Head: Dr. Beat Wermelinger

Gall of the adelgid Sacchiphantes viridis

Our group Forest Entomology investigates forest insects in their broadest sense: ecology of potential forest pests, natural enemies, diversity of forest insects.

Research topics

• Infestation dynamics of bark beetles, effect of natural enemies.
• Interactions between host trees and bark beetles
  
• Recolonization of windthrow and wildfire areas by insect communities.
• Dependency of dead wood (saproxylic) insects on tree and stand characteristics.
  

Knowledge transfer

• Scientific publications
• Teaching at University and non-University levels, supervision of students' theses.
  
• Outreach articles in journals, excursions, courses

Picture database: At the moment, our digital picture database holds more than 11'000 images of insects and spiders of 1500 different species.