17/08 Unpublished File Photo from 2010 showing the diseased leaves of a horse chestnut tree that has been attacked by thehorse-chestnu
17/08 Unpublished File Photo from 2010 showing the diseased leaves of a horse chestnut tree that has been attacked by thehorse-chestnut leaf miner moth in Horndean, nationwide mission to save conkers from alien invaders is underway. A new smart-phone 'app' has been launched to track the horse-chestnut leaf miner moth. ..Conker collectors are being asked to upload photos of diseased and healthy horse chestnut tree leaves so that university boffins can study the spread of the moth which first arrived in London in then it has spread at a rate of 40 to 60 km per year and now covers half of the country, including much of south-central England, East Anglia, the Midlands and most recently Yorkshire and at the Universities of Bristol and Hull are now asking for the public's help in monitoring this spread through a combination of new technology and old-fashioned , they want to understand the invasion better with a view to combating the damage caused by the alien special mobile phone app has been devised to allow people to upload a photo of any horse chestnut leaves they come across, either with or without the indication of alien moths, which will pin-point their location and help to build up a picture of which areas are suffering from the are also asked to collect a leaf from an infected tree and put it into a plastic bag before documenting the insects which emerge later in the month. This is to gauge how many are natural pest controllers, in the form of tiny parasitic wasps, that had killed the developing is the largest project of its kind in the UK and is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)...Dr Darren Evans from the University of Hull said: "The traditional game of conkers may be under threat, because trees infected with the alien moth produce smaller "With this in mind, we're inviting people from all parts of t
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