Involved with #invasivespecies for 29 years and still amazed by their abilities and our apparent inability to do enough to manage them #Japaneseknotweed
Joined September 2009
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29 Oct 2025
Haven’t been on twitter for a while but was interested to see this comparison made. In Europe I doubt the full meaning of #InvasiveSpecies would be understood which makes it hard to explain #biocontrol when the time comes.
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28 Oct 2025
𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗯𝘂𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!🚨
This pest attacks 50 plant families, causing major crop losses. IPM strategies use chemical, biological, and cultural methods to manage it.
Here are 3 key facts you need to know! 👇
ALT 3 facts about Papaya mealybug. 1. The papaya mealybug is small, yellow, and covered in white wax. It gathers on the underside of papaya leaves and fruits.. 2. It sucks sap, causing leaf damage, fruit drop, and promoting sooty mould. 3. Active in warm, dry weather, it spreads through crawling, air, water, and ants that protect and move it.
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30 Jul 2025
In pictures: Tackling Croton scale in Grenada – PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/07/2…
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15 Jul 2025
Understanding #InvasiveSpecies in agriculture - PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/07/1…
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9 Jul 2025
Fighting fungus with fungus: a solution to coffee leaf rust? gcrmag.com/fighting-fungus-w…
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2 Jun 2025
This seems to be the first record of the invasive land flatworm Obama nungara in Northern Ireland
16 May 2025
LOOK OUT for Obama nungara...
An invasive flatworm species that was recorded in NI for the first time this year!
Send in your records via:
CEDaR: habitas.org.uk/records/ISI
or
iRecord: irecord.org.uk/
#INNSWeek
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2 Jun 2025
Preventing the coconut hispine beetle invasion in Bangladesh blog.plantwise.org/2025/06/0…
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21 May 2025
Great project and quotes from CABI's own Bob Ramnanan - Imported ladybirds save Grenada’s ice cream fruit scidev.net/global/supported-…
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21 May 2025
Wonderful summary of a great event we had the pleasure of organising at the CGIAR Science week in Nairoby - Turning Partnerships into Impact: Lessons from… | NFP Connects nfpconnects.com/insights/tur…
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16 May 2025
Meet the psyllid, a small but mighty insect taking on aggressive invasive knotweed species.
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13 May 2025
Warning over low funding to tackle invasive species damaging British wildlife aol.co.uk/news/warning-over-…
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24 Feb 2025
Enjoying an Inspirational kick-off meeting with colleagues in Malaysia.
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10 Feb 2025
DNA barcodes and #citizenscience images map spread of biocontrol agent for control of major invasive shrub - CABI.org cabi.org/news-article/dna-ba…
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7 Feb 2025
gotta love a weevil - CABI supports weevil release to help control floating pennywort in the Cam Washes – Invasive Species Blog blog.invasive-species.org/20…
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31 Jan 2025
amazing #fungi New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders the-microbiologist.com/news/…
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29 Jan 2025
New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders on the island of Ireland - CABI.org cabi.org/news-article/new-fu…
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24 Jan 2025
Great example of community engagement re #InvasiveSpecies bbiocontrol - Tackling a cactus menace with sustainable biological control in Kenya’s Naibunga Community Conservancy – Invasive Species Blog blog.invasive-species.org/20…
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22 Jan 2025
Invasive apple snail in Kenyan irrigation scheme could potentially spread to more areas – #InvasiveSpecies PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/01/2…
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17 Jan 2025
A persistent problem with #InvasiveSpecies - Warnings of stowaway snakes and tree-frogs hiding in pot plants bbc.com/news/articles/ckgy1l…
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