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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Mosquito radar: unravelling mosquito ecology through a citizen science approach
We launched a citizen science approach (Muggenradar, www.muggenradar.nl) with the aim to better understand the ecology of Dutch mosquitoes. We aim to understand spatial and temporal patterns in mosquito nuisance and abundance. We ...
Supervisor: Sander Koenraadt
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

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

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

Using insect frass in a diverse cropping system and its effects on the insect community and biocontrol
This project can be a BSc thesis, an MSc thesis, or an internship. Insect frass, a promising alternative fertilizer composed of insect excretion and exuviae, enhances plant defenses against herbivorous insects. Our study aims t ...
Supervisor: Andi Dirham Nasruddin; Erik Poelman
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

INTERNSHIP IN NORTHERN SWEDEN: the effect of rhizobacteria on aphids in potato plants
In this internship, you will get training in Wageningen and spent some months in the Umea Plant Science Centre, Sweden, to do your experiments. If you love insect-plant relationships, snow and cinnamon buns this might be the perfe ...
Supervisor: Karen Kloth, Benedicte Albrectsen, Arti Mishra
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

How does early season defence induction by omnivore insects alter insect community and plant fitness in the open field? (NEW)
Omnivorous insect predators have been increasingly used for biological pest control in the past decades. As omnivores, they feed both on plants and herbivore pests. The advantage of omnivorous predators is that they can establish ...
Supervisor: Nina Zhang, Erik Poelman
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

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

Beware of hyper-parasitoids: plant and insect responses to parasitized herbivores.
Hyperparasitoids are major limiting factors in biological control. This is because they parasitize on insects which we use as biological control agents. Understanding the ecology of hyperparasitoids is crucial to develop measures ...
Supervisor: Erik Poelman
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

Testing biological a stable fly control protocol in a grazing herd in the Netherlands
Location: Dobbelhoeve, Udenhout, NL Period: April – October 2024 Involved parties: Bestico, Lely International, Dobbelhoeve, Kaasboerderij Matthijsen Goal: Test effectiveness of a protocol using beneficial insects in the ba ...
Supervisor: Rozan van Rossum (Lely)
Marjolein Derks (WUR)
Martine Kos (WUR)
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

Sustainable solutions to control psyllids in pear orchards (Psylla spp) (Internship)
Pear psyllids represent one of the major obstacles for the transition to an effective and ecologically safe pear production. Psyllids colonize pear orchards early in the season and rapidly build up high population levels. Psyllids ...
Supervisor: Dr. Tibor Bukovinszki
Dr. Martine Kos
Department: Entomology, Laboratory of

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