Dr Richard J Hopkins
Head of Pest Behaviour Research Group
Health & Environment Department
Natural Resources Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Richard Hopkins joined NRI in the spring of 2014, moving from the Ecology Department of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.Richard’s work on Crucifer-insect interactions has two main areas of focus, host plant selection by crop pests and the induced changes that take place in plants following insect damage.
Research Interest
Insect behaviour, and works over the different scales at which insects make decisions whilst finding their egg laying site
