A juvenile Clubiona sp. spider BAS

In our latest blog - Travelling into a green future - we look at Scotland’s transport network, old and new, and find confidence in adopting pollinator-friendly actions taking hold. Blog @ scottishpollinators.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/tra…

Huge congratulations to the winners of last night's #SF24 quiz, 1st Place Team: How Many Fleas Can You Fit In Your Mouth, very well done everyone 🪲🎉 Kian Hayles-Cotton, Joshua Sammy, Gaia Mortier and Tamara. (Teammates not photographed: Andra Opris & Indiana Jones)

Had a blast presenting my poster at the Royal Entomological Society Student Forum and meeting the best bug people🐝🐛 Go pubquiz team HowManyFleasCanYouFitInYourMouth! Kian Hayles-Cotton, Joshua Sammy, Gaia Mortier Tamara Indiana Jones #entomology #insect #hoverfly #SF24

Isle of Arran looking unreal this weekend🏔🏕🐛

Want to improve your spider ID skills? Book now for our weekend course in conjunction with @NorfolkNats, led by the epic Richard Gallon, head of the Spider Recording Scheme, and based Banham Zoo, Norfolk on 11-12 May. Details at eventbrite.co.uk/e/spider-ident…

PoMS Annual Report 2023 = a fascinating insight into pollinators in the UK. Below you can see results of insects counted in two habitat types, agricultural & gardens, showing proportion from each group across all years of the survey (2017-2023). See @ ukpoms.org.uk/sites/default/…

How can cities be designed for everyday nature?🌿 Visintin et al shared that the disciplines of urban and architectural design and #conservationscience need to be combined to enhance #nature in cities.🏢 Read more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… #conservation #science

A composite image of just two seconds worth of insect migration in the Pyrenees! You can see that the vast majority are flies, although there's a dragon on the far right. We recorded 17 million (!!) insects moving south each autumn through this 30m wide pass. Paper:

New paper out of the lab led by @EntoSamm in collaboration with Scott Clem, PhD, based on an undergrad project by Blair Fitz A worldwide review of Syrphidae migration: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… The review is open access+summarizes over 150 years of work on syrph migration!

Myrmecia queenslandica with prey, found and identified by Charlotte Raven (@raven_research33). Sunshine coast, Qld 🇦🇺 2024

A beautiful hummingbird hawkmoth. These dayflying moths are highly migratory & are currently migrating south towards Africa for the winter! Part of the 17 MILLION other insects we saw migrating: Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… But they're also vital pollinators... 🧵

A new study shows that #butterflies, #bumblebees & #hoverflies can be equally effective #pollinators. Read about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2024/09/13/but… #ecology #biodiversity #botany #entomology #bees Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Steven Falk Dave Goulson hoverflylagoons Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Globe skimmer dragonflies migrate from India to Africa each autumn in search of puddles to lay their eggs in. They travel over 3000km across an ocean! But what is more amazing is that tiny midges ride these dragons on their journey! 🪰🐉 New podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/willa…

🪦In this study, Itescu & Jeschke found that the #conservation value of #cemeteries is as high as that of some other #urbangreenspaces, particularly for #native biota.🌿 Learn more at: doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… #science #spookyscience #spookysunday

📢Delighted to announce my big new #publication in the journal #Restoration #Ecology is now available online & #OpenAccess: "Montane willow scrub restoration in Scotland: reviewing 30 years of progress to reestablish the altitudinal treeline" (🧵1/10) 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

PhD opp: Interested in the intersect between freshwater and terrestrial systems? Check this out: Understanding the role of complexity and diversity in riparian woodland resilience to extreme events w Dr Sarah Greenwood, @marion_pfeifer Sarah Watts & myself iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…