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Observatree attends the world’s first International Plant Health Conference

Colleagues from across the Observatree partnership, attended the world’s first International Plant Health Conference. Peter Crow, Observatree’s Project Manager, reflects on some of the conference’s key messages around the current and future global plant health challenges.

Peter Crow  •  17 Oct 2022

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Wales Sentinel Network & Plant Health Surveillance - December 2022

How a network of parks and gardens have been set up across Wales surveying for tree and plant pests and diseases. This will include the interaction and development of a programme which has been designed to monitor the presence/absence and abundance of native and invasive pests and pathogens posing a threat to the health of trees across Wales.

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Aerial Surveillance to Detect Pests and Diseases - February 2023

This talk will explain how the Forestry Commission use aerial surveillance (helicopters and drones) to survey trees for signs of poor health, disease and/or pest infestation. We will use Ips typographus as a case study to show how this work feeds into pest outbreak response work. We will also talk about the signs and symptoms looked for during drone surveillance for a range of emerging pests and diseases.

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Host of the month - Plane

Matt Parratt, Observatree Scientific Coordinator, highlights plane, plane lace bug and plane wilt.

Matt Parratt  •  29 Aug 2023

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Host of the Month Plane - September 2023

Join us to learn about Plane ID and associated pests and diseases.

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