Citizen Science on Sweet Chestnut distribution, health and #invasive chestnut pest and pathogens in the UK. By @The_RHS & @CovUniResearch for @ProjectHOMED
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Today in #PlantHealthWeek let's #KeepItClean to the beat! 🔊🧹🥾🚿
Soil and leaves can carry plant pathogens so always #CleanYourBoots when you’ve been out in nature. In this small way, everyone can help protect #TreeHealth
@DefraGovUK @plantchief @The_RHS @CoventryCAWR
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Please stay alert for #ChestnutBlight in UK sweet chestnut: Fissured cankers and orange fruiting bodies. Report with treealert.forestry.gov.uk/
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Great update from @FeraScience entomologist Chris Malumphy on oriental chestnut gall wasp biocontrol for @ForestryComm #treehealth team workshop with @BeckiGawthorpe @Anapesi3 @MickBiddleFR @lisaiward @GerardClover and colleagues also talking #observatree and #CitizenScience
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Do you want to learn new scientific skills in your free time? Consider #volunteering @RHSWisley Hilltop lab to support our research on widespread garden diseases, honey fungus & powdery mildew.
DL to apply is Sun 30th October
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At #PlantHealthConference today sharing the work of @CheckChestnut from @ProjectHOMED @CoventryCAWR @The_RHS about engaging the public to record sweet chestnut #trees and the introduced Oriental chestnut gall wasp in UK using apps/online tools by @Treezilla_org & @Forest_Research
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Latest #observatree tree pest and disease survey highlights for autumn @PlantNetwork @YorTHC @LTOA33 @TreeCouncil @EPPOnews @HTAnews @ArbAssociation @johntree1981 @royal_forestry @smallwoodsuk @TheICF @IPSN_BGCI @plantchief @PlantChiefScot @Anapesi3 @SJRAfloat @bec_goose
Sweet chestnut leaves and spiky cases shining after recent rains!
Last few weeks to register to add 'check a sweet chestnut' records together, helping understand spread of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp in the country.
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Don't forget to register that sweet chestnut with @CheckChestnut 😊
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Excited to be at the @IUFROdivision7 conference in sunny Lisbon🇵🇹
👏We look forward to a week filled with #foresthealth insights
🗣️Visit our stand at the #ForestHealth2022 conference & find how HOMED is protecting #forests
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Let's go, Lisbon! This week I'm excited to attend the forest health, pathology & Entomol conference of IUFRO, representing @ProjectHOMED, @The_RHS & @CheckChestnut
Last month to register with Check a Sweet Chestnut citizen science project! Enjoy a walk with a tape measure and recording the health of these lovely trees as a citizen scientist 👣🧐 🌳🔍📏🫧📱looking out for Oriental Chestnut gall wasp symptoms 🍃
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Citizen scientists are recording UK Sweet Chestnuts and Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp symptoms...results show sightings found in new areas of UK, and volunteers checking in UK's 4 nations @Jassydrak presented @citizensciencetreehealthnetwork @AttinghamParkNT
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Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp symptoms on the midribs of sweet chestnut leaves. If you have seen these symptoms please let TreeAlert know @APHAgovuk. To take part in Check a Sweet Chestnut 👣 🧐🌿🌳📱📏🫧 citizen science project register here rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-… @Treezilla_org
Sweet chestnut trees clean our air and the flowers smell lovely! Walking or running in nature? Check a sweet chestnut together, for its health this summer: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…
Planks of waney edge sawn timber of English Sweet Chestnut drying. Photo from Vastern Timber. If you're working with sweet chestnut and would like to be involved with Check a Sweet Chestnut, tree health project see rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…
Seen sweet chestnut flowers on the ground or pavement? Do they smell of frying mushrooms? Look up and Check a Sweet Chestnut for it's health, and for signs of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp on the leaves...rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…
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Good morning from @RHSWisley a day to appreciate the shade of the many amazing trees.
Sweet chestnuts are flowering now, a great way to I-D them, and know where to look for sweet chestnuts to forage for later in the year! Check -a-sweet-chestnut and record its health, in our tree health citizen science study: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…
Sweet chestnut catkins are a great favourite of bees. Measuring between 10-20cm, they appear in late June and July, and hold the flowers of both sexes: male flowers above and female flowers in the lower portion. Keep an eye out for tree health:
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'Check a sweet chestnut' as a citizen scientist, with a tape measure and record its health, looking for signs of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp making leaf distortions. Register here:
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Looking for a plant/fungi #PhD? Come work on host resistance & response to Armillaria rot rot with me @RHSWisley, @SofiaGripenberg & Glyn Barrett @UniofReading & Luke Hailey @BartlettTreeExp
#ArmiArmy #PlantHealth #Trees #Fungi
DL 3rd July! 🌳🍯🍄💚
PhD opportunity in plant pathology! Joint project between the @RoyalHortSoc, @UniofReading, and @BartlettTreeUK, supervision by @Jassydrak, Glyn Barrett, Luke Hailey and myself. Deadline for applications 3rd July. More information: jobs.ac.uk/job/CQK823/phd-st…