www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social

#DNAbarcoding has been an amazing tool to help discover and delineate parasitic wasps. Here is another example!

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt Combined heat & #drought affect #abundance, #composition & #diversity of subalpine surface-active soil #arthropod communities doi.org/10.1111/een.70015 #ChangingClimate @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

ping @olliloukola.bsky.social

Mosquitoes are the messengers that bring the news of climate change to your door via their infectious diseases.

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Important www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🐜 Insects in trouble at high altitudes A 20-year study in a pristine Colorado meadow found flying insects dropped 72%, linked to warmer summers and rising night temperatures. Even untouched ecosystems are vulnerable. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #SciComm #Ecology 🧪

"The unknown is made up of small organisms, such as insects, mites, and crustaceans. These species are the nuts and bolts of ecosystems. And most of them have yet to be identified." www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Small article out on projecting European potential natural vegetation types. Code and data available, and maybe useful for some :) doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

First paper out from PhD student Emma Kärrnäs (not on Bluesky) on DNA barcodes revealing a lot of undescribed diversity in eulophid parasitic wasps in Sweden! Stay tuned for what whole genome sequences say about the same specimens in the near future! doi.org/10.3897/asp....

Bee news! 🐝🐝🐝 Wild bees strategically visit different flowers to balance their intake of protein, fat & carbohydrates. Ecologists have observed wild bumblebees in the Colorado Rockies over 8 years to develop a comprehensive nutritional map. 🧪🌼🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📰Published📰Diet for survival: testing the resource allocation hypothesis in an aposematic moth🦋 buff.ly/CbuRKZN 🧪🌍

A really great and successful cooperation with @eurocc-austria.at, , Blühendes Österreich - BILLA gemeinnützige Privatstiftung, and @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy

@mahtabyazdanian.bsky.social defending her thesis on "Moth abundance changes and consequent bottom-up effects on birds in boreal forests". I'm proud to have mentored such a bright new PhD.

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt #Culicoides species involved in the #BTV-3 epidemic, the Netherlands, 2023–2024 doi.org/10.1111/mve.70007 #Midges #InsectVectors #InsectBorneDiseases #BluetongueVirus @wiley.com

Reskeet please. As the fall semester is upon us I'm reposting this. Looking for 1-2 students (US based only). The lab is open to interests in ecology, evolution, systematics, and taxonomy of mosquitoes. Work could take place in Puerto Rico, around the Gulf Coast, or could even involved museum work.

New paper in @pnas.org — and this is my favourite one out of my PhD thesis! Field transplants of wall brown butterflies show life history evolution during climate change-driven range expansion, BUT non-evolving winter tolerance still sets the range limit.🧵1/12. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Päivän sompasammalet.

It's the end-permian mass extinction again.

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An amazing review of the current state of knowledge of the systematics and classification of themoth family Erebidae, the most diverse family of Lepidoptera! This is a really necessary compilation of available information. 🥳 🙌 academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

A good discussion on interacting effects changes in seasonality can have on communities.

Bird nesting in the Cretaceous! This is the illustration I did for a new paper by Lauren Wilson and colleagues that is published TODAY in Science The new paper describes an assemblage of fossils that includes both chicks and adults from multiple species of Late Cretaceous birds! #paleoart #birds

Read how the geographic distributions of dinosaurs changed through time, from their origins through to their final extinction, in ‘A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: State of the art and prospectus’: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #FossilFriday

Genetic analysis of a (small) group of bedbugs showed their history was entwined with the human story, with the blood-sucking parasites spreading & thriving as humans crammed together in large settlements. 🧪🪲🛏️😬 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#aurorainterreg projektista me #insectsofthenorth julkaistiin tänään lehdistötiedote ja kyllähän hyttyset kiinnostavat. Lähitulevaisuudessa pystymme antamaan täsmällisempiä hyttysennusteita.

✨Bumble bee probability of occurrence responds to interactions between local and landscape land use, climatic niche properties and climate change🐝New paper out, led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social, & with @jetkerr.bsky.social & Peter Soroye (the result of some fantastic trips across the Atlantic 🇨🇦) 🌎 🧪 🌐

Interesting work simulating spruce budworm outbreaks, exploring how different suppression tactics affect additive mortality and how this concept can be implemented in outbreak suppression. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AnnalsAppliedBiology

High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->

Homem-de-Carvalho et al. A review and meta-analysis of host-plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision-making nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

200-years of dinosaur #palaeontology have shed new light on the macroecological patterns of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Read ‘The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs’ in #BiologyLetters: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #FossilFriday #palaeoecology

Male-killing! feminization! parthenogenesis induction! cytoplasmic incompatibility! etc.Wolbachia & its friends do all sorts of reproductive manipulations. F Brenninger, @romanzug.bsky.social & I ploughed through existing equations for their spread... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024

What a nice graphical abstract.

Our new #DrForest paper has found canopy density & tree species diversity have varying impacts on health & wellbeing 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #foresthealth #biodiversity #urbanforests #forestmanagement #environmentalhealth #urbanplanning #research #Sustainability

Caterpillars are well adapted to their native local host trees, less so to non-native congeners or ornamentals esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Nice bear?!

Defining the decline: a glossary relevant to insect decline Open Access academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Buckle up buttercups...

🐜 Recent study shows for the first time that the metabolic scaling of active ant colonies varies as a function of trophic level & worker polymorphism. Thus, the ecological divergence of metabolic scaling seen in unitary organisms occurs across levels of biological organisation👇

The May issue of JEB is now online! Read it here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/5 📸 Coenonympha arcania: part of an intriguing species complex in which two hybrid species have inherited most of their genome from one parent species but prefer mating with the other! Photo Credit - Riccardo Poloni

Great to see @charles-cunningham.bsky.social's paper out on the impacts of woodland connectivity on the presence of woodland species in the UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Although ecologists talk about connectivity being important to maintain, the evidence that this is true is weak. 1/

Ötökkäakatemia edustettuna HY:n Tiedekulman ja YLE:n Luonto-Suomen Pörriäisillassa - tulkaapa kuulolle! www.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulm... #pölyttäjäpäivä #mehiläispäivä #tiedekulma

Assessing the population genetic structure and demographic history of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis at island and mainland populations in Uganda: Implications for testing novel malaria vector control approaches. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654785v1

Postdoctoral position offer in sedaDNA in our team to work on insect outbreaks in forests!! 🌲🐛🧬 Please Repost!

🏔 species redistribution We found limited evidence, so far, for #mountaintop #extinction, lowland #biotic #attrition & #range-shifts gaps despite climate-driven upslope range shifts 🌡📈 Biotic homogenization on its way along mountain slopes 🗻🏔⛰️ 🧪🌐🌍🏔🌳🌲🦋🦎🐦🦔 @science.org shorturl.at/Fdrlo

A new #RESSystematicEnt article presents the phylogeny & evolution of the family #Eurytomidae #(Hymenoptera: #Chalcidoidea) based on #UltraconservedElements Secondary phytophagy evolved independently at least 7 times🔽 doi.org/10.1111/syen.12682 @gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social

Hyvä hanke. Metsätiaisia voidaan tukea täsmällisin toimin, jotka eivät lainkaan haittaa metsien muuta käyttöä. Hyvä askel myös kohti laajempaa toimintaa monikäyttö- ja liiketalousmetsien monimuotoisuuden lisäämiseksi.