Dr Bug Lady

Kirsten Ellis

BAppSc(RurTech)Hons1, PhD in the making

Agricultural Research Scientist

IPM Crop Consultant 


WELCOME TO DR BUG LADY

Agriculture needs to change

Our love affair with broad-spectrum insecticides is not sustainable...

...but we also need to eat

In the 1960s Rachel Carson warned us of the environmental impacts of broad-spectrum insecticides

IPM (Integrated pest management) became a 'thing' that long ago, and change began

We made great progress navigating, shifting and changing pest management strategies until the 1990s

But this century, we've become stuck! The research has stopped progressing, its at a snail's pace. The WHY is super curious! 

In Australia, there's a whole lot of doing it like its 1999

Which can leave growers in sometimes completely hopeless situations facing devastating crop losses thanks to the bugs

If we can't get unstuck, it will be our food supply that will suffer. I'd rather we started getting unstuck now, instead of waiting until we're hungry! 

ASK dr bug lady

Can I help you implement an IPM strategy on your horticultural farm? 

Lets catch up over a virtual coffee

I'd love to hear about your cropping enterprise and the challenges you're facing with staying economically viable. Are your bugs behaving themselves and not munching your profits?
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