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Effect of water misting on lemonade wasps.
For a side project in collaboration with Wexit.bz we want to show that water misting repels lemonade wasps in a bio-friendly way to avoid nuisance in the summer months.
The student is asked to design the setup of the experiment ...
Supervisor: Eveline Verhulst
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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Population structure in ladybird beetles
Organisms are adapted to their local environment. This may mean that there are geographic differences in the occurrence of alleles at adaptive loci. The frequency at a particular locality of a certain adaptive allele is not only i ...
Supervisor: Dr P.W. de Jong
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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Trade-off between growth and defence in plants across the Brassicaceae family
Plants can defend themselves against insect herbivores in several ways. For example, they can produce toxic compounds or try to attract natural enemies of the herbivores. It is believed that there is a trade-off between plant grow ...
Supervisor: Laura Zuidema, Erik Poelman
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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Improve biocontrol of insects through crop diversification
Plant diversity plays a crucial role in suppressing pest pressure on crops by supporting the populations of natural enemies. The presence of different plant species in the ecosystem offers alternative food sources to beneficial in ...
Supervisor: Gabriele Bolletta, Erik Poelman
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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How to catch more (blood-fed) mosquitoes?
Several traps are available to trap mosquitoes and thereby monitor vectors of diseases like malaria, dengue and Zika. However, these traps are not designed to catch blood-fed mosquitoes. Blood-fed mosquitoes are especially interes ...
Supervisor: Sander Koenraadt, Tessa Visser
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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Roots crying for help?: harnessing root microbiome to help plants fight insect attack
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In agriculture, insect herbivory is one of the main biotic stresses that plants face because it represents around one-fifth of global crop yield losses. One sustainable alternative to fight insect pests can be to ...
Supervisor: Marcela Aragon Gomez (PhD candidate) & Dr. Karen Kloth / Dr. Pedro Beschoren da Costa
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of |
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