Charles Lane
cobwebdr.bsky.social
Charles Lane
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
Plant health and biosecurity consultant
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June 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thanks to @green-goddess.bsky.social at Yorkshire Arboretum for hosting Fera Science #planthealth #professionals @royalsocbio.bsky.social gaining experience of tree health and #biosecurity @plantchief.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This week marks #PlantHealthWeek, a scheme committed to protecting the health of plants 🌿🩺

Today we are exploring the important and varied roles that fungi play in plant health. Let's take a look 🍄🔍👇
May 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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The #PlantHealthWeek activities continued at Fera Science with a Plant Health Walk around campus, with Bacteriology, Mycology, Entomology, Virology and Nematology specialists showing us what interesting plant diseases and pests we can find just outside 🌱🍂
May 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#PlantHealthWeek: Take action and get involved in plant health surveillance! 🔍🌿

Join the IPSN in monitoring priority pests & diseases using our available resources.

📩 Register your interest: forms.office.com/e/VbF0Fg4rYy

Help protect plant collections around the world!🌍🕵️‍♀️
May 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This #PlantHealthDay, why not watch Sarah Brunel's talk about the importance of plant health in #OneHealth?

During the talk, Sarah from the IPPC discussed global standards and strategies to mitigate the spread of plant pests and diseases.

Watch it here: youtu.be/PfQK8xsoync?...

#PlantHealthWeek
Plant Health Series | The importance of plant health in One Health | Sarah Brunel, IPPC
YouTube video by Royal Society of Biology
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May 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#PlantHealthDay: Share your resources & stories!📢

Showcase your garden resources to be featured in our special Plant Health Week newsletter!📚🍃

To Participate👇
Submit via form:🔗 forms.office.com/e/nuh0qQLQx9 OR 📲 Post on social media, tag @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social, and use #PlantHealthWeek
May 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🌳 Healthy Trees Need Healthy People 🌳
We are delighted to announce that organisations from across the forestry sector have come together to tackle the growing issues surrounding mental health in forestry.
📣 Read more: buff.ly/G1O6S8x
#PlantHealthWeek #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #ThisIsMyCommunity
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May 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#PlantHealthWeek: Stay ahead of emerging plant health threats!🛡️🐛🦠

Support your garden’s biosecurity by sharing IPSN's Organism Alert Posters🚨
Designed to raise awareness and support the rapid detection of new and emerging risks

⬇️Download and📍display them! www.bgci.org/resources/bg...
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A great (and busy) day of #PlantHealthWeek getting colleagues at Fera Science Ltd. to make fungi and spores on our stall to show them the wonders of Mycology. They made some superb models! 🍄👩‍🎨
May 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#PlantHealthWeek: Explore & Join the IPSN!

100+ gardens, arboreta, research institutes & NPPOs collaborating to detect and report pests & diseases🔍share best practices🧤& raise awareness🪲

Join our global effort! 🌍

ℹ️More info: www.bgci.org/our-work/net...
May 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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📣 This #PlantHealthWeek we’re launching a new set of plant & tree health resources, created to support implementation of good biosecurity practices in botanic gardens and arboreta internationally.

🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#TreeHealthCentre #THC
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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#PlantHealthWeek: Boost collection biosecurity!🛡️🌱

Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN

Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants!
👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
May 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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It's #PlantHealthWeek! Take a look at our recent articles on tree pathogens & health:

🌱Phytophthora diseases & tree nurseries (Valatin et al) doi.org/10.1093/fore...

🌿Ash dieback (Combes et al)
doi.org/10.1093/fore...

🦠Pathogens & diversification in forestry (Morton et al) doi.org/10.1093/fore...
Reducing disease risks to British forests: an exploration of costs and benefits of nursery best practices
Abstract. Trade-disseminated Phytophthora species are implicated in a recent upsurge of Phytophthora diseases in the UK and the establishment and spread of
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May 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🌱Next week is Plant Health Week!🌱

A week to raise awareness and take action on plant health and biosecurity.

Join us as we spotlight IPSN resources, initiatives, and collaboration opportunities!

Let’s strengthen our global plant health network together!
#PlantHealthWeek
May 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Fantastic visit to the Bangladeshi women’s group at BEAP in Bradford listening and learning about #plants #biosecurity during #PlantHealthWeek with poets from @LeedsTrinity and scientists @FeraScience for @plantchief funded by @DefraGovUK

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May 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Delighted to welcome this years @harperadamsuni.bsky.social Plant pathology MSc students to The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum this morning for the longhorn beetle outbreak workshop.

#PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱
# PlantPathology🔬
#TreeHealth🌳
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Great visit to BEAP Community Partnership beapcp.co.uk and a warm welcome in planning our next Everyone’s a Seed creative writing workshop
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Excited to be nominated for an Educate North Award for our virtual reality #GreatSpruceBarkBeetle workshop funded by Defra. Info here: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/new-page-3

Well done team 🤜🤛 @Cobwebdr.bsky.social Stacy Vipas Wolf Wright Dominic Ennis Adam Tunnicliffe Krystal Tupman #TreeHealth
February 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
February 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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📰 New important blog by our Secretary General @bgci. Discussing study on botanic garden living collections led by @CUBotanicGarden. #plants #conservation
Well worth a read: "A rude awakening."👇
A rude awakening | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Dr. Paul Smith's latest blog "Rather than see this paper as a threat to the reputation of botanic gardens, we need to see it as an opportunity."
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January 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Read a short report of the Workshop on the future work of EPPO: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
The aim of the Workshop was to provide ideas and direction for the development of the EPPO Strategic Plan 2026 – 2030 both in the area of Phytosanitary Regulations and Plant Protection Products
November 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Early symptoms of Great Spruce Bark beetle - look out for resin drips and resin tube exit holes often seen below side branches. An #observatree priority pest www.observatree.org.uk/pests-and-di... @bertolicus.bsky.social @green-goddess.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Great to have Elizabeth Buchanan opening the Plant Health Conference organised by @apha in York and great chance to network @plantchief.bsky.social @royalsocbio.bsky.social @sjrafloat.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM