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Marta Shocket

@martashocket.bsky.social
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Lecturer @ Lancaster University LEC | ecology & evolution of infectious disease, vector-borne disease, climate (change), stats/models, insects, Daphnia | they/them

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Marta Shocket @martashocket.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Lots of great talks so far at the UK VBD conference in Liverpool, but most interesting new fact for me so far came from UK APHA's Ben Jones: There are parasitic wasps for Ixodes ticks that were trialled for biocontrol in the late 1990s! Wikimedia commons pic of Ixodiphagus hookeri.
Wikimedia commons pic of Ixodiphagus hookeri
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