Freshwater monitoring reveals unknown midge diversity — Tjóðsavnið Freshwater monitoring has added several new records of non-biting midges (Chironomidae) to the Faroese checklist. At least seven new species records have been made based on pupal exuviae collected fro...

I just love chironomid pupal exuviae! So much fun to find new species to add to the Faroese checklist.
#Tjóðsavnið #Biodiversity #Monitoring #Chironomidae

Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

The collections at @nhm-london.bsky.social are full of glorious specimens esp the Flies. But they also come with lots of extra information

Roger Crosskey wrote down his feelings 50 years ago about this species complex - his frustration evident

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

The shiny metallic blue beetle Necrobia rufipes was one of the many new insect records for the Faroes in 2025.
#BlueBugs
#Tjóðsavnið
#Coleoptera

Island Biology 2026 Why Japan?

Island Biology 2026 Conference
2–6 Nov. 2026
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#IB2026

We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website!
2–6 Nov. 2026
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Agnes Kreiling giving a presentation

Today, at the Changing Currents conference organised by Granskingarráðið, @agneskreiling.bsky.social presented three projects which were centered around Koltur Research Station: the Baseline Project (www.tjodsavnid.fo/natturan-i-k...) the terrestrial ecosystem monitoring project and #LIFEPLAN).

Program cover for the 2025 Entomological Collections Network meeting, feature a beautifully fluffy Pleocoma specimen. Meeting taking place November 8-9, in Portland, Oregon.

Just ONE WEEK until #ECN2025! 🪲

Head to the website to check out the full program:
ecnweb.net/welcome/meet...

This year’s program cover features a beautiful Rain beetle (Pleocoma sp.). Photograph courtesy of @ageofarthropods.bsky.social & the Purdue Entomological Research Collection.

I will be talking about our projects at #Koltur Research Station on 4th of December in Copenhagen. The one-day conference is free of charge. More information and registration here: www.gransking.fo/en/resources...

The nightlife here in France is quite something!

#entomology (since there is a Lepidoptera flying by?)
#trailcam #cameratrap #wildboar
@agneskreiling.bsky.social

A badger checking out our #cameratrap in Southern France.

Hey, could you add me and @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social? We are managing the insect collection at the Faroe Islands National Museum.

New beetle record for Europe: Sthereus ptinoides. Identified based on specimens in the entomological collection at #Tjóðsavnið.
Read the story of the discovery here: ojs.setur.fo/index.php/fr...
@leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social
Photo: Björn Hjaltason

First (but hopefully not last) scientific publication on our species inventory on #Koltur came out today. Big thanks to all our collaborators! Publicly available under: ojs.setur.fo/index.php/fr...

#Tjóðsavnið #Biodiversity #Monitoring
@leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @kolbrunih.bsky.social

Figure 1.Six categories of dorsal pattern on elytra of Pachyrhynchus.

#LiteratureNotice Chen et al. Regional selection pressure and heterogeneous transitions shape diverse colour pattern in Pachyrhynchus weevils ( #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) Open Access doi.org/10.1093/zool... #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils #Mimicry

Always an adventure visiting our more inaccessible monitoring plots on the Northern side of #Koltur.

#TodaysOffice #Tjóðsavnið @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social

Elodes pseudominuta is one of the species which is more common on #Koltur than expected. We find it during July among mosses in the vicinity of small streams.

#Tjóðsavnið #Coleoptera

Me and my colleagues at #Tjóðsavnið have studied the island #Koltur since 2019. Our species checklist is now publicly available on @gbif.org. And the first publication is on the way...

www.gbif.org/dataset/a6fa...

@leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @kolbrunih.bsky.social

Here are two spreads to tempt you from the Dung Flies Scathophagidae pages of our #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z (maps to be done) for publication this autumn. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social
@tverc1.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Cutest field assistant we ever had.

#Tjóðsavnið #monitoring #EcologistFamily @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social

Me and @agneskreiling.bsky.social have seen a lot of cool species while on vacation in #Spain: #chamalaeon, #flamingo, #octopus and a huge #robberfly.

It has been a treat visiting @Theresahenke.bsky.social and hear about her work on #bioinvasions.

Flower visitation observations in sunny weather! Lots of #Diptera on Caltha palustris outside my office.

#Tjóðsavnið #monitoring

We choose the worst possible day to start #fieldwork for lake #monitoring - cold wind, sleet, snow and rain... but nevertheless plenty of #Chironomidae pupal exuviae around!

#Tjóðsavnið @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social

The New Zealand flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus) has decimated #Earthworm populations in the #Faroes. It probably was introduced by people who were importing non-native trees in the 1980'ies.
This one I found in our garden, close to our compost heap where there are no Earthworms.
#ias

Fabrizio holding out a plant so that listening students can understand its features. Three students stand to the side, listening.

The top of a limestone platform in the garrigue. The oak trees are bare of leaves, and mosses and low-lying plants cover the limestone with green foliage.

Students leaning down to take photos of orchids. The orchids are not yet open, but have pointed, dark flower buds.

A dung beetle, 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪, rolling a ball of dung.

Day 2 with Neuchâtel and we’ve been exploring the garrigue. This is a Mediterranean scrubland habitat based on limestone soils. We found specialist plants, including orchids. Although small, one of our highlights was finding the dung beetle 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 rolling its balls of dung.

New Chironomidae record for the Faroes: Metriocnemus carmencitabertarum. Found as pupal exuviae in a rainwater-filled bassin in the garden of my in-laws.
www.tjodsavnid.fo/news-in-engl...

now with shading

long distance relationship

Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of damp ...

The concept of the “extinction of experience” has been used to describe the dwindling human connection with nature, often applied to the general public.

But ecologists themselves are not immune. Across universities and research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat.

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Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often.

Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies

Setting up this year's #LIFEPLAN site, on #Koltur.

This Carabus hispanus was the entomological highlight during our trip to southern France in 2024 - perfect for #BlueMonday!

#BlueBugs @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social