About the Authors

Alice E. Milne

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice E. Milne, James R. Bell

alice.milne@rothamsted.ac.uk

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

James R. Bell

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice E. Milne, James R. Bell

Affiliation Rothamsted Insect Survey, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

William D. Hutchison

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Frank van den Bosch

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Paul D. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David Crowder

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Stephen Parnell

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Andrew P. Whitmore

Affiliation Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEM JRB APW. Performed the experiments: AEM. Analyzed the data: AEM FvdB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AEM JRB WDH PDM DC SP APW. Wrote the paper: AEM JRB WDH FvdB PDM DC SP APW.