A company with expertise in the use of pheromones for the environmentally friendly control of insect pests; strong links with South America and Africa where many pest social insects are found; has a number of product and technology 'needs' in the social insect sector which it feels will benefit from access to our collective expertise and new developments. (main contact: Keele)

A company which has been working in the allergen field since 1980. Their research department has developed new kinds of immunotherapy and has a special interest in studying wasp venoms in collaboration with the network. (main contact: Firenze)

They have made use of social insects in the Sheffield laboratory for the recent TV programme "Battle of the Sexes-Family Affairs" and are willing to host short-term visitors. (main contact: Sheffield)

An international bee industry/beekeeper group; predominantly British but with many members in Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere. Main interests are conserving, breeding and improving native races of honey bees (e.g., black bees in western Europe). (main contact: Sheffield)

The "Future Systems" research group is specifically interested in insights that can be obtained from insect societies in the design of complex systems, and questions of information transfer and system reliability. (main contact: Sheffield)

A bee-keeping company willing to host visitors who want to learn about practical bee-keeping and pollination of plants in greenhouses. Also willing to teach control of honey bee diseases. (main contact: Sheffield)

A world leader in commercial biological control of insect pests and in the commercial rearing of bumblebees for pollination of greenhouse crops. (main contact: Copenhagen)

A company with expertise in the use of pheromones for the environmentally friendly control of insect pests. A partnership between the Keele group and Trifolio was built up during a successful EU AZTEC Biotechnology Project studying the insect antifeedant Azadirachtin which Trifolio-M has developed into a successful product. They now wish to develop pheromones for the control and monitoring of social insects which seriously damage stored crops and materials. (main contact: Keele)