This paper explores teaching business students research methods using a psychogeographical approach, specifically the technique of dérive. It responds to calls for new ways of teaching in higher education and addresses the dearth of literature on teaching undergraduate business students qualitative research methods. Psychogeography challenges the dominance of questionnaires and interviews, introduces students to data variety, problematizes notions of success and illuminates the importance of observation and location. Using two studies with undergraduate students, the authors emphasize place and setting, the perception of purpose, the choice of data, criteria of success and the value of guided reflection and self-reflection in students’ learning. Additionally the data reflect on the way students perceive research about management and the nature of management itself. The paper concludes that the deployment of psychogeography to teach business research methods although complex and fraught with difficulty is nevertheless viable, educationally productive and worthy of further research.

Pesticides provide an important component of integrated pest management, but the timing, accuracy of dosage, and method of applying the pesticides need careful consideration to permit harmonisation with other control tactics. Concern about pesticide spray drift has led to categorising the spray quality of nozzles, which is defined by comparing the droplet spectra of selected reference nozzles measured with a laser light diffraction analyser. However, there is a conflict between a need for small droplets for increased biological efficacy and large droplets to reduce downwind drift. Registration authorities tend to favour a coarser spray with large droplets, and an untreated barrier area that can be left around a treated crop to protect sensitive crops downwind that can provide a refuge for natural enemies. In some circumstances, drift can be reduced with small droplets by electrostatically charging a spray. The charged spray needs to be released close to the crop to avoid the upward dispersion of droplets within a spray cloud due to mutual repulsion exacerbated by convective air movement. Increased deposition of charged sprays on the crop foliage is associated with less soil contamination which allows greater survival of ground-dwelling predators. This feature needs to be exploited by growing relatively narrow strips of a range of crops so that if one crop needs a pesticide treatment, natural enemies can be conserved in adjacent untreated crops. By careful selection of insecticides and dosage rates, these predators should be able to recolonise the treated area and thus integrate chemical with biological control. Application of more selective mycopesticides may require special formulations as well as particular droplet spectra. Pesticides can also be applied mixed with attractants such as pheromones, as a ‘lure and kill’ technique.

Les exuvies nymphales et les imagos males de chironomidés obtenus par dérive au cours d'un cycle de 24 heures, en septembre 1985, ont permis de dénombrer 64 espèces ; 10 sont nouvelles pour l'Espagne.Les nombres d'espèces récoltées dans les échantillons horaires varient au cours de la journée : 42 sont récoltées au crépuscule, 23 à 36 la nuit et 15 à 25 seulement le matin.Le cycle d'émergence de 13 espèces abondantes est étudié à partir des exuvies. Deux espèces émergent principalementle jour. Les autres émergent surtout au crépuscule et/ou durant la nuit. La réduction de la luminosité paraît constituerle facteur déterminant les émergences.

Les prélèvements de dérive en période de décrue réalisés conjointement dans le chenal principal et un chenal secondaire de la Durance ont mis en évidence l'importance de la dérive dans le repeuplement du lit principal. Une partie de cette dérive provient du champ d'inondation temporairement colonisé par les organismes benthiques dispersés, l'autre vient des chenaux latéraux.