It takes a lot of different #skills to make it in #entomology 🪲 Team members in the Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ team are channeling their more creative side to ensure insect colonies and bioassay material is ready to go 👌🐞👍

The Insect Ecology NZ Plant & Food Research have been busy over the summer setting up trials, testing treatments and collecting #Data both in the #Laboratory and in the field #WomenInScience

Onions, onions and more🧅A modified cement mixer in action for Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ to assess skin retention and yield in #onions subjected to different #thrips pressure. The work is to improve #onion #thrips management in the Ministry for Primary Industries 'Onion Pathways' project with New Zealand Onions

Congratulations to Jessica and Vaughn (and team) for their successfully funded Plant & Food Research #Bioprotection #Blueskies projects on #Nitrogen Effect on the Infection Process of a vectored #BacterialPathogen & Developing a #HarlequinLadybird Lure & Kill

The last few weeks our Plant & Food Research @bugologists Jessica and Joanne presented at the Pukekohe and Canterbury Process #Vegetables #roadshow on some of their R&D projects and New Advances in #IPM. #vegetablesnz #horticulture Horticulture New Zealand

We had a great time at the 2022 NZPPS Symposium and #Conference in Canterbury last week with six posters presented by our very own Insect Ecology NZ! Happy 75th birthday NZPPS #NZPPS Plant & Food Research

Great start to the new Wētā project in the #Awatere area #Marlborough with over 20 local #wine growers turning up at Seddon hall for grower engagement with Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ. The project is in collaboration with Massey University and funded through Bragato Research Institute.

The hunt is on🧐!!! First field visit by Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ and Massey University scientists to the #Awatere area #Marlboroughtook took place this week searching for the Wētā Bragato Research Institute 🍇

Our brilliant Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ @JVereijssen secured a Margaret Hogg-Stec Scholarship providing her opportunities to undertake #taxonomy and #diagnostics training on #spittlebug species with experts at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research and Ministry for Primary Industries in Auckland. #WomeninScience

It was a busy week last week hosting Plant & Food Research workshops for #strawberry growers and scouts across NZ to offer hands on experience identifying pests and beneficials. Australian #IPM expert Dr Paul Horne held discussions on improving #pestmanagement via IPM implementation.

Hunting by headlamps🧐Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ on their second visit to the #Awatere #Marlborough #NZ area searching for ground wētā emerging from their burrows after dark. We aim to unlock sustainable management of Wētā Bragato Research Institute 🍇 #entomology #EntomologyRocks

#Adorable video of newly hatched ground wētā snacking on some fish food at Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ lab🥰#Awatere #Marlborough #NZ Bragato Research Institute🍇 #entomology #EntomologyRocks

It’s all in the legs🦵well maybe not, but that is all Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ need to gain valuable information about the #molecular makeup of spittlebugs collected as part of the former B3 Director project on potential #Xylella vectors in #NZ #entomology 🪲

Looking Red hot 💅! Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ back in #Awatere #Marlborough to undertake surveys on ground wētā to unlock sustainable management. PhD student from Massey University tagged adults at night to look at movement within the vineyards over time Bragato Research Institute🍇#entomology

Always upskilling our teams' capabilities👌Insect Ecology NZ Lisa learning from other Plant & Food Research scientists the ins and outs of using Climex. The predictions of climate change on species distribution the program provides will be used in our former B3 Director Diapause and Pathways project

Dry, wet or something in-between🧐? Plant & Food Research Insect Ecology NZ testing soil moisture liking of the #Awatere #Marlborough ground wētā to understand its preference and population build-up in certain locations and potential link with irrigation systems Bragato Research Institute🍇#entomology

#Thrips (Thysanoptera) are major #insect pests in primary production systems. Insect Ecology NZ & Plant & Food Research engineers are developing an innovative system to deliver targeted selective pesticides while only using a fraction of active ingredients compared to spraying 🌻

!!We have moved!! The Insect Ecology NZ Insect Ecology NZ page is up and running on LinkedIn. We will be saying goodbye to Twitter in the next few weeks so we invite everyone to follow us here at: linkedin.com/showcase/insec…