Happy international #biodiversityday from GSBI! It's a great day to remember that about ~59% of the world's biodiversity lives in soils 🐛🐜🪱🤎

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Come join us in Cape Town, South Africa for an amazing international meeting on all things soil fauna! For details go to: icsz2024.org. Please share. #soilfauna #soilhealth #ICSZICA2024 Women In Soil Ecology Soil Biodiversity Anton Potapov

You should submit an abstract to our symposium if you are working🧪 on the ecology and biodiversity🕷️🐟🦭🐋🪲🐛🐧 of Antarctica and/or the Southern Ocean🌊🌬️🌦️❄️

🎤From Antarctica and Southern ocean to Australia🎤

The Royal Entomological Society Forest Invertebrates SIG online meeting, is coming up on 2 May.

If you work with #ForestInvertebrates , why not consider attending? Registration is still open!

More details at royensoc.co.uk/event/forest-i…

A new paper in African Entomology reports that post-release surveys have shown three native parasitoids are attacking the biological control agent Hydrellia egeriae, which can affect its ability to exert top-down control on Egeria densa. Read more: buff.ly/3Vs8Gml

New publication in African Entomology! A recent study identified a range of phytophagous arthropods including several gall midge species that could be evaluated for biological control of introduced buffelgrass populations. Read more here: africanentomology.com/article/view/1… #biocontrol

SENIOR RESEARCHER, WEEDS RESEARCH. The ARC-Plant Health and Protection seeks to appoint a highly skilled, experienced and dynamic person to the following position at Cedara Campus, Hilton, KZN. Details available here: buff.ly/3QHUdQe

Learn more about optimising an artificial feeding system for mosquitoes that can be used for downstream analysis in a new article published in African Entomology.
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Hot off the press 💻🥳!!

Our latest blog on Beneath our Feet is out! Mark Anthony Mark Anthony discusses his latest paper finding that 59% +/- 15% of soil diversity is found in soil 🪱🐛🐜🦠🍄! The blog can be found here: globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath-o…

Book launch of 'Southern African Moths & their Caterpillars'. 24 October, 17:30, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens. RSVP needed, details below. #insects #southafrica #entomology

The poster is now available, but in Japanese. You can download it from this site(ice2024kyoto.jp). Please put it up in various places and let people know about it.

Members of ESSA are invited to enter our photographic competition! This recent entry of a Gonioscelis fly was sent in by Torsten Dikow. Details on how to enter here: entsocsa.co.za/grants-prizes/ or how to become a member here: entsocsa.co.za/membership/

MSc opportunities within the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)-ABIPP project on creating a new value chain for lower-grade potatoes in the agro-processing industry. Please see the attached advertisement.

In honour of the new #Barbie Movie we spent some time giving a few of our specimens a small makeover!

We use a range of different mass digitisation workflows in the digitisation team. Four of them are covered here, which do you think they are?

#Barbie #DigitalCollection

Congrats to our presenters for flying the WRIM flag high while sharing important malaria vector work at #ESSA23 last week (11-14 July 2023). 🦟

#Witsmalaria #Mosquitoresearch

Save the Date: The next Fly School will be at the Soltis Center in Costa Rica, 1-12 August 2024! We are thrilled to finally offer the course again. If you have questions, find one of us at #ICDXReno or email us (info in flyer). Also joining is Jessica Gillung!!

Doing some #bumblebee spotting in the garden or when you're out and about? 👀🐝

Download our FREE (and printable!) 'Big 8' poster - your handy guide to the eight most common UK bumblebee species 👋

Get it here 👉 ow.ly/M2TE50NH3FV

#BeeTheChange

It's the start of #NationalMothWeek ! As a #moth lover and scientist, I'll be posting a moth photo/video each day this week with cool facts about them. Here's the first, one of my favorites - Madagascar Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus). Photo: J. Sullivan (L), anonymous (R).

Are you thinking of enrolling in entomology? Visit the link below to discover the exciting #career paths in #entomology that you may not have known existed 🐞

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📸Elizabeth Cooksey

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