Quelle belle idée pour mettre en valeur la biodiversité urbaine!

Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B...

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L’observation des oiseaux modifie le cerveau

Certaines régions du cerveau des ornithologues amateurs présentent une structure et une organisation plus denses.

Près de 2000 professionnelles et professionnels de la Ville de #Montréal en grève aujourd'hui pour faire accélérer les négociations pour notre convention collective échue depuis 2023 ! 🤩🫶✊️ #sppmm

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Nouvelle bière préférée ! (En plus elle est bonne)

A black katydid in lateral view resembling a pompilif wasp

Or these cute katydids of the genus Aganacris. The movements, antennae, and overall coloration are really convincing too.
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ESA Call for Papers The Entomological Society of America has a rich history of publishing curated collections across the journals, serving the professional and scie

Share with all mosquito researchers. 🧪🦟
I'm co-organizing a special issue in the Journal of Medical Entomology on systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of mosquitoes. See details in the link. Happy to answer questions. Proposal Deadline 15 April 2026.

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L’amiral blanc, futur insecte emblématique du Québec, se rapproche du fil d’arrivée Le public s’était prononcé pour son inscription officielle en 1998.

Pour que l'emblème devienne officiel, le projet de loi doit être adopté. Cette fois, c'est la bonne?

Pour commenter le projet de loi 👉www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-parlementaire...

L’amiral blanc, futur insecte emblématique du Québec, se rapproche du fil d’arrivée Le public s’était prononcé pour son inscription officielle en 1998.

Pour que l'emblème devienne officiel, le projet de loi doit être adopté. Cette fois, c'est la bonne?

Pour commenter le projet de loi 👉 www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...

À quand un insecte emblème officiel pour le Québec? Espace pour la vie s'engage à mieux faire connaître et protéger la biodiversité de notre planète. Ensemble, repensons le lien qui nous unit à la nature et cultivons une nouvelle façon de vivre.

Mardi, avec la proposition de l'adoption du principe du projet de loi n° 496, un nouveau pas à été franchi dans le dossier de l'insecte emblème du Québec, une démarche initiée il y a près de 30 ans par la SEQ et l'Insectarium !
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Québec Science dévoile les 10 #découvertes de l'année 2025! Ce palmarès annuel, qui en est à sa 33e édition, met en lumière l'excellence de la recherche scientifique québécoise. Découvrez les 10 découvertes et votez pour votre préférée!
https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/decouvertes2025/

Whirligig Beetles out for a whirl this afternoon.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife

Des centaines d’ornithologues convergent vers Montréal pour un rare oiseau venu d’Europe Un rouge-gorge familier a été observé pour la première fois au Canada et il suscite un véritable engouement.

Une autre surprise ornithologique dans l'est de Montréal !
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The de-skilled leading the unskilled is not what academia should be about.

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...

Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.

Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.

Visite rare d’un grand-duc au Jardin botanique de Montréal «Le Devoir» a pu observer et photographier cet imposant rapace nocturne alors qu’il se reposait au sommet d’un arbre.

De la grande visite au Jardin botanique de #Montréal @espacepourlavie.bsky.social
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screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors synthesize bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across three continents, finding that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats both negatively affected wil...

Our new paper, co-authored by Riho and Péter, titled "Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields", is published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The study emphasizes the need to reduce pesticide impacts and restore habitats for promoting wild bees. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Oui! Elle a filmé les insectes de l'insectarium la nuit

Très belle finale de la résidence d'artiste à l'#Insectarium de Caroline Hayeur projetée à la Société des arts technologiques #SAT @espacepourlavie.bsky.social #biophilie

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Was awesome to have you! The day passed so fast! 💚

Can’t wait to get all the amazing data your team is generating out! 👏

Photo of three intricately carved jack-o'-lanterns. The legs of the arachnid at left are nearly radially symmetric; the arachnid in the middle has long forelegs and bright bands across its body; the insect at right has long, segmented antennae and converging arcs (barely visible from this angle) at the back. The background is leaf-covered lawn, very dark.

I'm pretty much ready for #Halloween.
L to R: whirligig mite (Anystis sp.), another prostig mite (family Rhagidiidae), and Western earwig (Forficula dentata). The pièce de résistance, a long-jawed orbweaver jack-o'-lantern (not shown), was completed this afternoon.
#arachtober 🐡

📢 On recrute! 📢 Un projet de doc ou de maîtrise vraiment trippant pour quelqu'un qui aime les insectes 🦋 🐝 et le plein air ⛰️ . Avec Maxim Larrivée à l'#Insectarium Espace pour la vie et Marc Bélisle à l'Université de Sherbrooke
Détails ci-dessous 👇

A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.

Isopods!! 🧡

GM will introduce eyes-off driving in 2028 | CNN Business General Motors, the 100-year-old car company, plans to offer Americans hands-free driving and the freedom to watch a movie on the go.

“Imagine you step into your vehicle, you push a button, and it drives you to the office. You catch up on work, send emails, or watch an episode of your favorite show,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.

This exists, it's called a bus

www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

Les insectes nocturnes vous intéressent? Venez à ma conférence mercredi le 15 octobre à la maison de la culture #MHM! C'est gratuit, mais il faut réserver sa place ici 👉https://lepointdevente.com/billets/a1n251015001 @espacepourlavie.bsky.social

Help me, science Bluesky! Anyone know any fish biologists working on hybridized trout and other exotic and rare trout / salmonid subspecies? #biology #marinebiology #fishbiology