Dr. Stefan Krüssel
Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen
Pflanzenschutzamt- S achgebiet 3.7.3 Zoologie
Wunstorfer Landstraße 9
30453 Hannover
stefan.Kruessel@lwk-niedersachsen.de

Dr. Jörn Lehmhus
Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland
Julius Kühn-InstitutMesseweg 11-12
38104 Braunschweig
joern.lehmhus@julius-kuehn.de

• Finding answers to questions of planning, method, and analysis of experiments dealing with plant protection remedies against crop pests
• Promoting scientific work by presenting new procedures and methods to minimize the output of herbicides and pesticides
• Discussing current topics of integrated plant protection systems
• Cooperation with working groups of related thematic topics

• Pests as a cause for crop quality deficiencies
• Symptomatology and diagnosis of crop pests
• Strategies of infestation reduction in the field
• Evolution of pest populations in times of climatic change
• Pesticide resistance of pathogens
• Economic relevance of protection strategies

Our working goup cooperates with representatives of the Julius Kühn-Institute, State plant protection agencies, industries, and universities.