Current Projects:

• The role of olfactory and physical cues in aggregation behaviour, dispersal and host location by the single-sex Fuller's rose weevil.
  
  
• Identification of host volatiles attractive to female currant clear wing, Synanthedon tipuliformis a pest of blackcurrant.
  
  
• Lure and kill technology for control of Gum-leaf skeletonizer.
  
  
• Stabilization of the thermo-labile sex pheromone of the painted apple moth, Teia anartoides.
  
  
• Short and long range semiochemicals for the burnet pine beetle, Arhopalus tristis and other cerambycidae beetles.
  
  
• Identification of aggregation pheromones in two Sitona species.
  
  
• Chemical ecology for insecticide risk reduction.
  
  
• Web-based automated trapping system for monitoring insect pests.
  
  
• Improving sensitivity of the detection trapping systems for invasive species.
  
  
• List of New Zealand invasive species.