Mark Ramsden
@ipmmark.bsky.social
I'm an Entomologist and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) enthusiast working at ADAS in the UK.
Interested in the science of crop protection and the philosophy of IPM.
All views my own.
Interested in the science of crop protection and the philosophy of IPM.
All views my own.
IPM Decisions Platform: a European wide digital platform for pest forecasting
Get in touch if you have pest forecast models you'd like to see in the hands of farmers and advisors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFM...
Get in touch if you have pest forecast models you'd like to see in the hands of farmers and advisors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFM...
IPM Decisions Platform: a European wide digital platform for pest forecasting
YouTube video by IPM Decisions
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
IPM Decisions Platform: a European wide digital platform for pest forecasting
Get in touch if you have pest forecast models you'd like to see in the hands of farmers and advisors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFM...
Get in touch if you have pest forecast models you'd like to see in the hands of farmers and advisors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFM...
AHDB launch new collaborative research to level-up Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (CSFB) control
- evaluate novel approaches
- improve guidance
- fine-tune understanding of CSFB development
- generate data on natural enemies
- prime innovation in CSFB management.
ahdb.org.uk/news/new-col...
- evaluate novel approaches
- improve guidance
- fine-tune understanding of CSFB development
- generate data on natural enemies
- prime innovation in CSFB management.
ahdb.org.uk/news/new-col...
New collaborative research to level-up CSFB control | AHDB
A major new project will take cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) management in winter oilseed rape (OSR) to the next level, thanks to a collaborative AHDB research project.
ahdb.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
AHDB launch new collaborative research to level-up Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (CSFB) control
- evaluate novel approaches
- improve guidance
- fine-tune understanding of CSFB development
- generate data on natural enemies
- prime innovation in CSFB management.
ahdb.org.uk/news/new-col...
- evaluate novel approaches
- improve guidance
- fine-tune understanding of CSFB development
- generate data on natural enemies
- prime innovation in CSFB management.
ahdb.org.uk/news/new-col...
Reposted by Mark Ramsden
This is a cool paper! Global selection on insect antipredator coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is a cool paper! Global selection on insect antipredator coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Mark Ramsden
If you work in #forestry, please use these links:
Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Questionnaire for Foresters
ec.europa.eu
July 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you work in #forestry, please use these links:
Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Foresters advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Forestry products consumers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Reposted by Mark Ramsden
💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
OPER8 have launched their E-Learning alternative weed management module
www.oper-8.eu/knowledge-ba...
This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative weed management.
@adasgroup.bsky.social
www.oper-8.eu/knowledge-ba...
This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative weed management.
@adasgroup.bsky.social
E-learning
E-learning module
Learn more about alternative weed control solutions in
our E-learning module
This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative we...
www.oper-8.eu
September 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
OPER8 have launched their E-Learning alternative weed management module
www.oper-8.eu/knowledge-ba...
This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative weed management.
@adasgroup.bsky.social
www.oper-8.eu/knowledge-ba...
This E-learning module is designed to inform farmers, advisors, and policy makers about alternative weed management.
@adasgroup.bsky.social
IPMNET Bulletin September 2025
farmpep.net/sites/defaul...
- TSUM model on IPM Decisions forecasts similar risk of secondary spread of BYDV to this time last year
All news in the bulletin, now available on #FarmPEP
@adasgroup.bsky.social
farmpep.net/sites/defaul...
- TSUM model on IPM Decisions forecasts similar risk of secondary spread of BYDV to this time last year
All news in the bulletin, now available on #FarmPEP
@adasgroup.bsky.social
farmpep.net
September 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
IPMNET Bulletin September 2025
farmpep.net/sites/defaul...
- TSUM model on IPM Decisions forecasts similar risk of secondary spread of BYDV to this time last year
All news in the bulletin, now available on #FarmPEP
@adasgroup.bsky.social
farmpep.net/sites/defaul...
- TSUM model on IPM Decisions forecasts similar risk of secondary spread of BYDV to this time last year
All news in the bulletin, now available on #FarmPEP
@adasgroup.bsky.social
Great to see another piece of #IPMDecisions work out now as a Preprint: "Developing a generic DSS model metadata catalogue and APIs for crop protection."
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
@adasgroup.bsky.social #modelling #DSS #IPM #API @horizoneu.bsky.social
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
@adasgroup.bsky.social #modelling #DSS #IPM #API @horizoneu.bsky.social
Developing a generic DSS model metadata catalogue and APIs for crop protection. | agriRxiv
www.cabidigitallibrary.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Great to see another piece of #IPMDecisions work out now as a Preprint: "Developing a generic DSS model metadata catalogue and APIs for crop protection."
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
@adasgroup.bsky.social #modelling #DSS #IPM #API @horizoneu.bsky.social
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
@adasgroup.bsky.social #modelling #DSS #IPM #API @horizoneu.bsky.social
This weeks & all IPMNET Bulletin on FarmPEP farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Late blight, cutworm, carrot fly, pea moth, and cercospora leaf spot all worth checking (list is not complete!)
📣Are you doing something different? Share you Novel Approaches for reducing pesticide use and risk!
Late blight, cutworm, carrot fly, pea moth, and cercospora leaf spot all worth checking (list is not complete!)
📣Are you doing something different? Share you Novel Approaches for reducing pesticide use and risk!
farmpep.net
July 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This weeks & all IPMNET Bulletin on FarmPEP farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
Late blight, cutworm, carrot fly, pea moth, and cercospora leaf spot all worth checking (list is not complete!)
📣Are you doing something different? Share you Novel Approaches for reducing pesticide use and risk!
Late blight, cutworm, carrot fly, pea moth, and cercospora leaf spot all worth checking (list is not complete!)
📣Are you doing something different? Share you Novel Approaches for reducing pesticide use and risk!
💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
💚Help us understand how we can make better decisions in agriculture!
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
💚@greennudgeproject.bsky.social short survey to understand what drives sustainable choices?
🔗Farmers: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Farmers advisors: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
🔗Everyone else: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Duncan Coston @adasgroup.bsky.social talks us through trials of Barley yellow dwarf virus #BYDV in winter wheat, looking at novel approaches to manage this important pest on the AHDB Strategic Farm East 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM
Strategic Cereal Farm East BYDV trial update harvest 2024 with Duncan Coston | AHDB
YouTube video by AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds
www.youtube.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Duncan Coston @adasgroup.bsky.social talks us through trials of Barley yellow dwarf virus #BYDV in winter wheat, looking at novel approaches to manage this important pest on the AHDB Strategic Farm East 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM
🚨today is last day to register for this Workshop on Wednesday!
join to discuss novel approaches for sustainable pest management, focused on the role of peer to peer learning among farmers and advisors.
join to discuss novel approaches for sustainable pest management, focused on the role of peer to peer learning among farmers and advisors.
📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
us02web.zoom.us
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨today is last day to register for this Workshop on Wednesday!
join to discuss novel approaches for sustainable pest management, focused on the role of peer to peer learning among farmers and advisors.
join to discuss novel approaches for sustainable pest management, focused on the role of peer to peer learning among farmers and advisors.
Reposted by Mark Ramsden
📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
us02web.zoom.us
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Key results and peer-to-peer learning tools for sustainable pest management. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
us02web.zoom.us
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 IPM Online Workshop
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Insights for improving pest management with reduced inputs.
📅 Wed 16 July 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 12:00 (UK time)
🧠 Interactive Quiz & Discussion
🔧 Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools
📊 IPM Project Results & Key Resources
Register by 14 July
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Vivid Small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia) larvae spotted in #Cambridgeshire today.
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...
June 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Vivid Small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia) larvae spotted in #Cambridgeshire today.
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59346-S...
Want to know more about IPM Science and Practice?
Check out this video series!
From theory to practical application 😀
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out this video series!
From theory to practical application 😀
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Integrated Pest Management: Science & Practice - a video series about disease control in cereal crops - YouTube
This video series offers a detailed overview of disease control methods in cereal crops using Integrated Pest Management techniques. This series is funded by...
youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Want to know more about IPM Science and Practice?
Check out this video series!
From theory to practical application 😀
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out this video series!
From theory to practical application 😀
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
New adult 7spot ladybird emerging soon
May 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New adult 7spot ladybird emerging soon
14 spot ladybirds were busy over the bank holiday weekend.
Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...
Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...
May 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
14 spot ladybirds were busy over the bank holiday weekend.
Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...
Propylea quattuordecimpunctata, More here:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61532-P...
Garden Orb Weaver (Araneus diadematus) spiderlings
May 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Garden Orb Weaver (Araneus diadematus) spiderlings
💚 Green Nudge Conference today!
⌚ Start Time: 9:00 AM CET
🚨live web stream link: live.eesc.europa.eu/play/?id=658
🧾 agenda here: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...
⌚ Start Time: 9:00 AM CET
🚨live web stream link: live.eesc.europa.eu/play/?id=658
🧾 agenda here: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...
EESC Live Streaming HLS - beta
live.eesc.europa.eu
May 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
💚 Green Nudge Conference today!
⌚ Start Time: 9:00 AM CET
🚨live web stream link: live.eesc.europa.eu/play/?id=658
🧾 agenda here: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...
⌚ Start Time: 9:00 AM CET
🚨live web stream link: live.eesc.europa.eu/play/?id=658
🧾 agenda here: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...
📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying begun
🟠#Carrotfly and #saddlegallmidge emergence at 50% Keep checking current risk at your locations:
platform.ipmdecisions.net
From @IpmDecisions
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying begun
🟠#Carrotfly and #saddlegallmidge emergence at 50% Keep checking current risk at your locations:
platform.ipmdecisions.net
IPMDecisionsPlatform
platform.ipmdecisions.net
May 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying begun
🟠#Carrotfly and #saddlegallmidge emergence at 50% Keep checking current risk at your locations:
platform.ipmdecisions.net
From @IpmDecisions
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying begun
🟠#Carrotfly and #saddlegallmidge emergence at 50% Keep checking current risk at your locations:
platform.ipmdecisions.net
IPMWorks: Using Decision Support Systems to improve canopy disease management in arable crops in Sweden
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
The DSS was shown to support good decision making on farm in Sweden
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
The DSS was shown to support good decision making on farm in Sweden
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
IPMWorks: Using Decision Support Systems to improve canopy disease management in arable crops in Sweden
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
The DSS was shown to support good decision making on farm in Sweden
ipmworks.net/toolbox/en/#...
The DSS was shown to support good decision making on farm in Sweden
📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions in the UK:
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Saddlegallmidge emergence
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying
🟠#Carrotfly emergence
Keep checking current risk at your locations: platform.ipmdecisions.net
From @IpmDecisions in the UK:
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Saddlegallmidge emergence
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying
🟠#Carrotfly emergence
Keep checking current risk at your locations: platform.ipmdecisions.net
IPMDecisionsPlatform
platform.ipmdecisions.net
May 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📢IPMNET Bulletins - in season
From @IpmDecisions in the UK:
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Saddlegallmidge emergence
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying
🟠#Carrotfly emergence
Keep checking current risk at your locations: platform.ipmdecisions.net
From @IpmDecisions in the UK:
🟢#septoria infection low risk
🔴#Saddlegallmidge emergence
🔴#Cabbagerootfly egg laying
🟠#Carrotfly emergence
Keep checking current risk at your locations: platform.ipmdecisions.net
In this video we can see two examples of the no-tillage technique in two plots with different crops (pea and sunflower) to eliminate or reduce a weed, such as vallico.
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVy...
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVy...
#IPM Tutorials - No-Tillage for Weed Control in Pea & Sunflower Fields
YouTube video by IPMWORKS
www.youtube.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In this video we can see two examples of the no-tillage technique in two plots with different crops (pea and sunflower) to eliminate or reduce a weed, such as vallico.
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVy...
#IPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVy...