Pests and Diseases

September 15, 2023 · Blogs | News

Sweet Chestnut Health Check: Help Fight a Double Threat

Sweet chestnut trees (Castanea sativa) are distinctive and popular, but they face a double threat.

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August 15, 2023 · Blogs | News

Managing and Limiting Acute Oak Decline (AOD)

Oak is an iconic tree. Its timber is one of our most valuable woodland products. Hundreds of jobs and businesses depend on it to some extent. Forestry Consultant Andrew Woods is an RFS Past President and has represented the RFS on the Action Oak initiative.

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August 31, 2023 · Blogs

How Dothistroma has Blighted our Forests

Katherine Tubby has been part of Forest Research’s Tree Health team at Alice Holt since 2000. She researches the impacts and management of pests and diseases including Dothistroma needle blight (DNB). Operationally, she says, DNB is currently best tackled using silvicultural means.

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May 11, 2023 · Blogs | News

Fighting Phytophthora – the plant destroyers

In recent times, foresters will have become all too familiar with the problems that Phytophthoras can bring. The name Phytophthora derives from Greek and literally means “plant destroyer.”

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April 25, 2023 · Blogs | News

Five surprising things about Ips typographus

Anna Platoni is the Advisory Entomologist at Forest Research. She leads the team answering entomology questions submitted via TreeAlert.

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March 20, 2023 · Blogs | News

Facing up to Oak Processionary Moth

Victoria Jackson is part of the Consultancy team at Maydencroft. Her work involves oak processionary moth (OPM) surveys and writing OPM Strategies and Management Plans. Here she discusses answers to questions those with woodlands in the affected areas may need to know.

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August 1, 2019 · Blogs

Don’t give pests and diseases an easy ride

Becki Gawthorpe, Biosecurity Outreach Officer with the Forestry Commission, discusses the pests and diseases Future Foresters may face.

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November 1, 2018 · Blogs

Recognising Deer Damage

Deer management expert Patrick Faulkner talks about the increase in deer he has witnessed, when deer pose the greatest threats to motorists and how to recognize the level of deer damage in a woodland.

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