Ylva Hillbur

Assistant prof/PhD
Head of department
Chemical ecology
Integrated plant protection
Nematology
Resistance biology
V building

+46 40 41 53 02
+46 702 51 90 98
Fax +46 40 46 19 91

ylva.hillbur@slu.se

Postal address
Dept. of Plant Protection Biology
Box 102
SE-230 53 Alnarp
Sweden

Visiting address Delivery address
Sundsvägen 14 Växtskyddsvägen 3

Education

MSc, Lund University. 1991
PhD, SLU. 2001

Research projects

Gall midge sex pheromones and pest management. Gall midges and host-shift induced speciation. Semiochemically-based management of the sorghum chafer, Pachnoda interrupta, in Ethiopia. Web-based forecasting of tortricids for integrated pest management.

Teaching

Kemi och ekologi för den agrara näringen (KE0058)
Landscape in transition – impacts of and adaptation to climate change (SG0042/LP0559)

Selected publications

Boddum T, Skals N, Hill SR, Hansson BS, Hillbur Y. Gall midge olfaction: Pheromone sensitive olfactory neurons in Contarinia nasturtii and Mayetiola destructor. Submitted

Bengtsson JB, Wolde-Hawariat Y, Negash M, Jembere B, Seyoum E, Larsson MC, Hansson BS, Hillbur Y. Behavioral evidence for pheromone-based communication in sorghum chafer, Pachnoda interrupta. Submitted

Molnár B, Boddum T, Szocs G, Hillbur Y. 2009. Occurrence of two pest gall midges, Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldeman) and Dasineura gleditchiae (Osten Sacken) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on ornamental trees in Sweden. Entomologisk tidskrift, 130: 113-120

Bengtsson JB, Khbaish H, Wolde-Hawariat Y, Negash M, Jembere B, Seyoum E, Larsson MC, Hansson BS, Hillbur Y. 2009. Field attractants for Pachnoda interrupta (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): identification by means of GC-EAD and single sensillum screening. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 35: 1063-1076

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