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Richard Naylor

Richard Naylor

 

BSc MPhil PhD
Independent Consultant Entomologist specialising in Bed Bugs, UK

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Website: www.CimexStore.co.uk

 

 

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH:

Feb 2012-present

Visiting Researcher in Evolutionary and Ecological Entomology Lab, University of Sheffield.
with Prof. Mike Siva-Jothy.

Oct 2008-2012

PhD in Evolutionary and Ecological Entomology Lab, University of Sheffield.
A BBSRC funded CASE Studentship with the Pest Management Consultancy.
Understanding the ecology and dispersal of the common bedbug.
with Prof. Mike Siva-Jothy and CASE partner Clive Boase (PMC). 

Oct 2005-2008

Research Assistant in Evolutionary and Ecological Entomology Lab, University of Sheffield.
Studied the relative investment of the constitutive and inducible components of the insect immune system, using mealworm beetles and Staph. aureus as a model system. Continued research on the evolutionary ecology of bedbugs.
with Prof. Mike Siva-Jothy and Prof. Mike Boots. 

July 2002-2005

Research assistant in Evolutionary and Ecological Entomology Lab, University of Sheffield.
Developed techniques for measuring bedbug immune systems.
Working with Prof. Mike Siva-Jothy.
Also completed a part time M. Phil in Jan 2007. 

1999-2002

Zoology BSc at University of Sheffield, S. Yorks.

 

CURRENT POSSITIONS:

  • Trustee and Chair of the Senate (expert panel) for The Bedbug Foundation.
  • Owner of CimexStore.co.uk, breeders and suppliers of live haematophagous insects for research and canine scent detection.
  • Independent Consultant Entomologist specialising in bed bugs.

 

CONFERENCES:

  • International Conference of Urban Pests 2008, Hungary- oral presentation on the use of an insect growth regulator (methoprene) on bedbugs.
  • PestEx 2007, ExCel centre, London – invited speaker on non-chemical bedbug control.
  • Bed Bug Summit 2011, Chicago, USA. – invited speaker on bedbug ecology and dispersal.
  • PestEx 2013, ExCel centre, London – invited speaker on bedbug ecology and dispersal.
  • International Congress of Entomology 2016, Florida, USA. – invited speaker on insect photography.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Fountain, T., Ravinet, M., Naylor, R., Reinhardt, K. and Butlin, R. (2016) A Linkage Map and QTL Analysis for Pyrethroid Resistance in the Bed Bug Cimex lectularius. G3. (in press).
  • European Code of Practice for Bed Bug Management, version 2 (2013), The Bed Bug Foundation, UK.
  • Naylor, R. A. and Boase, C. J. (2010) Practical solutions for treating laundry infested with Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 103:136-139.
  • Reinhardt, K., Isaac, D. & Naylor, R. (2010) Estimating the feeding rate of the bedbug Cimex lectularius in an infested room: an inexpensive method and a case study. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 24:46–54.
  • Reinhardt, K., Naylor, R., & Siva-Jothy, M.T. (2009) Ejaculate components delay reproductive senescence while elevating female reproductive rate in an insect. PNAS, 106: 21743-21747.
  • Otti, O., Naylor, R., Siva-Jothy, M.T. & Reinhardt, K. (2009) Bacteriolytic activity in the ejaculate of an insect. American Naturalist, 174: 292-295.
  • Reinhardt, K., Naylor, R., & Siva-Jothy M.T. (2009) Situation exploitation: higher male mating success when female resistance is reduced by feeding. Evolution, 63: 29-39.
  • Reinhardt, K., Kempke, D., Naylor, R. & Siva-Jothy, M.T. (2009) Sensitivity to bedbug bites, Cimex lectularius. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 23: 163-166.
  • Reinhardt, K. , Naylor, R. & Siva-Jothy M.T. (2005) Potential sexual transmission of environmental in a traumatically inseminating insect. Ecol. Entomol. 30: 607-611.
  • Reinhardt, K., Naylor, R. & Siva-Jothy, M. T. (2003) Reducing a cost of traumatic insemination: female bedbugs evolve a unique organ. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 270: 2371-2375.

 

 

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