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Introducing ‘Mission: pest controllers 2020’! Conker trees are under attack by ‘alien’ invaders - a small leaf-mining moth. Infected trees are weakened and produce smaller conkers. Take part in our new #CitizenScience at conkertreescience.org.uk and see how you can help [thread]
Wonderful celebration of #conkers as part of @RobGMacfarlane The Lost Words exhibition still on @TheSillNland @NlandNP
We’re ready for your records! If you’ve got your Conker #LeavesInBags now is the time to check them for ‘pest controllers’ and send us your results conkertreescience.org.uk
Today is the LAST DAY in which you can pick a #conker leaf for Mission: pest controllers2020. Find out more at conkertreescience.org.uk with support from @UniofNewcastle and @UK_CEH
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Lovely weather (here at least) and still time for everyone to pop down to your nearest Conker tree 🌳 to collect a leaf to take part in conkertreescience.org.uk. Today is the last day for part 1 of the mission!
@conkerscience arrived home to cheshire. Is this one ? Searched high and low in northumberland but there were very trees and were healthy
We’ve been receiving wonderful messages of support from #CitizenScientists up and down the UK taking part in ‘Mission: pest controllers 2020’ this weekend. For the project to work we need as many volunteers as possible to take part [1/2]
We are also interested is receiving records of #conker trees that DO NOT have signs of the horse chestnut leafminer moth. These can be upload with our easy to use smartphone app: conkertreescience.org.uk/lea… [2/2]
Check out @bbcnewcastle tomorrow (Thursday) at 9:15am to hear @DarrenMarkEvans promoting ‘Mission: pest controllers 2020’, our new #citizenscience project running NOW conkertreescience.org.uk
Listen to our very own @DarrenMarkEvans being interviewed about ‘Mission: pest controllers 2020’ today (Wednesday) on BBC Radio Cumbria @BBC_Cumbria at 17:45 bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl79
Taking part is an easy as 1-2-3, but you need to start THIS WEEK! Contribute to real science, and discover the amazing world of tiny insects affecting our conker trees. #citizenscience #insects #nature Full details at conkertreescience.org.uk
We first ran this #citizenscience 10 years ago. So let's discover what has changed with our #conker trees and the #leafminer since then!
Back then the project was reported by @lucysiegle @BBCCountryfile @BBCTheOneShow @DilgerTV @BBCBreakfast and many others. @MarkKinver
Are you ready for our next mission? Stand by for instructions as part of the @UN International Year of Plant Health #IYPH2020 #IYPH #CitizenScience, with @mjopocock and @DarrenMarkEvans
What other Conker names and memories do you have?
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Horse chestnut has been put on the official extinction list bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
Lovely horse chestnut 🌰 hedge in Paris. Low level of leafminer infestation - due to leaf litter cleared each winter?
Conker crisis: heatwave leaves UK crop shriveled ahead of World Conker Championships telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08… via @telegraphnews
Help us track the spread of invasive horse chestnut leaf miner moths by taking part in Conker Tree Science conkertreescience.org.uk/hom…. We are equally interested in records where they are not present.
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Beautiful filming of tiny wasps laying eggs inside aphids bbc.co.uk/programmes/p069bf6… The same type of insects also attack horse-chestnut leaf miner larvae conkertreescience.org.uk/pes… @BBCSpringwatch