Always happy to reinforce HAU's strong local presence and give students an opportunity to network within their chosen field. Fantastic talks and prsentations, as every year

I suspect the New York Times might be trivialising our field of study here but a nice puzzle to kick the day off #Entomology

Unknown wireworm help! The singular urogomphus is confusing myself and colleagues - can not for the life of me find an answer and it's seemingly not in 'Die Käffer Mitteleuropas: Larven 2' though my German is stodgy. Found in East, UK. Anyone point me in the right direction? @colsocbi.bsky.social

An amazing day spent behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum looking at their Entomology collections! What a fantastic day! 🪲

I'll have to take your word on the spider - never a group I've given enough time to. Though a stack of spider-laden pitfall samples waiting for me this summer demand otherwise... But yes to the damselfly! Had the largest damselfly, smallest dragonfly side by side - missed the photo op.

Thank you @nhm-london.bsky.social, what a day for it! @hau-entomology.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Last but not least, the Lepidoptera - some excellent anecdotes about record-breaking proboscises and fenugreek smelling moths @hau-entomology.bsky.social

Of course we have @flygirlnhm.bsky.social taking us through the Diptera - from the cute and fluffy beeflies to the weird and wonderful stalk-eyed flies on to the (to the non-entomological populace anyway) macabre botflies @hau-entomology.bsky.social

'Small Orders' before lunch - inclusive of some other invertebrate intruders. Including a 'pasty spider' - my Cornish pride shining through here @hau-entomology.bsky.social

And to the most massive of all (in terms of size and species), the Coleoptera. Lots of Darwin and Wallace chat of course, and the joys of dung-baited pitfall trapping!

From the massive to the miniscule with the marvellous @gavinbroad.bsky.social talking (mainly wasps!) through the hymenoptera - @hau-entomology.bsky.social

And we're off - annual trip to the @nhm-london.bsky.social Entomology collections for BSc and MSc Entomology and IPM students @hau-entomology.bsky.social. As always thanks to @flygirlnhm.bsky.social for organisation and all of the curators for sharing their wealth of knowledge

And a great way for me to find some #wireworm that aren't Agriotes! Here's some Melanotus under bark on some felled trees

Thankful the weather has allowed for some surveying transects of the @harperadamsuni.bsky.social campus today with final year @hau-entomology.bsky.social students. A great way to see out the module and practice ID skills in the field

Great to be able to step in last minute and deliver the #YoungVerrall this year. Thoroughly enjoyed it and @hau-entomology.bsky.social had a great representation at #SISF2025 too!

It was a genuine honour to step in and deliver the Young Verrall Lecture last minute. I may have been a substitute but a highlight for sure! Some excellent questions from a crowd of future entomologists @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social @hau-entomology.bsky.social

Huge turnout for @hau-entomology.bsky.social at Shropshire Entomology Day today at #FSC Preston Montford. Biggest attendance yet with over 20 students and staff amongst local entomologists and national experts in their field. Photos and posts all day!

Great PhD opportunity - at the same place I did mine!

The new sign looks great but I'm now just about ready for the trap not to be on when leaving the office! Thankfully we've had the latest sunset for the year

The #Christmas Aphid is up on the tree. Bringing Christmas spirit, good cheer, and vectoring viruses straight into your Norwegian pine. Needles gone by Boxing Day. Christmas Aphid - Ho Ho Homoptera!

Always a good module to finish on before the winter break. A good test run for experiment problem solving before students undertake MSc projects

Day 1 of the week-long @harperadamsuni.bsky.social postgraduate experimental design and analysis module today. Always an intensive week but good to meet students across course areas. New computer labs incoming thanks to efforts from @joe-roberts.bsky.social too! #rstats

IPM Guidance for UK Growers IPM crop specific guides: IPM specific guidance for Oilseed Rape in the UK IPM specific guidance for Pulses grown in the UK IPM specific guidance for Potatoes in the UK IPM specific guidance for Sugar...

Here is a list of IPM Guidance for UK Growers on FarmPep
linking to full content on H2020 IPMWorks toolbox. The guides were produced by ADAS with SRUC TheAHDB NFU and others during development of the IPM Tool
farmpep.net/resource/ipm...
#agextension #IPM #farming

Black insect on a green plant.

🌱 Silicon soil treatments help protect cowpeas from aphids! Our study shows it boosts Lutembwe variety's natural defenses. Exciting implications for sustainable farming in Zambia 🇿🇲

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s118...

#AgriScience #FoodSecurity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We've now officially moved here as our main social media account! Thanks to those who have already made it, and we look forward to spreading the @harperadamsuni.bsky.social entomology word here from now on!

Find more of HAU's entomology group here: linktr.ee/hau_entomology

Project titles:

1. Enhancing the efficacy of entomopathogenic control solutions with essential oils for insect pest management

2. Optimising cover crop strategies for integrated pest management of wireworm

Please get in contact for more info, details in bio.

Job Opportunity at Harper Adams University: Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) PhD Apply here for a Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) PhD at Harper Adams University. Please see https://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/research/598/possible-funded-mibtp-projects for...

Two PhD projects advertised for #MIBTP with me and the team @hau-entomology.bsky.social

Details in reply below! Sharing and reposts are appreciated.

Apply here, by 16th Jan 2025: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Looks like @bsky.app is going to be the place to be for @hau-entomology.bsky.social and my regular outreach site! Intermittently over on Instagram. Looking forward to getting back to regular posting and interaction.

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Finishing up with the really interesting stuff... Freshwater inverts and general insect ID with specimens (largely) collected here on the @HarperAdamsUni campus #entomology #undergraduate

First offer holder day activity with future Zoology undergraduate students @HarperAdamsUni - owl pellet dissection! Groups carefully taking apart steam-cleaned owl pellets and ID'ing the bones within @HAU_Entomology @DrJohnReade