Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.

Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
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Intact #tropical #forests 🌴🌴 can buffer hot and dry extremes 🌞 by >6°C. When do recovering #secondary forests recover this capability?
New paper Felicity Newell et al. in Agricult Forest Meteorol
#forestecol #restoration #climate @jocotoco.bsky.social
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News Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself, according to new research.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Little brown weevil with a black snoot nearly as long as its body, poking into a green acorn

Acorn weevils are back 🤎

Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

Having a great time at the #gfoe2025 conference in Würzburg. Inspiring talks and great opportunities for scientific exchange 😊 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @reassemblynet.bsky.social @melvinopolka.bsky.social

Several dozen flies on a leaf. They have red eyes on the ends of long stalks protruding from their heads.

In India, abhiapc saw this group of Teleopsis sykesii stalk-eyed flies and it's our more-than-#TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day!

More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes
Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees.
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A spindly legged white assassin bug nymph emerges from a brown egg case on a green leaf.

When you’re willing to move slowly through the world, you’ll find amazing things. I call this Birth of an Assassin. #bugsky

Macro photograph of two small, light brown ants sitting in a large, swollen green cup on a tree leaf.

Linepithema tsachila ants drink from an Inga nectary in Ecuador. I described and named this species with funding from the National Science Foundation. #NSF #Ants #Science

Am 23. #Hexapodezember zeigen wir euch die Ameisen-Sichelwanze. Mit ihrer Ameisen-Taille gerät die Larve der Wanze bei Bestimmungsversuchen leicht einmal in die „falsche Schublade“. Die #RoteListe verzeichnet sie als ungefährdet.

Mehr dazu ➡️ www.rote-liste-zentrum.de/de/Mit-Ameis...

A quick insect pinning tutorial featuring Brachyponera (needle ants)! (Also quickly saving/sharing here in case we lose TikTok) #entomology

The first chapter of my PhD🎉 Super thrilled about this! 🐆

Hey science writers! As you prep your annual list of coolest species described in the past year, I humbly suggest you highlight the Dragon Ball pill millipede! Discovered by a team of Thai scientists, no parachute science here! Look at these beauties!

a picture winged fly specimen that has shiny fake eyes on the back of its thorax and markings on its wings that look like spider legs. it's a convincing mimic

a picture winged fly specimen that has shiny fake eyes on the back of its thorax and markings on its wings that look like spider legs. it's a convincing mimic

At least some are patterned to mimic jumping spiders, viewed from behind - common in many Tephritoidea (see Ulidiidae below). Many also use their wings to signal to mates, so they may function to distinguish species. Otherwise?????

Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us:
Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!!
#Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery
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The sounds of #forest loss: how the #cicada communities’ song patterns change when forests are converted and isolated. New open access paper 🇪🇨 🌴
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