Meet Prof. Rebecca Hallett Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Rebecca Hallett describes her research on invasive inspect species and pest management, specifically focused on the swede midge.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College
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Text: Prof. Rebecca Hallett
School of Environmental Sciences
Rebecca: I work on invasive insect species that arrive in Ontario and are causing economic
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problems in agricultural crops.
The types of questions that we look at range from basic biology, to understand more about these insects, through to developing pest management programs against them.
And the aim is to protect Ontario's agriculture as well as to minimize the environmental impact of pest management practices in agriculture.
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Rebecca: For the past 15 years we've been working on a little insect called the swede midge, which is causing massive problems in Ontario and Quebec's canola industry and is spreading across Canada.
We have looked in the past at various aspects of it's life history and biology, and now we're at the point of developing a decision-making tool for growers
using pheromone based trap captures, to time insecticide applications, which will help to protect the canola crop and also minimize the environmental impact of pest management
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in canola.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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