David Wainhouse, BSc, MSc, DIC, FRES, PhD

Project Manager, Centre for Forestry and Climate Change

David Wainhouse joined Forest Research in 1974 after completing an MSc in Applied Entomology at Imperial College, London and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has worked on a number of projects with the common theme of the role of tree resistance in the ecology of forest pests and its contribution to Integrated Pest Management. David is currently working on the influence of climate change on the ecology and management of forest pests

Current role

Project Manager, Centre for Forestry and Climate Change

Research on the impact of climate change on insect life cycles, distribution and pest status.

Current programmes

Pests and pathogens in a changing environment
Project Manager

PhD Studentships through links with University of Coleraine and University of York.

Affiliations and achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
• Member of the British Ecological Society

Research areas

• Resistance of trees to insect pests
• Integrated pest management
• Insect life cycles
• Impact of climate change.

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Main recent publications

Tan, J.Y., Wainhouse, D., Morgan, G. and Day, K.R. (2011). Interaction between flight, reproductive development and oviposition in the pine weevil, Hylobius abietis ^(PDF-710K). Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 13, 149–156.

Wainhouse, D., Reay, S. and Kay, M. (2010). Predicting the vulnerability of New Zealand radiata pine plantations to the European pine weevil ^(PDF-723K). Forestry, 83, 277-283.

Tan, J.Y., Wainhouse, D., Day, K.R. and Morgan, G. (2010). Flight ability and reproductive development in newly emerged pine weevil Hylobius abietis and potential effects of climate change ^(PDF-686K). Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2010), 12, 427–434.

Wainhouse, D., Staley, J.T., Jinks, R. and Morgan, G. (2009). Growth and defence in young pine and spruce and the expression of resistance to a stem feeding weevil ^(PDF-532K) . Oecologia, 158, 641-650

Wainhouse, D., Brough, S. and Greenacre, B. (2007). Managing the pine weevil on lowland pine ^(PDF-1890K). Forestry Commission Practice Note 14.

Wainhouse, D and Brough, S. (2007) Resistance of young conifers to feeding damage by pine weevil ^(PDF-787K). Forestry Commission Information Note 87.

Wainhouse, D. (2005). Ecological methods in forest pest management. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Wainhouse, D., Staley, J., Johnston, J. and Boswell, R. (2005)  The effect of environmentally induced changes in the bark of young conifers on feeding behaviour and reproductive development of adult Hylobius abietis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) ^(PDF-591K). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 95, 151-159

Wainhouse, D. (2004). Hylobius abietis - Host utilisation and resistance. In Bark and wood boring insects in living trees in Europe, a synthesis. (eds. F Lieutier, K. R. Day, A Battisti, J-C Grégoire and H. F. Evans), pp. 365-379. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Wainhouse, D., Boswell, R. and Ashburner, R. (2004). Maturation feeding and reproductive development in adult pine weevil, Hylobius abietis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 94, 81-87.

Wainhouse, D., Ashburner, R., & Boswell, R. (2001)  Reproductive development and maternal effects in the pine weevil Hylobius abietis. Ecological Entomology 26, 655-661.

Wainhouse, D.,  Ashburner, R.,  Forrest, I.,  Boswell, R. (2000)  The effect of variation in light and nitrogen on the composition of resin in young Sitka spruce. Silvae Genetica 49, 45-49

Wainhouse, D., Murphy, S., Greig, B., Webber, J., Vielle, M. (1998) The role of the bark beetle Cryphalus trypanus in the transmission of the vascular wilt pathogen of takamaka (Calophylum inophylum) in the Seychelles. Forest Ecology and Management 108, 193-199

Wainhouse, D. Ashburner, R., Ward, E., Rose, J. (1998) The effect of variation in light and nitrogen on growth and defence in young Sitka spruce ^(PDF-791K). Functional Ecology 12, 561-572

Wainhouse, D., Ashburner, R., Ward, E., and Boswell, R. (1998) The effect of lignin and bark wounding on susceptibility of spruce trees to Dendroctonus micans. Journal of Chemical Ecology 24,  1551-1561  

Wainhouse, D. and Jukes, M.R. (1997) Geographical variation within populations of Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Britain. Bulletin of Entomological Research 87, 95-99.

Storer, A.J., Wainhouse, D. and Speight, M.R. (1997) The effect of larval aggregation behaviour on larval growth of the spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus micans. Ecological Entomology 22, 109-115

Wainhouse,D., Rose, D. R. and Peace, A.J. (1997) The influence of preformed defences on the dynamic wound response in spruce bark. Functional Ecology 11, 564-572.

Wainhouse, D. and Ashburner, R. (1996) The influence of genetic and environmental factors on a quantitative defensive trait in spruce. Functional Ecology 10, 137-143.