Wasps (and me!) On #Radio4 #YouAndYour today 12.35ish. Follow link to #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey here and in @bbcsounds.bsky.social app. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @UCLNews www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them! I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion #MendTheGap #SpringlineProject Book your free ticket here: cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e... #WaspLove

Highly recommend applying for this. An amazing experience in an outstanding location

Applications for this year’s Alternet summer school open until the end of April: Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/ supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social and taking place in Peyresq, a mountain village in the Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France 🧪

📢#RESAgForestEnt has a brand new May issue out See what's published in Agricultural & Forest Entomology Volume 27, Issue 2🔽 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563/2025/27/2 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy": this year's @alterneteurope.bsky.social summer school supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social is open for applicants from postgraduate students and early career researchers, deadline 30th April: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool... 1/2

Our Feb 2025 issue of Agricultural & Forest Entomology, @AFEntomology Vol 27 Issue 1, is a Special Issue: Advances in Insect #Biomonitoring for Agriculture & Forestry 🌳🌾 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563... @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

🐝 UK insect researchers, we need your input 🦋 The RES is gathering insights on your experiences with #InsectEthics applications. Whether you engage in the process or not, your feedback matters! 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... #Entomology #ResearchSurvey

The Advances in Insect Biomonitoring for Agriculture and Forestry Special Issue includes this must watch/read paper on ultra high-speed photography of aphid flight, link to a video at the start: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #biodiversity #monitoring @royentsoc.bsky.social 🧪

Santiago Masagué et al. demonstrate the importance of considering multiple sensory perspectives when designing monitoring methods. By altering the visual cues associated with pheromone lures for an invasive forest wasp, capture frequency was increased. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

Ayman Asiri et al. review the potential for semiochemical analysis for the detection of insect diseases, focusing on the context of pollinators. They discuss recent advances that allow in-field surveillance, potential applications and future prospects. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda et al. review the increasing adoption of camera trapping for detecting insect predator-prey interactions. They discuss the equipment used, other parameters and considerations, guidance for new adopters and future advances likely to come soon. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

@bensjhawthorne.bsky.social et al. review the integration of DNA metabarcoding with traditional insect monitoring methods in agriculture. Molecular analysis presents many distinct benefits, but also some challenges that require careful consideration and expertise. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

@mukilansuresh.bsky.social et al. discuss the potential for computer vision and deep learning for identification of trapped insects, and the integration of DNA metabarcoding for cross-validation, facilitating construction of ecological networks. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My co-authors and I propose the need for year-round monitoring of biocontrol interactions to enhance our understanding of predator-pest dynamics, but this will demand various methodological innovations and considerations, for which we provide guidance. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

@danielleybourne.bsky.social et al. discuss the significant advances that artificial intelligence brings to insect biomonitoring, particularly in providing decision support systems to help farmers identify pests and virus vectors, but also the challenges to overcome. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

In an editorial, we summarise the articles within the special issue and provide a synthesis on the overarching themes and concepts, which include the various emerging technologies underpinning significant advances, alongside some conceptual changes in how and when we monitor. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today! 🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲 Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...

Great to see the Special Issue on Advances in Insect Biomonitoring led by @jordancuff.bsky.social now in print in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology 🧪 #biodiversity #monitoring #AI #biocontrol #metabarcoding #camera #trapping #disease #surveillance #migration

Species of beetles living in dead oak wood are influenced by degree of wood decay (from early to well decayed) in winter: new paper in @royentsoc.bsky.social Agricultural and Forest Entomology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #saproxylic #insects #Coleoptera #biodiversity 🧪

Many thanks to all the authors (some pictured here) who published in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology this year, and the many reviewers who supported @jordancuff.bsky.social, myself and the other editors: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1461... #insects 🧪

The @royentsoc.bsky.social has just announced the winners of the new ECR awards for best papers in 2022 and 2023: the Agricultural and Forest Entomology award for 2022 goes to Kae Natsume for paper which shows how ants are underappreciated pollinators of crops www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪

Quantifying the foliage consumption of leaf-cutter ants, one of the most important insects pests in the Neotropics: New research in Agricultural and Forest Entomology from Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Privilege to know brings responsibility to act? How to define your power position - Sander Jacobs, last speaker at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #sciencepolicy

Considerations of time, bias and expertise in knowledge synthesis - Nils Bunnefeld from the Eklipse initiative at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #policy #ecosystemservices #AlternetSummerSchool

Social-ecological transformations: Power and equity in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru - Bruno Locatelli at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES #waterregulation #AlternetSummerSchool

Art and nature - Steve Redpath back at the Alternet Summer School after many years #biodiversity #nature #drawing #landscapes stephenmredpath.com

From conflict to transformation? Lou Lécuyer CESAB @FRBiodiv at Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #power #jaguar #humanwildlifeconflict

Can we reverse the decline of Earth’s habitability? Wolfgang Cramer IMBE at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes #ipcc #climatechange #sustainability

Communication Strategies for Success in biodiversity - Julie de Bouville, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes

The end of (big) cities? Transforming rural areas and food systems to conserve biodiversity - Nicolas Dendoncker, Alternet Summer School #farming #transitions #nature #alternetsummerschool

Innovative futures thinking and decolonial praxis, participatory futures methodologies and games - Laura Pereira, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature

Negotiating multifunctional landscapes: Where values and needs clash? Francis Turkelboom, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #landuse #conflict #stakeholder #engagement

Towards a social-ecological system thinking - Emilie Crouzat at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES

Wine, biodiversity and climate change Sebastian Candiago at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices

Peter Bridgewater opens this year Alternet Summer School: Transformative Change: Much ado about nothing, A midsummer nights dream or All's well that ends well?

Day 1 of the 18th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq - Biodiversity and society: perspectives on science and policy - waiting for the students to arrive

Deadline 25th April - Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - experience a unique learning environment at this year's Alternet_Europe summer school, supported by Biodiversa+ in the village of Peyresq, France. Apply: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - join this year's Alternet summer school, supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social - and join a network for life. Applications open until 25th April alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - join this year's @Alternet_Europe summer school, supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social, in the wonderful village of Peyresq, Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France. Applications open until 25th April alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

Favourite #bluebugs from last year, courtesy of Floyd Schockley from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History #bluemonday

Today: seminar on the science-policy interface in practice organised by INRAE, Alternet_Europe and the Partnership for European Environmental Research - The impacts of plant protection products on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Register here: alterneteurope.eu/inrae-spi-se...

Happy New Year, particularly to the entomologists moving here, and many thanks to my editorial colleagues in Agricultural and Forest Entomology, reviewers and authors over the last year (some pictured here) #insect #science resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...

Nacreous clouds visible this afternoon west of Aberdeen

Implications of climate change and land abandonment on dead-wood beetles: a treeline study on saproxylic Coleoptera resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The use of semiochemicals in traps for attracting and repelling invasive species – research on non-native ambrosia beetle species in ʻōhiʻa (Metrosideros polymorpha) forests in Hawaiʻi: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Photo from Kylle Roy @usda.bsky.social #entomology #insects

Quantifying the potential for spread of an invasive insect by wind and phoretic dispersal by vectors such as birds & mammals - new research on crapemyrtle bark scale, an insect with females that lack wings: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Photo from author Erika Wright

Biodiversity and pandemics: interdisciplinary research and action priorities - latest report from an Eklipse expert working group eklipse.eu/wp-content/u... #covid

Diversity of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) within commercial Sitka spruce plantation forests in Wales – 60 species recorded, including potential future pests: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #insects #entomology

Wrong landings on non-hosts by the ambrosia beetle Platypus quercivorus , a vector of a pathogenic fungus that causes Japanese oak wilt: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #insects #entomology Photo from Michimasa Yamasaki