Thanks, Josie, for running such a great workshop! So many great discussions and exciting things to come! 🐟🕸️🏞️

We've really enjoyed having @maximuminsect.bsky.social join us for #EcoNet2025, #Ento25 and for a joint group meeting with @nclneg.bsky.social! See you soon, Max!

I had a great time talking to #Ento25 about peer review! We even had them peer reviewing some mock papers and they all did exceptionally well!

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! We’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new articles and protocols and more! 🏞️📃🧪 Check out our latest news post and subscribe on our homepage for email updates! foragingecology.com/2025/09/04/f...

What a buzzing time at #EcoNet2025! Was thrilled to get to share some of my PhD work and to meet so many lovely researchers! Thanks so much to all the organizers. @foragingecology.bsky.social with a strong showing and a prize winning talk by @beatricedale.bsky.social 🐝🌳

Fascinating talk by @jordancuff.bsky.social on not only *what* spiders eat but also *why*: youtu.be/rCmiS4SDe7w?... #Arachnids #Spiders #video

New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

We’ve just published a new blog: Networking Nutrients. It explores how nutrients drive invertebrate interactions above and below ground, and why this matters for everything from biodiversity to pest control. Find out more: biologicalrecording.co.uk/2025/08/19/n... @jordancuff.bsky.social

Last chance to come along to a fabulous conference right here in Newcastle!

Are nutrients this missing link driving ecological interactions between invertebrates? New research suggests so. Want to learn more? Join Dr @jordancuff.bsky.social for a FREE entoLIVE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1350222234... #Insects #Nutrients 🧪 🌍 @amentsoc.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Aquatic biological invasions exacerbate nutritional and health inequities" http://dlvr.it/TM5XMT @josiesouth.bsky.social ‪@jordancuff.bsky.social Luca Sabini, Zarah Pattison @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

Last drone flights of my PhD! ✨ The weather at the Hepple Estate was absolutely perfect until the last four lines when a thunderstorm started to roll in… can’t beat the British weather 🤣. Thanks so much to @jordancuff.bsky.social for bringing himself and his positive attitude to uplift the day!

A new #RESAgForestEnt article models the potential distribution of the #invasive poplar #LaceBug Monosteira unicostata & its capacity to adapt to novel environments Read the article🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12691 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

#RESAgForestEnt has a new review article on #CossidMoths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) as #pests of woody plants🌳 Learn about their characteristics, diversity & bionomy & the damage they cause #OpenAccess🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12689 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @wiley.com

EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e... PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.

Come and do some fieldwork with me! #entomology #spiders #arachnology #womeninstem #fieldwork

What's going on in FERG?! Find out in our monthly news post! foragingecology.com/2025/06/08/f... Some incredible updates and photos from the group, including new papers, fieldwork antics and outreach programmes! There's even a foraging logic puzzle to have a go at.

🚨WHERE ARE THE CRAB SPIDERS?🚨 If you spot any crab spiders on flowers, help out @envirosyment.bsky.social by sending in photos and, even better, live spiders! This will help inform her important research on the weird and wonderful interactions between invertebrate predators and plants!

Further information about the scheme can be found here foragingecology.com/spider-spies/ along with links to our recording form. Please feel free to ask me any questions about the scheme, the spiders or the work I'm doing with them!

We had a great time last week putting up experimental lamp posts at one of the university's experimental farms for @miacroftento.bsky.social's upcoming artificial light experiments! We even had a mining bee digging its hole near ours - perhaps setting up their own lamp posts! 💡🐝

The woodpasture at Hepple Wilds really was showing off its early spring best for laser scanning! Can’t wait to return with @jordancuff.bsky.social in the summer for a final set of 🌳🕷️🪻data for my PhD. So excited for the collaboration as part of my work with @foragingecology.bsky.social

The Editors' Choice in our new #RESAgForestEnt Vol. 27 Issue 2 shows #FleaBeetles in spring #OilseedRape differ in #phenology & #habitat choices for reproduction & #overwintering🪲 See the #PestManagement implications🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12659 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social

📢#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

Also found some great carabid #beetles up here, although this one was not so happy and did try to make a meal out of my finger 🪲 Fairly certain this is a pterostichus but not sure on the species so will be sending over to @chrisfoster.bsky.social and the recording scheme

"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

A new #RESAgForestEnt paper explores host specificity & stage preference of Psyllaephagus species (#Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) to invasive eucalypt #psyllids (#Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) #OpenAccess🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12679 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

We're really excited about these new article types! Share your perspectives on the impact of policy on insects in agriculture and forestry! 📃🐝🐛 Publish new methods and applications of methods from other fields! 🧪🪲💻 Check out the updated guidelines and keep eyes peeled for more updates to come!

Welcome to Bluesky, Broghan! 😃🚁🌳

Here is what cabbage maggot eggs look like at 10X and 20X

Hello all ☺️ I start new accounts with a quote that’s meaningful to me: “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used–not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.” - Elizabeth Gaskell #ethics

Will, @envirosyment.bsky.social and @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social are having a great time at the @royentsoc.bsky.social #SF25 this week! Be sure to say hello if you're there! 🪱🕷️🐝 #StudentForum2025Squad

It is truly an honour to be shortlisted for the Elton Prize! Reflecting on this paper for the blog was really nice - we had such a great time writing it and it's driving so much of what we're doing in @foragingecology.bsky.social! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

A new #RESAgForestEnt article reveals the complex population genetic structure of the #BarkBeetle predator Thanasimus formicarius (#Coleoptera: #Cleridae) across its European range #OpenAccess🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12677 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

New research published in #RESAgForestEnt investigates the ability of #lacewing larvae to predate two pest #caterpillars in relation to the prey defensive behaviour & body size See the article🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12673 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

A new article in #RESAgForestEnt looks at the abundance & size of #FireAnt nests in crops under different agricultural management systems & landscape compositions See the results🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12675 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social @wiley.com

Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.

A new #RESAgForestEnt article gives a temporal snapshot of #ParasitoidWasp communities on three flowering plant species & implications for rosy apple #aphid regulation🍎 Read the article 🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12674 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

I have ticked something very special off my bucket list… I visited the one of Monarch butterfly overwintering sites, in Mexico! It was the most MAGICAL things I’ve ever witnessed. 🥹🦋

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

An awesome evening for the launch of the new Adder Pilsner label from Allendale Brewery. Beer and adder talks (the work going on in the North Pennines). What is not to like?! Lucy and Samuel did a fantastic job presenting the work we have been doing on Conservation Genomics of adders in the region.

Our latest publication in #RESAgForestEnt is a review of the American cocoa pod borer, Carmenta foraseminis, an emerging #pest of cocoa🍫🐛 See the #OpenAccess article now🔽 buff.ly/QJmjJJY @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

A new paper in #RESAgForestEnt explores density-dependent efficiency in emerald ash borer sampling schemes, looking at spatial distribution, sampling efficiency & Taylor's power law See the results🔽 buff.ly/LANewhO @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

Our latest article in #RESEcolEnt reports on changes in a #bumblebee #alpine #pollinator network over 40 years 🐝🌼 Read the article now🔽 buff.ly/srBYHrM @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @mattgreenwell.bsky.social @wiley.com

A new article in #RESAgForestEnt presents quality traits of the lady beetle #Eriopis connexa (Germar) resistant to #pyrethroids over 130 generations of rearing 🐞 buff.ly/IfD3Tw2 @wiley.com @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

If you want a quick summary of all of the incredible research in the latest Agricultural and Forest Entomology issue, a special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring, check out my recent thread: bsky.app/profile/jord...

Great @sciencesncl.bsky.social Ecosystems PGR Seminar from our very own Will Dawson today about his PhD work using ecoacoustics and metagenomics to construct soil trophic networks! 🔊🪱🧬

Great journal club today with friends from @nclneg.bsky.social! We talked about this excellent paper from Heger et al. in the latest issue of @oikosjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/oik.... A great discussion on the importance of philosophy in ecology and how it informs and shapes our work!

Do spiders select prey based on its nutrient content? This is challenging to study outside the lab - but evidence from the field in our new @oikosjournal.bsky.social paper led by @jordancuff.bsky.social supports the idea 🧪🌍 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to the incredible women I work with in @foragingecology.bsky.social and beyond! 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍🎨