Midge Study Presented at Nuffield Celebration Event 2008

Thomas Moens is a student from Portobello High School who has been working with APS all summer, investigating novel trapping methods for biting midges. Thomas recently presented his data at a celebration event held by the Nuffield Foundation, who had funded his bursary. This was held at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, 29th August 2008. The project concentrated on how to target traps at the group of midges thought to be the most likely vectors of bluetongue virus, were it to get into Scotland. The work involved a field trial on a local farm site, together with both morphological and molecular analysis of midge catches.

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