Professor Jeff Bale was born in Devon and studied at Newcastle University where he gained a first in Agricultural Zoology and his PhD in insect physiology and behaviour. He was the Social Secretary and then President of the Student’s Union. Jeff was a lecturer and senior lecturer at Leeds University and appointed to the Chair of Environmental Biology at Birmingham in 1992

Bale, J.S. and Hayward, S.A. Insect overwintering in a changing climate. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 980-994. Bale, J.S. (2010). Implications of cold tolerance for pest management. In ‘Low temperature biology of insects’, p. 342 – 373, eds. D.L. Denlinger and R.E. Lee. Cambridge University Press. Bale, J.S., van Lenteren, J.C. and Bigler, F. (2008) Biological Control. In ‘Sustainable Agriculture’, special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 363, 761-776. Hazell, S.P., Groutides, C., Neve, B.P., Blackburn, T.M. and Bale, J.S. (2010) A comparison of low temperature tolerance traits between closely related aphids from the tropics, temperate zone, and Arctic. Journal of Insect Physiology 56, 115-122. Hazell, S.P., Groutides, C., Douglas, A.E., Blackburn, T.M. and Bale, J.S. (2010) Hyperthermic aphids: insights into behaviour and mortality. Journal of Insect Physiology 56, 123-131.