Involved with #invasivespecies for 29 years and still amazed by their abilities and our apparent inability to do enough to manage them #Japaneseknotweed
Egham, UK
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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.
Dick Shaw retweeted
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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.
In pictures: Tackling Croton scale in Grenada – PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/07/2…
Understanding #InvasiveSpecies in agriculture - PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/07/1…
Fighting fungus with fungus: a solution to coffee leaf rust? gcrmag.com/fighting-fungus-w…
Dick Shaw retweeted
This seems to be the first record of the invasive land flatworm Obama nungara in Northern Ireland
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: www2.habitas.org.uk/records/…
or
iRecord: irecord.org.uk/
#INNSWeek
Preventing the coconut hispine beetle invasion in Bangladesh blog.plantwise.org/2025/06/0…
Great project and quotes from CABI's own Bob Ramnanan - Imported ladybirds save Grenada’s ice cream fruit scidev.net/global/supported-…
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…
Warning over low funding to tackle invasive species damaging British wildlife aol.co.uk/news/warning-over-…
DNA barcodes and #citizenscience images map spread of biocontrol agent for control of major invasive shrub - CABI.org cabi.org/news-article/dna-ba…
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…
amazing #fungi New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders the-microbiologist.com/news/…
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…
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…
Invasive apple snail in Kenyan irrigation scheme could potentially spread to more areas – #InvasiveSpecies PlantwisePlus Blog blog.plantwise.org/2025/01/2…
A persistent problem with #InvasiveSpecies - Warnings of stowaway snakes and tree-frogs hiding in pot plants bbc.com/news/articles/ckgy1l…