I cannot recommend this summer school highly enough. Gorgeous mountain village-setting, wine, food, cheese, more wine, silly games, great field excursions and dancing until the small hours. Oh, and some great learning too, as a bonus :) 🧀🍷⛰️
A group of students sitting by a lake, listening to presentations from people working in the area, mountains just visible behind the trees along the lake.
"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy" - applications open for the 20th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq open until April 20th: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool...
Wasps (and me!) On #Radio4 #YouAndYour today 12.35ish.
Follow link to #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey here and in @bbcsounds.bsky.social app.
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@UCLNews
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South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them!
I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion
#MendTheGap #SpringlineProject
Book your free ticket here:
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#WaspLove
Highly recommend applying for this. An amazing experience in an outstanding location
Alternet summer school students and tutors in discussion in breakout groups sitting outside around the tables also used for lunch, surrounded by trees and other vegetation that are found around the mountain village of Peyresq.
Applications for this year’s Alternet summer school open until the end of April: Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/ supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social and taking place in Peyresq, a mountain village in the Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France 🧪
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
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The village of Peyresq, set in the French mountains, surrounded by trees and pasture.
Dates 3-13th September 2025 and, once again, the summer school is held in Peyresq, Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France, with field trip to Lac d'Allos in the Parc National du Mercantour 2/2
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
Cover image of Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 1 Special Issue: Advances in Insect Biomonitoring for Agriculture and Forestry, February 2025
Our Feb 2025 issue of Agricultural & Forest Entomology, @AFEntomology Vol 27 Issue 1, is a Special Issue:
Advances in Insect #Biomonitoring for Agriculture & Forestry
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🐝 UK insect researchers, we need your input 🦋
The RES is gathering insights on your experiences with #InsectEthics applications. Whether you engage in the process or not, your feedback matters!
🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽
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#Entomology #ResearchSurvey
The Advances in Insect Biomonitoring for Agriculture and Forestry Special Issue includes this must watch/read paper on ultra high-speed photography of aphid flight, link to a video at the start: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #biodiversity #monitoring @royentsoc.bsky.social 🧪
Santiago Masagué et al. demonstrate the importance of considering multiple sensory perspectives when designing monitoring methods. By altering the visual cues associated with pheromone lures for an invasive forest wasp, capture frequency was increased.
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Ayman Asiri et al. review the potential for semiochemical analysis for the detection of insect diseases, focusing on the context of pollinators. They discuss recent advances that allow in-field surveillance, potential applications and future prospects.
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Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda et al. review the increasing adoption of camera trapping for detecting insect predator-prey interactions. They discuss the equipment used, other parameters and considerations, guidance for new adopters and future advances likely to come soon.
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@bensjhawthorne.bsky.social et al. review the integration of DNA metabarcoding with traditional insect monitoring methods in agriculture. Molecular analysis presents many distinct benefits, but also some challenges that require careful consideration and expertise.
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@mukilansuresh.bsky.social et al. discuss the potential for computer vision and deep learning for identification of trapped insects, and the integration of DNA metabarcoding for cross-validation, facilitating construction of ecological networks.
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My co-authors and I propose the need for year-round monitoring of biocontrol interactions to enhance our understanding of predator-pest dynamics, but this will demand various methodological innovations and considerations, for which we provide guidance.
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@danielleybourne.bsky.social et al. discuss the significant advances that artificial intelligence brings to insect biomonitoring, particularly in providing decision support systems to help farmers identify pests and virus vectors, but also the challenges to overcome.
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In an editorial, we summarise the articles within the special issue and provide a synthesis on the overarching themes and concepts, which include the various emerging technologies underpinning significant advances, alongside some conceptual changes in how and when we monitor.
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Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today!
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Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!
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Great to see the Special Issue on Advances in Insect Biomonitoring led by @jordancuff.bsky.social now in print in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology 🧪 #biodiversity #monitoring #AI #biocontrol #metabarcoding #camera #trapping #disease #surveillance #migration
Figure from paper showing dead wood survey process and saproxylic beetle sampling: (a) entomologist in forest taking dead wood sample; (b) sample bolts, 50 cm in length; (c) wood samples in emergence four chambers; (d) room with about 20 emergence chambers.
Species of beetles living in dead oak wood are influenced by degree of wood decay (from early to well decayed) in winter: new paper in @royentsoc.bsky.social Agricultural and Forest Entomology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #saproxylic #insects #Coleoptera #biodiversity 🧪
Fourteen of the authors who published in Agricultural and Forest Entomology recently, pictured in agricultural fields, forests, the lab and giving a presentation on their work.
Many thanks to all the authors (some pictured here) who published in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology this year, and the many reviewers who supported @jordancuff.bsky.social, myself and the other editors: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1461... #insects 🧪
The winners from all @royentsoc.bsky.social journals are listed on its website: www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-jou... 🧪
Moth larva feeding on the underside of a Nothofagus leaf in the lab.
And to Laura Pietrantuono for a paper on the influence of host genetics on the feeding behaviour of a native moth on Nothofagus trees resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪
A cluster of oak processionary moth caterpillars on a branch, their long, irritating hairs surrounding them.
Highly commended Early Career Entomologist awards for Agricultural and Forest Entomology went to Yevhen Suprunenko for work on the spread of an invasive forest pest, oak processionary moth resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 🧪[Photo from Forest Research]
Three entomologists talking in a blueberry field in Chile.
The Agricultural and Forest Entomology ECR best paper award for 2023 goes to José Neiva Mesquita Neto for their paper showing that native pollinators can be more important than exotic bees imported in huge numbers from Europe for pollinating blueberry in Chile www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪
An ant pollinating buckwheat flowers.
The @royentsoc.bsky.social has just announced the winners of the new ECR awards for best papers in 2022 and 2023: the Agricultural and Forest Entomology award for 2022 goes to Kae Natsume for paper which shows how ants are underappreciated pollinators of crops www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪