project is still ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | DRUID Project collaborator - CEH |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We will provide evidence and expertise for an analysis of insect declines for the DRUID project, exploiting all of our resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As part of the DRUID project, funded by NERC and led by Bill Kunin at Leeds, the team will study insect declines. Full project collaborators are Leeds, CEH, Reading and Rothamsted (NE/V006916/1). Although we have had collaborations with CEH before, this is new and a direct link to Richard Pywell, Claire Carvell and their staff. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DRUID Project collaborator - LEEDS |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Geography Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will provide evidence and expertise for an analysis of insect declines for the DRUID project, exploiting all of our resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As part of the DRUID project, funded by NERC and led by Bill Kunin at Leeds, the team will study insect declines. Full project collaborators are Leeds, CEH, Reading and Rothamsted (NE/V006916/1) |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DRUID Project collaborator - Reading |
| Organisation | University of Reading |
| Department | School of Agriculture, Policy and Development Reading |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will provide evidence and expertise for an analysis of insect declines for the DRUID project, exploiting all of our resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As part of the DRUID project, funded by NERC and led by Bill Kunin at Leeds, the team will study insect declines. Full project collaborators are Leeds, CEH, Reading and Rothamsted (NE/V006916/1) |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Evolutionary time-series of species communities using genomic data (Professor of Evolutionary Biology Timothy G. Barraclough) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Zoology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Samples taken weekly from a network of suction traps across England are available for study from an archive that dates back to 1973, providing a remarkably systematic sample of migrating UK insects at a height of 12.2 m. (collaborators: Dr James Bell (PI) and Chris Shortall, entomologist and curators the Insect Survey and use it to investigate spatial and temporal ecological dynamics of UK insects). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project will develop new tools and pilot data for evolutionary time-series of multi-species assemblages. Specifically, it will reconstruct genomic change over the last 50 years for 8 fungal and 8 insect species as exemplars, and devise computational and statistical tools to analyse the new type of data that will emerge. The goal is to develop methodology and pilot data that will later be used in large UKRI grant bids to compile a 50-year genomic evolutionary time series for whole biota of fungi and insects associated with crops in the UK (i.e. many 100s of species). The project will connect evolutionary and computational expertise at Oxford with two valuable resources: emerging genome data and technology linked to the Darwin Tree of Life project (of which Univ Oxford is a key partner); and unique 50-year collections of fungi (with partner CABI) and insects (with partner Rothamsted Research) from systematic samples of the UK biota. |
| Impact | Only just started |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Keele University R. padi - endosymbiont project |
| Organisation | Keele University |
| Department | School of Life Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | R. padi sent to Keele university weekly for endosymbiont testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tested the material at Keele |
| Impact | No outcome yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Leeds University - insect vertical-looking radar project |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Over 200 suction trap samples from a secondary suction-trap collected in 2024 (started march) |
| Collaborator Contribution | vertical-looking radar installed next to Suction-trap and data collected in 2024 (started march) |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Lincoln University - Deep Learning for Insect Identification |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided image datasets of scanned plates of suction-trap aphid samples for use in the training and validation of deep-learning models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Developed and assessed deep-learning models for aphid identification. |
| Impact | Outputs include image datasets and deep-learning models. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UK Agri-Tech Centre (formally CHAP) |
| Organisation | Crop Health and Protection |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration aims to explore if multispectral imaging can be used to determine if individual aphids are carrying crop viruses. We provided aphid samples, identification expertise, and worked with CHAP on the image capture and analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CHAP provided access to a multispectral imaging platform, scanned aphids, and provided image-analysis expertise. |
| Impact | We progressed a methodology for using multispectral imaging for analysis of aphid samples. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | AHDB aphid data API functionality request |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | answered question on insect survey website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Advancing pre-season and within-season rolling forecasts for the virus yellows aphid vector Myzus persicae |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Talk to the European Sugar Beet IIRB SEMINAR 2023 under the title "The use of weather data in crop management on the 5th December 2023 Faculty Club, Begijnhof 14, B - 3000 Leuven, Belgium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.iirb.org/workshop/iirb-workshop-2019/venue-1 |
| Description | Aphid ID training to peaple from RHS Wisley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Aphid ID training to peaple from RHS Wisley |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Aphid identification request INRAE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a number of French aphid species determined to species |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Aphid identification request teagasc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | new species to aphid to Ireland identified |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Assisting in AI/ML identification of aphids from our suction trap samples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Assisting in AI/ML identification of aphids from our suction trap samples |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BYDV aphids in suction traps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of BYDV aphids in suction traps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Carabid talk at Groundswell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carabid talk at Groundswell |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Carrying out an entomological survey of the Kent Downs Nature Network Recovery Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carrying out an entomoligcal survey of the Kent Downs Nature Network Recovery Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | DEFRA/US embassy visit to the suction traps, talk given at the suction-traps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | delivered a talk on the Rothamsted suction and moth trap networks to DERFA/US embassy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Email dialogue requesting info on Woolly apple aphid E. lanigerum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Email dialogue requesting info on Woolly apple aphid E. lanigerum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Email discussing Brachycaudus helichrysi migrations & link to Taylor et al. 1982 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Email discussing Brachycaudus helichrysi migrations & link to Taylor et al. 1982 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/eradoc/article/ResReport1980p2-41-104 |
| Description | EntoLive The Rothamsted Insect Survey NBRI: From Microscopes to Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The story of the Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) starts back in 1964 at a time when the Beetles released Can't Buy Me Love' and that finishes sometime in the future when entomology might look quite different. The RIS monitors many groups of insects using its 12.2 m suction-trap and light-trap data networks. James discusses insect declines and the work of the RIS. James is joined by Dr Yoann Bourhis who talks about the DRUID (Drivers and Repercussions of UK Insect Declines) NERC-funded project and demonstrates a citizen science app that uses machine learning to predict where species might be, extending our knowledge about current species distributions. Dr James R. Bell is a Principal Scientist and Head of the RIS, a BBSRC National Bioscience Research Infrastructure. James is a quantitative ecologist with expertise in entomology having published widely on beetles, spiders, aphids, moths and many other things besides. James is senior author on Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide which offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to experimental design, field monitoring skills for plants and animals, data analysis, interpretation and reporting. The book is now in its second edition. Dr Yoann Bourhis is an ecosystems modeller, with expertise in machine learning. Yoann's main activity is as a post-doc on the DRUID project, funded by NERC. DRUID will take an unprecedented amount of citizen science data to underpin evidence-based policies to help nature. A key paper relating to Yoann's presentation was published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution earlier this year and demonstrates how it is possible to use machine learning to understand the distribution of insects using their life history traits (e.g. wing length, host plants etc) and environmental drivers (temperature, rainfall etc) to predict new distributions of insects. It is hoped that this new knowledge will guide recorders to sites where the species is predicted but no survey has yet confirmed the presence of that species. Yoann has developed an app and we invite you to contribute your experience and expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://biologicalrecording.co.uk/2023/09/21/rothamsted-insect-survey/ |
| Description | Gave a lab tour to representatives of the royal entomological society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | lab tour was given to RES to explain what we do in the survey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Group from BBSRC visit to RIS suction-trap |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Group from BBSRC visit to RIS suction-trap |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | High-tech slow-motion cameras for insect flight |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Application of slow-motion photography first enabled Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneering 19th-century photographer, to solve the mystery of a galloping horse. Today, Rothamsted's scientific challenges are no less profound and arguably harder to capture because biological and physical processes are much smaller in scale. The Phantom T4040 will enable research across plant pathology, soil erosion and insect behaviour. The extremely high specification will allow scientists to understand the spread of fungal pathogens by slowing down the explosion of fungal spores into the atmosphere. The rate and spread of ejected spores would provide insight into later deposition, electrostatic attraction, and spore release. Researchers are planning experiments to reveal strategic insights into aphid flight behaviour, a key deliverable for the Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS NBRI). The Phantom T4040 will allow us to link morphological characteristics, like size and structure, to acoustic properties, providing a mechanistic understanding of how morphology and behaviour affect performance, catalysing landscape-level surveillance and providing new scientific knowledge. These scientific activities will elevate the science conducted in several of Rothamsted's long-running projects, platforms, and Institute Strategic Programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.discover.ukri.org/bbsrc-impact-showcase-2023/ |
| Description | Highfield Park Trust Minibeast Safari |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Highfield Park Trust Minibeast Safari |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Human Cooperation and Insect Management - A Keynote Speech to the Royal Entomological Society's Sustainable Agroeculture SIG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Human Cooperation and Insect Management James R. Bell, Suzanne Clark, Andrew Mead, Alice Milne |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royensoc.co.uk/membership-and-community/special-interest-groups/sustainable-agriculture/ |
| Description | Info for poster for Met Conference Poster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Info for poster for Met Conference Poster |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invitation to discuss sugar beet research with British Sugar at their Bury Factory along with Rothamsted staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions were centred around ongoing and new disease threats to sugar beet and how research can enable a better understanding of how to manage virus yellows, SBR and rubbery tap root diseases. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited Attendance at Insect Declines and Science event Chelsea Flower Show 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A RES garden to support insects and showcase how insect declines can be mitigated |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royensoc.co.uk/chelsea/ |
| Description | Natural History Museum visit for 4 RIS Team members 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 4 team members went to the the Natural History Museum researching Aphid Identification and taxonomic issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Natural History Museum visit for 5 RIS Team members 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 5 team members went to the Natural History Museum researching Aphid Identification and taxonomic issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oxford university PhD student week long visit to conduct research on the RIS sample archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | RIS sample archive made available to PhD student, bench space made available, Identification advice given. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Podcast Kent Wildlife Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short interview on the overall work of the survey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/talk-on-the-wild-side-podcast |
| Description | RIS suction-trap talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | RIS suction-trap talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RIS talk to Guardian journalists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | RIS talk to Guardian journalists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SASA assistance with sample sorting and aphid identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | dealt with Scottish aphid samples in order to complete data needed for predictions and forecasts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Sent 376 suction trap samples for vertical-looking RADAR research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sent 376 suction trap samples for vertical-looking RADAR research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Sent heather aphid specimens to canadian agricultre/agri-food department for genetic taxonomy work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sent heather aphid specimens to canadian agricultre/agri-food department for genetic taxonomy work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Show the UKRI social media team the high speed camera and RIS lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Show the UKRI social media team the high speed camera and RIS lab |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Stakeholder meeting to share project findings with the sugar beet industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 30th October 2023, BBRO (Mark Stevens; Alistair Wright) visited Rothamsted (James Bell, Dion Garrett, Andrew Mead) along with our project partners Cranfield (Toby Waine; John Beale) and Bristol (Taro Takahashi). We shared drone data, virus spread data and farmer behaviour data and analysis which changed the views of BBRO. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk on careers in science at local careers fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk on careers in science at local careers fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on insects to collage students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk on insects to college students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk to Reading staff/students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris S talked to staff/students from Reading Uninversity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talking about AI with University of Southern Queensland regarding possible collaborations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talking to about AI with University of Southern Queensland regarding possible collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave evidence to Insect decline and UK food security inquiry. 7 June 2023 - Insect decline and UK food security - Oral evidence Insect numbers are difficult to quantify however recent research suggests that in the UK flying insects have declined by 60% in the past 20 years. Insects provide pivotal roles for UK food security including pollination and pest or weed regulation. There are also concerns that pest species may be increasing with negative impacts on crop yields. The Committee aims to build understanding of the role of insects in the UK food system and the economic impact of their decline and the associated risk to UK food security. It seeks to examine the evidence base for insect abundance in the UK, current drivers of insect loss and the Government's interventions to halt or reverse declines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/event/18023/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ |
| Description | UK Govt Civil Service fast stream programme: insect declines and farming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | More than 50 civil servants met outside at the Rothamsted Insect Survey suction-trap to discuss insect declines and farming, particualrly sugar beet. Additional attendees were from DEFRA, DSIT, BEIS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Verrall attendance for 4 RIS Team members 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 4 team members attended this networking event and contacts made |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Verrall attendance for 5 RIS Team members 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 5 team members attended this networking event and contacts made |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Visit by Greg Clark MP, Katherine Fletcher MP, Stephen Metcalf MP of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rothamsted Visit by House Of Commons Science, Innovation & Technology Committee members: Chair of the Committee Greg Clark MP, Katherine Fletcher MP and Stephen Metcalfe MP Accompanied by Secretariat Claire Kanja & Ian CruseTuesday 26th October 9:30-12:30 Inquiry Into Insect Decline And UK Food Security. Speakers: James Bell (lead and overview), Alice Milne (DRUID - insect declines), Gaetan Seimandi-Corda (OSR and beneficial parasitoids), Lawrence Bramham (BYDV), Izayana Sandoval-Carvajal (BYDV), Dion Garrett (flying insect ecology), Kelly Jowett (carabid ecology), Ishbel Hayes (moth declines and light pollution), Elliott Cornelius (moth vision and light pollution), Hannah Romanowski (bats) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit from PHD collaborator on AI/ML identification of aphids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit from PHD collaborator on AI/ML identification of aphids |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit from Royal Ent Soc to see the RIS and traps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit from Royal Ent Soc to see the RIS and traps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit to the RIS - short overview of the RIS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the RIS - short overview of the RIS - CRIRO Australia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Work experience student |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Work experience student |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | aphid and sawfly larvae identification request by member of staff from elsewhere in Rothamsted |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | aphid and sawfly identified |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | aphid biology in cereals question from an agronomist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | question on the current ability to identify aphids that are produced form eggs answered |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | aphid biology in stored products question from agronomist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | details of M. euphorbiae biology in stored potatoes given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | aphid identification request from INRAE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | determined French M. mumecola specimens and determined that another species was likely undescribed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | aphid identification request from SASA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | determined some difficult aphid specimens form the Scottish suction traps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | aphid identification request from aphid on strawberry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | positively identified aphid specimen |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | aphid identification request from teagasc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | aphids species determined |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | helped answer a question from the James Hutton Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | answered questions on how to cite the aphid forecasts and gave links to articles on the technical aspects of the forecasts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | identification of Coleoptera (beetles) for a researcher in a different dept. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | determined ~50 dung beetles |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | identification of Diptera for an external collaborator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Positively identified sticky trap specimen of Delia coarctata (wheat bulb fly) from protected cultivation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | identification of an insect for member of the public |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | identified a moth from a photograph taken by a member of the public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | identified 2 species of aphid from buddleja and Beans for RHS Wisley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Identified 7 aphid specimens and informed RHS Wisley of the species |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | identified 2 specimens of the new aphid species to Europe for Teagasc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | aphids identified from photographs and identification advice given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | identified aphids from carrot crops for University of Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | identified 20 aphid specimens and sent material back to the requestor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | in person meeting with keele university researchers and students on the use of the RIS suction trap network in their project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | aphid sampling strategy and logistics agreed upon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | meeting with Keele university researchers and students on the use of the RIS suction trap network in their project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | used of suction-trap samples agreed upon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | meeting with a leading crop protection agronomist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | had a meeting to discuss the current state of agriculture for growers and agronomists as well as recent observations in aphid activity and past past published works on aphid agroecology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | question from Bristol university student on aphid field sampling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | answered question on experimental design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | question from Bristol university student on aphid sampling strategy from out suction-trap network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | informed decision on aphid sample strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | question from Leeds university on aphid modelling from aphid forecast data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | answered question on expected number of aphids per hectare on crop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | question from Sussex university student on use of epg equipment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | answered question on EPG operation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | question from Warwick university researcher on access to long term data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | question on access to pre 2022 data answered |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | question from an agronomist on the identification of an aphid species |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | informed decision on aphid identification |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | received information on M. persicae in OSR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | added information on OSR observations to aphid newsletter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request by a member of staff from elsewhere in Rothamsted for a map of suction-trap to be used in a presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | map given to researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request by agronomist to be added to the aphid bullein mailing list |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | agronomist added to bulletin mailing list |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request by an agronomist for details on sightings of spodoptera frugiperda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | information on recorded occurrence given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request by and agronomist for graphs of long-term trends of the aphid B. helichrysi. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | literature with graph found and sent to the agronomist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request by and agronomist on the current activity of an aphid species |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | answered questions on D. plantaginea activity in the suction traps in East Anglia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request by and agronomist to be added to aphid bulletin mailing list |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | agronomist added to bulletin mailing list |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request by and agronomist to be added to aphid bulletin mailing list |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | agronomist added to bulletin mailing list |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request by and agronomist to be added to aphid bulletin mailing list |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | agronomist added to bulletin mailing list |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request by teagasc for information on aphid biology and morphological / molecular identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | answered questions on the state of molecular identification of metopolophium spp. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request for actual vs predicted first flight data for M. persicae by a researcher in Rothamsted |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | data used at an IRAG-UK meeting to promote the RIS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request from ADAS to feature RIS information in crop action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | aphid predictions used to inform newsletter and growers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request from ADAS to feature RIS information in crop action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | OWBM data used to inform newsletter and growers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request from Bristol university student for assistance on an external project and for info about our samples and aphid identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | questions on aphid phenology, DNA yields and the species we record |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request from University of Warwick for suggestions on resources to train a student in aphid identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | advised on good resources to help students learn about aphid identification |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | request from agronomist for a paper on our methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a paper with the details of the Lowles test for R. padi morph differentiation shared |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request from an agronomist to alter website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | request to use common names on bulletin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request from colleague in a different department for information of arrivals of aphids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | details of whether M. persicae had been captured in the suction-traps given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request from colleague in a different department for information of arrivals of aphids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | details of whether M. persicae had been captured in the suction-traps given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | request on whether 5G is causing insect declines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | advised that it can take several years of future sampling to be able to find a statistically significant effect, that we are not currently working on this and pointed the person to our previously published work on insect declines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | responded to an enquiry from Chile about setting up a network of suction traps in their country |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | gave advice and experiences of running a suction-trap network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | talk given about insect diversity, trapping, value, and current declines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | talk given about insect diversity, trapping, value, and current declines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | trained a new starter to the RIS in aphid identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | staff member taught about aphid anatomy, taxonomy and some basic species identification. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | trained our six month university placement student in aphid identification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | student taught about aphid anatomy, taxonomy and some basic species identification |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | visit by Chilean researchers on how to set up a suction-trap network in their country |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | researchers from Chile taught about how to setup and run a suction trap network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | visit by a student looking to pursue a career as a biologist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | To show the student our activities and inform them on what working in this area entails |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | visit from Oxford university researcher and PhD student |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | lab / archive tour for researcher and PhD student and discussion of collaboration project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | website question by an agronomist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | explained that the website cannot support unsupported web browsers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |