RESEARCH GROUP
Agricultural entomology
Updated: June 2025
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Group members
- Lisa Dickel
- Katja Fedrowitz
- Ola Lundin
- Grace Mercy Amboka
- Riccardo Bommarco
- Fabian Bötzl
- Valeria Carini
- Florence Damiens
- Benjamin Feit
- Mattias Jonsson
- Dimitrije Markovic
- Anna Nilsson
- Amelie Noel
- Joachim Rodrigues de Miranda
- Neus Rodriguez-Gasol
- Xinyan Ruan
- Nicholas Scaramella
- Emilia Semberg
- Winnie Söderberg
- Pierre Vallet
- Cassandra Vogel
- Sara Gustafsson
Related research topics
Insects are many and diverse. They drive key ecological processes in the agricultural landscape such pollination, herbivore regulation and decomposition. Many are beneficial, but some are problematic and can be pests in our crops.
- We explore insects and other arthropods in the agroecosystem that regulate populations of crop pests and weeds, pollinate crops and wild plants, decompose litter and produce honey.
- We develop tools to manage problematic insects for farming.
- We explore how climate and management of the field, farm and landscape affect plants and arthropod food webs, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and crop production.
- We develop sustainable crop protection and crop production systems.
- Experiments and molecular tools are used to map who eats whom in the food webs.
- Diseases and genetic profiles are diagnosed in honey bees and wild bees. Our research on beekeeping and bee health is unique in Sweden and has global relevance.
- Plants communicate chemically, which can be used to develop sustainable crop protection strategies based on interactions between plants, insects, and their natural enemies.