The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
Science
Dr Chris Shortall
Entomologist
Protecting Crops and the Environment
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Email
chris.shortall@rothamsted.ac.ukLinkedIn
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Tel
+44 (0) 1582 938 466
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Biography
Chris is an entomologist with considerable expertise and an interest in the long-term population dynamics of insects. He uses the data and samples held by the Rothamsted Insect Survey to characterise the effects of landscape and climate change on the insect fauna of the UK, and to identify drivers of insect phenology and abundance to forecast pest outbreaks. Chris co-ordinates the light-trap network and leads projects associated with moths and the non-aphid fraction of the suction-trap samples. He completed his PhD on the spatio-temporal dynamics of pollen beetles with the University of Reading in 2021.
PhD Projects
- Modelling the temporal and spatial ecology of the oilseed rape pest Meligethes aeneus; implications for integrated pest management strategies
Awards
- 1997 - Bachelor (Hons) of Zoology, University College of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
Measures of Esteem
- Fellow - Royal Entomological Society