Armyworms are important caterpillar crop pests in Africa and, in the early 1990s, Ken was a young postdoc based in Kenya studying the migration of adult armyworm moths*. As part of this, he would visit lots of high-density armyworm ‘outbreaks’. What struck him most during these visits was that at some outbreaks all of the […]
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Ruth Carter’s PhD project on Fall Armyworm is animated by the wonderful Mair Perkins: Science Research Explainer: Fall Army Worm Crop Protection | Mair Perkins Ltd. https://player.vimeo.com/external/405343259.hd.mp4?s=ae73d2df83400021615c9af2f7e8ca48ad1675b1&profile_id=175
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Exosect issue press release about our Agri-Tech project results and upcomomg webinar. Congrats to all the iPEGers who worked on the project over the last 18 months or so: Karen Harper, Dave Osbaldeston, Annabel Rice, Ken Wilson. Photo above: Spodoptera littoralis larva. Deep clean: Annabel and Philip give the lab a deep, deep clean! Annabel […]
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Ken writes a new blog post for Global Food Security on the challenges of developing new biopesticides, and attends a recption hosted by Lord Cameron of Dillington at the House of Lords on behalf of The Global Food Security Programme (Jan 11th).
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Bobby is interviewed about his placement at the Universidade Federal de Vicosa. View article
Read MoreKen and Rob co-author a paper emerging from a new collaboration with Prof Wu and colelagues at IPCC CAAS in Beijing and described the protective effects of a newly-described densovirus on its host, the Old World Cotton Bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. The paper received some press interest – Read More (English) / Read More (Chinese).
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