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Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside animals from the big wild world

Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French take up the rare opportunity to delve deep inside some of nature's wondrous wild animals offering new insights into their success as a species

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Wild Inside: The Aphid

The Aphid

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Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the sap sucking aphid.

Prof. Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French delve inside the tiny, sap-sucking aphid to unravel its extraordinary success as a plant pest, and give clues to curtailing its damaging impact.

The tiny sap-sucking aphid, at just a few millimetres long, is the scourge of many gardeners and crop-growers worldwide, spreading astonishingly rapidly and inflicting huge damage as it seeks to outwit many host plants’ natural defences. With insights and guidance from aphid expert George Seddon-Roberts at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, some delicate dissecting tools, and a state of the art microscope, Professor Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French delve inside this herbivorous insect to unravel the anatomy and physiology that’s secured its extraordinary reproductive success, whilst offering new clues as to how we could curtail its damaging impact in the future. 
 
Co-Presenters: Ben Garrod and Jess French  
Executive Producer: Adrian Washbourne  
Producer: Ella Hubber 
Editor: Martin Smith 
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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