Further information
HGCA publications (all available from www.hgca.com)
Arable cropping and the environment – a guide (2002)
Pest management in cereals and oilseed rape – a guide (2003)
Field margins – guidelines for Entry Level stewardship in England (2005)
Orange wheat blossom midge – assessment and control (2005)
Enhancing Arable Biodiversity: Six practical solutions for farmers to enhance arable biodiversity, SAFFIE/HGCA (2007)
Topic Sheet 87 (2005) Controlling gout fly on wheat
Topic Sheet 98 (2007) Revised thresholds for economic cabbage stem flea beetle control
Topic Sheet 99 (2007) Predicting and controlling wheat bulb fly
Information Sheet 01 (2007) Controlling pollen beetle and combating insecticide resistance in oilseed rape
Project Report 173 (2004) LINK Integrated Farming Systems (a field-scale comparison of arable rotations), Volume I: Experimental work; Volume II: The economic evaluation of input decisions
Project Report 356 (2004) Managing biodiversity in field margins to enhance integrated pest control in arable crops (3-D Farming Project)
Project Report 416 (2007) The SAFFIE (Sustainable Arable Farming For an Improved Environment) project report Research Review 64 (2007) Importance of arthropod pests and their natural enemies in relation to recent farming practice changes in the UK
Insect identification and biology
Habitat management for invertebrates (1992) (JNCC) by Peter Kirby
Insects of Britain and Northern Europe (1993) (Collins Field Guide) by Michael Chinery
Field Studies Council publications
http://www.field-studies-council.org/publications/bycategory/terrestrial.aspx
Online key to insect orders
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html
Kennedy, CEJ and Southwood, TRE (1984) The number of species of insects associated with British trees: a re-analysis. J. Animal Ecology 53:455-478
Insects and habitat management
Buglife
www.buglife.org.uk
Butterfly Conservation
www.butterfly-conservation.org
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
www.gct.org.uk
Royal Entomological Society
www.royensoc.co.uk
The Amateur Entomologists’ Society
www.amentsoc.org
Agri-environment schemes
Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs
www.defra.gov.uk/erdp/
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Northern Ireland
www.ruralni.gov.uk/environment/countryside/schemes
The Scottish Government
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Agriculture/Environment/Agrienvironment
Welsh Assembly Government
www.wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/countryside_policy/farming/agri_env_schemes
Acknowledgements
This guide was funded by HGCA as a knowledge transfer project. It was written by Dr John Holland, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust; and Dr Steve Ellis, ADAS.
HGCA is grateful to many experts who have commented on draft versions of the guide, including:
James Clarke, ADAS; Dr Keith Walters, CSL; Dr David Cooper and Richard Brand-Harvey, Defra; Dr Andy Leader and David Roberts, Dow AgroSciences; Steve Moreby and Peter Thompson, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust; Patrick Goldsworthy, Goldsworthy Associates; Prof Graham Jellis and Dr Clare Kelly, HGCA; Dr Nigel Chadwick and Dr David Richardson, HSE/PSD; Guy Gagen and Julian Hasler, NFU; Dr Richard Harrington and Prof Wilf Powell, Rothamsted Research; Ian Stott, Syngenta;
Edited by Dr Clive Edwards, HGCA and Geoff Dodgson, Chamberlain.
Design: Chamberlain.
Illustrations: Tebbit Design.
Photographs: ADAS, Nicholas Aebischer, Roy Anderson, Tristan Bantock, Toby Barton, Tom Birkett, John Holland, Jon Oakley, Rothamsted Research, Peter Thompson.