🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

The Belgian Wildlife Disease Society (#BWDS) study day was once again both educational and enjoyable!
This year’s edition took us to @inbo.be (Research Institute for Nature and Forest - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek) and VOC ‘SOS Wilde Dieren VZW’ in Geraardsbergen.

Bedankt Jane, om mijn grote voorbeeld te zijn, en mijn biologiecarrière mee vorm te geven.
Je bent de sterkste en meest inspirerende vrouw die ik ken. Je volgende quote is de rode draad in mijn leven: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make” ❤️

Great day at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences during #taxonomyrecognitionday

🕵️ Today I enjoyed networking with old and new colleague taxonomists!

🦕 And I had the privilage to visit the very interesting paleontology lab!

🔬 #Taxonomy matters!

#NameItToSaveIt #biodiversity #TETTRIsEU

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Use #nameittosaveit to raise awareness about #taxonomy to a new level:
📷 Picture your favourite animal or plant 🐯🍀🍄
🔤 Give it the correct taxonomic name
🤳 Share it on social media with the #NameItToSaveIt hashtag
... And remember: May 23 is Taxonomy Recognition Day!
tettris.eu/trd/
#tettriseu

Vlaanderen lanceert campagne tegen tijgermug: "Controleer wekelijks op stilstaand water in je tuin" | VRT NWS: nieuws Nu het muggenseizoen begonnen is, lanceert het Vlaamse departement Zorg een campagne om de verspreiding van de tijgermug tegen te gaan. Ze vragen mensen om te melden wanneer ze het beestje tegenkomen,...

Het tijgermugseizoen is begonnen! Verwijder broedplaatsen 🪣 en meld tijgermuggen 🦟 is de boodschap. 👇 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Vlaanderen roept op tot actie: ‘Leg de tijgermug droog’ De tijgermug steekt niet alleen harder dan een gewone mug, ze kan vooral ook virussen overbrengen. Daarom lanceert Vlaanderen een campagne om de verspreiding ervan tegen te gaan. ‘Alle beetjes helpen...

Vlaanderen roept op tot actie: ‘Leg de tijgermug droog’

🚇 New Research Uncovers the Ancient Origins of the "London Underground Mosquito"

🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in Egypt.

Some of our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) 🦟 starring in an international study picked up by Nature Magazine!
Proud to be part of this study! #MosquitoEvolution

📑 Preprint can be found here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Didier Verloo (EFSA)

Prof. Dr. Sophie Vanwambeke (UCLouvain)

Prof. Dr. Dolores Gavier-Widén (Swedish Veterinary Agency)

Second day of #BeOH with talks e.g. on the role of AI in advancing #OneHealth, the use of land systems in #OneHealth and the importance of wildlife disease surveillance. Ending with identifying gaps in policy and research of several OH aspects. @sciensano.bsky.social
@belgianbiodiversityplatform

Dr. Jakob Zinstagg (Swiss TPH)

Stéphane Otrowski (Wildlife Conservation Society, New York)

Justine Guiny (TRAFFIC)

Learning about the complexity of #OneHealth and the importance of integrating communities. First day of #BeOH 🦠 🐗🧍🐄@sciensano.bsky.social #Belgianbiodiversityplatform

⏳ Only 2 days left! The abstract submission deadline for the XII International European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA) Conference is just around the corner—22/1. 🚨 Let’s take action together - Register today and be part of the change! 🦟 www.emca2025.eu @emca.bsky.social