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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 6d

This is a cool paper! Global selection on insect antipredator coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

www.science.org

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you work in #forestry, please use these links:

Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Questionnaire for Foresters

ec.europa.eu

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?

🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Survey launch poster, saying that at ForestAgriGreenNudge we aim to guide decision-makers towards more sustainable practices in farming and forestry through the use of Green Nudges.
We've launched surveys to help us understand what drives good decisions

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · 9d

OPER8 have launched their E-Learning alternative weed management module

www.oper-8.eu/knowledge-ba...

This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative weed management.

@adasgroup.bsky.social

E-learning

E-learning module Learn more about alternative weed control solutions in our E-learning module This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative we...

www.oper-8.eu

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · 9d

IPMNET Bulletin September 2025

farmpep.net/sites/defaul...

- TSUM model on IPM Decisions forecasts similar risk of secondary spread of BYDV to this time last year

All news in the bulletin, now available on #FarmPEP

@adasgroup.bsky.social

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · 16d

Great to see another piece of #IPMDecisions work out now as a Preprint: "Developing a generic DSS model metadata catalogue and APIs for crop protection."

www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...

@adasgroup.bsky.social #modelling #DSS #IPM #API @horizoneu.bsky.social

Developing a generic DSS model metadata catalogue and APIs for crop protection. | agriRxiv

www.cabidigitallibrary.org

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 24

This weeks & all IPMNET Bulletin on FarmPEP farmpep.net/resource/ipm...

Late blight, cutworm, carrot fly, pea moth, and cercospora leaf spot all worth checking (list is not complete!)

📣Are you doing something different? Share you Novel Approaches for reducing pesticide use and risk!

farmpep.net

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you work in #forestry, please use these links:

Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Questionnaire for Foresters

ec.europa.eu

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?

🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

Duncan Coston @adasgroup.bsky.social talks us through trials of Barley yellow dwarf virus #BYDV in winter wheat, looking at novel approaches to manage this important pest on the AHDB Strategic Farm East 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM

Strategic Cereal Farm East BYDV trial update harvest 2024 with Duncan Coston | AHDB

YouTube video by AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

www.youtube.com

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨today is last day to register for this Workshop on Wednesday!

join to discuss novel approaches for sustainable pest management, focused on the role of peer to peer learning among farmers and advisors.

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources

Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources

Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...

us02web.zoom.us

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources

Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...

us02web.zoom.us

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jun 23

Vivid Small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia) larvae spotted in #Cambridgeshire today.

www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Jun 20

Want to know more about IPM Science and Practice?
Check out this video series!

From theory to practical application 😀

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Integrated Pest Management: Science & Practice - a video series about disease control in cereal crops - YouTube

This video series offers a detailed overview of disease control methods in cereal crops using Integrated Pest Management techniques. This series is funded by...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 31

New adult 7spot ladybird emerging soon

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 27

14 spot ladybirds were busy over the bank holiday weekend.

Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:

www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 24

Garden Orb Weaver (Araneus diadematus) spiderlings

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 21

💚 Green Nudge Conference today!

⌚ Start Time: 9:00 AM CET

🚨live web stream link: live.eesc.europa.eu/play/?id=658

🧾 agenda here: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...

EESC Live Streaming HLS - beta

live.eesc.europa.eu

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 8

📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying begun
🟠#Carrotfly and #saddlegallmidge emergence at 50% Keep checking current risk at your locations:
platform.ipmdecisions.net

IPMDecisionsPlatform

platform.ipmdecisions.net

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 4

Yellow haired sun fly _Myathropa florea_ in the Cambridgeshire yesterday,
Beautiful hoverfly 😀. Quite a large species, so easy to see that the eyes don't touch at top of head = female
#insects #hoverfly

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 2

IPMWorks: Using Decision Support Systems to improve canopy disease management in arable crops in Sweden
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
The DSS was shown to support good decision making on farm in Sweden

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · May 2

📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions in the UK:
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Saddlegallmidge emergence
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying
🟠#Carrotfly emergence
Keep checking current risk at your locations: platform.ipmdecisions.net

IPMDecisionsPlatform

platform.ipmdecisions.net

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Apr 24

In this video we can see two examples of the no-tillage technique in two plots with different crops (pea and sunflower) to eliminate or reduce a weed, such as vallico.
#IPM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVy...

#IPM Tutorials - No-Tillage for Weed Control in Pea & Sunflower Fields

YouTube video by IPMWORKS

www.youtube.com

Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · Apr 24

In this IPMWORKS video we look at different control measures for Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) which can be used in both winter and spring barley.
#IPM #BYDV

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ECx...

Video Tutorial Demo BYDV IPMWORKS

YouTube video by IPMWORKS

www.youtube.com

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