From the garden yesterday, another Harlequin, this tine f.spectabilis, a Garden Cross Spider, and a philodromus sp. ⁦Tam_VC77⁩ ⁦GNHS⁩ ⁦Richard Jones⁩ ⁦Helen Roy⁩

The beetles were hiding away but found these two before getting up on my creaky knees. Phyllobius pomaceus and one of the attractive forms of a 10 spot ladybird Adalia decimpunctata f. decimpustata. StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 headquarters today. Helen Roy Staffs Ecology

A very quick walk around the woods behind St Stephen's Church, Pamphill this morning hoping the bluebells were still glorious ,and they were.
Birds singing but hiding, my 1st Spk Wood this year and a few Grey-patched Mining bees also firsts.

🌎🌻🐝 For example, Flower-Insect Time Counts have been designed to be adaptable to any local situation, and have already been developed in western & eastern Europe and in countries in the Caribbean and South America, in collaboration with local stakeholders UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme 3/

Large-scale, long-term #CitizenScience datasets provide evidence of declines in species globally.

And digital technologies, such as smartphone apps and AI, are transforming how we address data gaps, track insect populations, and engage with nature.

ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media… 2/

Monitoring of insects is crucial to inform conservation action addressing biodiversity loss & climate change

A new One Earth primer describes the use of citizen science and emerging approaches with digital technologies for insect monitoring 🦋🐞🪰
ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media… 🧵

'Connecting people and nature, citizen science has the potential to increase our understanding of currently under-represented taxa and regions' - Lead author Professor Helen Roy, UKCEH Helen Roy University of Exeter CEC 4/

See the full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…

#LadybirdYearList species no. 1️⃣5️⃣ on Nettle at Ballymoon Castle, Co. Carlow today.

Citizen science for ticks! How exciting COST Helen Roy InsectAI IDAlert project Martinou Lab #pragmatick #nyborg denmark

This turned up on my desk: not one of the conspicuous species, I think. And small, too: <10mm long

Anything bees can do... 'Debunking wasp pollination: Wasps are comparable to bees in terms of plant interactions, body pollen and single‐visit pollen deposition' resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Here is the full World Meteorological Organization UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology HydroSOS poster if you missed it this morning at #EGU24 . Loads of great discussions and future collaborations to follow up on 🌟🌍📊

Doing ecological studies during a biodiversity crisis is difficult. In 2002 I began studying Marsh Tits in an ancient woodland to see how a functioning population worked. After 10 yrs I realised I was now documenting their slide towards local extinction:

theguardian.com/environment/20…

The winners of the World Nature Photography Awards 2024 have been revealed! 📢

Check out the outstanding winning images. ⤵️

🗞️📷 euronews

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How is the natural world falling silent? UKCEH ecologist Richard Broughton 🇺🇦 has visited NE West Anglia Team Monks Wood for 20+ years for long-term research. He is both seeing & hearing the decline of Marsh Tits.

Hear more on The Guardian #ScienceWeekly podcast 🎧

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Want to present your work to the global entomological community? Submit your abstract to #Ento24 today. 

Whether you’re joining in person or online, there are opportunities for everyone to participate. 

Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 14 June.

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🌺Want to discover the lexicon of nature? Join us & dive into the language of #biodiversity !🔍

Pollution is 1 of the 5 direct drivers of #BiodiversityLoss , with land- and sea-use change, #ClimateChange , resource exploitation & invasive alien species.🌿

‌According to ipbes ⬇️

A pleasant but windy pm on Friday, with 15 species recorded, including Nephus quadrimaculatus (Ivy LB), Scymnus haemorrhoidalis (Red-rumped LB), Stethorus pusillus (Dot LB), and the smallest 14-spot I've ever seen, with 16-spot for comparison. #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Pls RT. #Job !

Deadline approaching! 19th April - #Bioinformatician role in #Evolutionary #Genomics - come work with us on a Natural Environment Research Council funded grant. See post 👇 and link for details.
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Drop us a line if you have any questions!
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We have an exciting calendar of events coming up in 2024, covering key topics across #InsectScience & more will be announced soon!

Be sure to join the Society before registering, members have access to #discounted registration fees for all our #events .

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