The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
Science
Ms Enggel Carmo
Entomologist - Visiting PhD Student
Protecting Crops and the Environment
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
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Biography
Enggel is currently serving as a Visitor Ph.D. student, undertaking a project focused on the interactions between take-all fungi, plants, and insects within the chemical ecology group. Her project aims to verify whether take-all-infested wheat plants exhibit greater attractiveness to aphids compared to non-infested wheat plants. Additionally, she seeks to determine if the volatiles emitted by plants under herbivory are more appealing to aphid natural enemies.
Enggel is a Ph.D. student in Entomology at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her doctoral research centres on exploring insect-plant interactions arising from multiple herbivory, with a specific emphasis on behaviour, insect biology, chemical ecology, and the biological control of sucking insects in agricultural crops.
Awards
- 2019 - BSc Agricultural Engineering, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil (UFRPE)
- 2021 - Masters in Entomology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil (UFRPE)