santon downham seminar

[likeitorlumpit]

Spent the day in east anglia yesterday listening to quite passionate researchers from the forestry comission explaining the various hopelessness of their situation- with some positives.

Interested to note that control of OPM largely ineffective as the area now infected is quite large centred around west london. There was talk of another area where it has been found

My question to all on here is Have you found Oak Processionary Moth and if so where?

[janey]

It's now been found in these London Boroughs - Ealing, Brent, Hounslow, Hammersmith, Kensington, Richmond, Wandsworth and Merton.

 

It's also in Pangbourne, Berks.

 

If anyone has found it outside of these areas, I would be very interested and would appreciate a PM about it with more details.

[likeitorlumpit]

Janey- a couple of years ago we had a number of cases of hairy caterpillars causing rashes on people- not seen by me on Oak but on cotoneaster and hawthorne- do you know what this beestie was?

[janey]

Sounds very much like Brown Tailed Moth. They are pretty much confined to Rosacea and seem to love Cotoneaster. They can cause skin irritation and rashes which are very mild in comparison to OPM.

[RobArb]

I thought OPM has also been found in sheffield?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[janey]

I thought OPM has also been found in sheffield?

 

 

Isolated outbreak up there that has now been erradicated. Apparently. Even the OPM are more discerning for a life up Norf

[David Humphries]

If anyone has found it outside of these areas, I would be very interested and would appreciate a PM about it with more details.

 

We caught a male in a pheromone trap in 2010 (up on the Heath in what I'd imagine is Camden), FR know about this one already.

 

 

No females as yet.

 

 

 

 

I was at Santon yesterday as well Likeitorlumpit.

 

I thought it was a very well presented & informative seminar.

 

Nipped out to the woods in the afternoon , so missed the summing up. Was it worth sticking around for till the end?

 

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[likeitorlumpit]

I thought I saw you there but I didn't get a chance to say hello-

Summing up was a demo on biosecurity kit which was funny

Final chapter was the FC main man being hauled over the coals by the audience for not having enough passion for the job- not gunning for more grant money though basically having a fantastic team around him.(so maybe he is doing his job right- as I assume he puts the team together)

There is an extra £7million available over 3 years but I now understand that this is to be competed for by the FC and universities so the future looks bleak for some FC research.

I too fancied a walk around those woods- there were some big trees there!! and very relaxing part of the world other than the single carriage way route home congestion