Michelle Fountain is a British entomologist and ecologist, she is Head of Pest and Pathogen Ecology at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany's East Malling Research Station.
[1] Fountain studied her doctorate at the University of Reading, her focus was on springtails (Collembola) in urban soils.
[4] Fountain has researched control methods for the pest insect spotted wing drosophila in the UK.
[5] She researched how earwigs could be beneficial in orchards, as they can eat pest of fruit trees such as wooly aphid and codling moth.
[7] She appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme in 2014 talking about the unusual abundance of fruit flies and explained this was likely due to a mild winter.