Pollen beetle migration has begun!
Today was the first day the #ipmdecisions platform shows likely pollen beetle migration in the UK, and here they are enjoying daffodil pollen in Cambridgeshire
platform.ipmdecisions.net
Interested in how we can work with #farmers, #foresters, and their advisors to co-develop change toward sustainable practices?
🗓 Save the date! Join our 2nd Green Nudge Conference
Brussels 21 May 2026!
Pre-register here
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@greennudgeproject.bsky.social
@horizoneu.bsky.social
Are you interested in how we can work with farmers, foresters, and their advisors to co-develop meaningful interventions towards sustainable practices?
🗓 Save the date to join us for our 2nd Green Nudge Conference in Brussels 21 May 2026!
Pre-register here
greennudge.eu
You can find all IPMnet Bulletins on FarmPEP here: farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Webinar Broadbalk Long-term Rotational Experiment at 183 Years. 2 photos of 2 white men smiling at the camera with a neutral background. Text underneath: Jon Storkey and Andy Gregory, Rothamsted Research.
Will you attend our lunch time #webinar this month?
Andy Gregory & Jon Storkey from @rothamsted.bsky.social will be talking about the Broadbalk experiment #LTE that began in 1843.
Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
@rothamsted-lte.bsky.social #Agriculture #Fertilisers #Sustainability 🌏
#CallForAbstracts Deadline next week!
Submit your abstracts soon for a chance to share your research and present at the #BehaviourSIG in February 🔽
buff.ly/KrjZwc8
📅 Deadline for abstract submissions: 16 December
@rothamsted.bsky.social @ipmmark.bsky.social @basf.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
IPM Decisions Platform: a European wide digital platform for pest forecasting
Get in touch if you have pest forecast models you'd like to see in the hands of farmers and advisors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFM...
AHDB launch new collaborative research to level-up Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (CSFB) control
- evaluate novel approaches
- improve guidance
- fine-tune understanding of CSFB development
- generate data on natural enemies
- prime innovation in CSFB management.
ahdb.org.uk/news/new-col...
This is a cool paper! Global selection on insect antipredator coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
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
💚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...
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
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
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
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!
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...
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
💚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...
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
🚨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.
📢 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...
📢 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...
Vivid Small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia) larvae spotted in #Cambridgeshire today.
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...
Want to know more about IPM Science and Practice?
Check out this video series!
From theory to practical application 😀
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
New adult 7spot ladybird emerging soon
14 spot ladybirds were busy over the bank holiday weekend.
Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...
Garden Orb Weaver (Araneus diadematus) spiderlings
💚 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...
📢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
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
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