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!

FERG News September 2025 Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! Alongside all of the various field experiments well under way, we’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new article…

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 🐝🌳

Networking Nutrients: Nutrients as a Driver of Invertebrate Interactions YouTube video by Biological Recording Company

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

Schematic of the structure of the paper. We looked at dietary differences between ages and sexes, seasons and habitat types. We looked at the identity of prey in the diet and the number of dietary items.

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

Cossid moth imago appearance (a–d) and various life stages of Cossus (e–g). (a) Acossus terebra (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775); (b) Zeuzera pyrina; (C) Xyleutes ceramica; (d) Cossus cossus; (e) lateral side of a larva; (f) dorsal side of a larva; (g) a pupa. Photo (E) taken by O. Machač, photo (g) by M. Zúbrik, other photos taken by Z. Laštůvka.

#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

FERG News June 2025 It’s been another busy month, with plenty of fieldwork underway, some new faces and some nice new outputs! Read below for all of the recent updates, some other things we’d like to share…

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!

Spider Spies Welcome to Spider Spies! Flower crab spiders (Misumena vatia) love to live in flower verges, which are great for pollinators, biodiversity buffer zones and natural pest control. We want to find out…

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!

Mia and Ben with one of the posts

One of the fully set up posts

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

Figure 1 of: Flea beetles in spring oilseed rape differ in phenology and habitat choices for reproduction and overwintering—Implications for pest management Phyllotreta undulata feeding on spring oilseed rape seedling in spring (a), emergence trap collecting emerging flea beetle assemblages in a spring oilseed rape field in summer (b) and emergence traps collecting flea beetle assemblages emerging from overwintering in the adjacent grassy field margin in the following spring (c). Pictures: Ola Lundin.

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

Cover image of: Agricultural and Forest Entomology Volume 27, Issue 2

📢#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

Alternet summer school students on field trip at Lac d'Allos, the lake and partly tree-covered mountains in the background.

"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

Host specificity and host stage preference of Psyllaephagus species (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) towards invasive eucalypt psyllids (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) Invasive eucalypt psyllids pose a threat to the long-term production of eucalypts worldwide. In order to reduce their economic impact, classical biological control using Psyllaephagus species has be...

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!

Thanks so much, Kathy! We have some really exciting soil work just starting up - it's an exciting world to explore!

Welcome to Bluesky, Broghan! 😃🚁🌳