Craneflies, a 🧵 We are approaching the time of year where the media publish scare stories about the annual emergence of certain species of #cranefly (aka #DaddyLonglegs). This happens every year (the cranefly emergence & the anti-bug stories). 🧵 1/8 #ShareDontScare

Many congratulations DR Bushra!! Great contribution to research, great contribution to advocacy REED Ecological Network . And your chicken nail design is divine 🐔 ᴰʳ Bushra (she/her) 🇵🇸 🇪🇺

It's a beautiful but chilly day here in Glasgow, with temperature in water containers only 6C. However not too cold for this wee warrior - found in one habitat this morning over almost 2 weeks of no mosquitoes in our larval surveillance.

Are you taking part in #BugsMatter? 🪰 It's really easy to be a #CitizenScientist; support our important initiative measuring insect splats on vehicle number plates as a marker of insect abundance. Will you make your journeys count? 👇 buglife.org.uk/get-involved/s… Kent Wildlife Trust

#mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists? dlvr.it/TDJnsS @nature

1/3📢 Si el #mosquito invasor #AedesJaponicus, actualmente presente en el norte peninsular, comienza a expandirse e incrementa sus densidades, podría tener un papel bastante relevante en la transmisión del #virus de la #FiebreDelNilo en un futuro próximo 👉🏻parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Wonderful week Sapienza Università di Roma delivering a workshop on #InfraredSpectroscopy for #vector-borne disease surveillance VectorsGlasgow 🙏 to instructors @magonji University of Glasgow Chemistry & Ivan Casas UofG SBOHVM & Sophie Mwinyi Ifakara Health Institute 🙏 to hosts #AlessandradellaTorre #MattiaFoti

🌍🦟 Climate change is driving unprecedented levels of dengue in California, with local transmission now reported in L.A. County. Stay safe: use repellents, eliminate standing water, and stay informed! CDC World Health Organization (WHO) #Dengue latimes.com/california/sto…

🦟#WestNileVirus is currently considered an endemic disease in Southern #Europe, so we need to fight againts #Culex #mosquitoes #vectors continuously all over the year in order to reduce human transmission risks🦠 🇫🇷We are in PROSANE to talk about this with French colleagues

Unfortunately, this type of training will be increasingly needed. Through our MosquitoScotland Project, we've realised many people including doctors don't know you can get mosquito bites in Scotland. Good to see University of Glasgow take a lead with this. theguardian.com/global-develop…

The MosquitoScotland team had a great week at #ESOVE2024 presenting results on #mosquitoes and #vector-borne disease risk. Below left Dr Georgia Kirby shares her results from #citizenscience, right Meshach Lee presents on his mosquito trap evaluation VectorsGlasgow UofG SBOHVM

MosquitoScotland team catch up at #ESOVE in Montpellier! L-R - Francesco Baldini Dr Steven White Emilie Pondeville & Jean-Philippe Parvy. Great meeting with lots of interesting talks & exchanges. Looking forward to @EMCAtweets conference next year. @vectorsglasgow MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @uk_ceh

Great to see this discussion of the growing threat of #mosquito vector-borne diseases due to #climate change in House of Lords today. Risks are increasing internationally & in UK Lord Jonny Oates MosquitoScotland VectorsGlasgow

It is not just in Scotland that mosquitoes can pose a biting risk. Even this late in the yr, residents of BallyKelly in #NorthernIreland are experiencing high nuisance due to common house mosquito. Colleagues at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Ross Cuthbert aim to study bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Did you catch #OutOfDoors on BBC Radio Scotland this weekend? It featured a fascinating piece about monitoring mosquitoes at Montrose Basin Wildlife Reserve with UofG Vet. Listen now on BBC Sounds 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Thx Out of Doors for this interview with Scottish Wildlife Trust team about the mosquito research they are conducting at Montrose Basin with MosquitoScotland. Listen from 2:46-12:24 mins. Mosquitoes are widespread in Scotland, but no health risk at present bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

How to discuss research environment in your grant application to Wellcome. wellcome.org//what-we-do/ou…

Check out the PhD projects on offer in the MosSI Lab LSTM! Mosquitoes and their microbes - gut bacteria, wolbachia, and virus flavours to choose from! Pls share! lstmed.ac.uk/study/research…

🦟 Mosquitoes in Scotland as far north as Shetland Citizen Science project, Mosquito Scotland (MosquitoScotland), is exploring the extent of the mosquito population in Scotland. Heather Ferguson Emilie Pondeville Read more: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…