Cross-Divisional Symposium

ROLE OF DISEASE IN THE REGULATION OF NON-PEST INSECT POPULATIONS 

Organizers: Helen Roy, Judith Pell and John Burand

 

Nicolai vitt Meyling and Jorgen Eilenberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Specialist and generalist entomopathogenic fungi infecting non-pest insects: Implications for ecosystem services and relevance of behavioural ecology

Rosemary Hails, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK

Covert viruses in wild populations

Leellen Solter, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois, USA

Microsporidian disease in beneficial insects

Helen Hesketh, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK

Methods for studying pathogens in natural populations; recent developments and future thoughts

Alison Dunn, Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

Parasites mediate biological invasions