A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬

Paper @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#butterflymigration #insectmigration #migratorydivide #evolution

Back to the insects! The discussion highlighted the remarkable efficiency of insect flight, like hoverflies crossing oceans. Natural selection and wind patterns enable these creatures to undertake epic migrations, far beyond initial assumptions. #InsectMigration 4/6

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Vulnerability and #conservation value of #MonarchButterfly (#Danaus plexippus L.) roosting #habitats east of the Appalachian Mountains, USA
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70026

#InsectMigration
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Come from away: Reconstructing a long-range migratory flight of spruce #budworm moths to Newfoundland, Canada
doi.org/10.1111/een.70011

#InsectMigration #SBW #Choristoneura
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

It almost escaped trying to pot it but in the end I've got my 2nd very rare migrant moth at light this autumn, Diasemiopsis ramburialis! About the 16th for Belgium since 1980 and my 708th garden species, hopefully better pics this evening...
#mothmigration #insectmigration #mothsmatter

Seven-spot Ladybirds on Great Lettuce at Goldhanger Creek on the Essex coast

vast numbers of 7-spot Ladybirds on the move along the Essex coast this afternoon

at least 150 per minute flying north just on this one section of footpath, constant since midday, vegetation full & occasional biters... it's like the 80s all over again

#InsectMigration #TheGoodOldDays

1/6) New paper out in Molecular Ecology! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies. @phylomigrationlab.bsky.social
#biogeography #insectmigration #butterflymigration #butterflies #evolution
shorturl.at/UFrrU

slide image of a thrips insect showing forewing to the left, body and head as the darker bits, and antennae to the top right of picture

slide image of a thrips insect showing body and head as the darker bits with the yes at top of picture

slide image of the antennae of a thrips insect

slide image of the body of a thrips insect

Slide images of a handsome Thrips tabaci, one of many found in a ripe fig from South Africa. There were adults, pupae, and larvae all present in the inverted inflorescence of the black fig. Was hoping for Agaonid wasps, with no luck, alas.

#Thrips #InsectMigration

One morning after strong winds from the Sahara to the south, an estimated one MILLION rush veneer (Nomophila noctuella) moths arrived to the tip of the Karpaz peninsula of Cyprus. All on their northward migration. #insectmigration

Full paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...