"Steep insect biomass declines ('insectageddon') have been widely reported, despite a lack of continuously collected biomass data ... Such severe declines are not supported by the world’s longest running insect population database:" Rothamsted Research Research nature.com/articles/s4155…

Gravitational-like forces in insect swarms - Dr Andy Reynolds at Rothamsted Research explains the surprising similarity in behaviour of a collection of stars and insect swarms ow.ly/ZVzo50x9HHe #Interface #openaccess

Pope Francis pulled his hand away from a woman in a crowd in St Peter's Square after this awkward altercation. For the latest videos, head here: news.sky.com/videos

Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways pnas.org/content/early/…

Plagues of Desert Locust: No invasion risk to China biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

All my dear friends, how are you? I wish everything goes well. Please take care you and your family.

Stay at home, do essential travel. Because we don't know who is B and 2B.

"Once Upon A Virus" Very good Chinese take on Western (US/UK) failure

New paper by Boya Gao from her time in my lab, a radar study of orientation behaviour of high-flying migrant hoverflies, in Proc Roy Soc: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… with Karl Wotton, gao, Myles Menz & @Hawkes_Will. Sequel to our recent HF migration paper in Current Biology

Migratory Take-Off Behaviour of the Mongolian Grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus mdpi.com/760760 via MDPI

Plagues of Desert Locusts: Very Low Invasion Risk to China ##mdpiinsects via MDPI

Hot off the press 🥳! A study from our lab reveals that the monarch butterfly light sensitive Cryptochrome 1 - but not the mammalian-like Cryptochrome 2 - mediates light-dependent magnetosensing of the Earth's magnetic field inclination disq.us/t/3umqeo5

What defences have pollinators evolved to detoxify natural substances and how does this effect their sensitivity to insecticides? Join University of Exeter CEC for a fully-funded 4 year PhD to find out. Details and application: exeter.ac.uk/studying/fundi… Deadline June 14th. Image @Hawkes_Will

Overseas Immigration of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Invading Korea and Japan in 2019 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Our PNAS paper about Painted Lady Butterfly is online now. Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant pnas.org/content/118/26…

Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research mdpi.com/si/113413 #mdpiinsects via Insects MDPI

Focus on Fall Armyworm frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Changing patterns of the East Asian monsoon drive shifts in migration and abundance of a globally important rice pest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Nanjing Agricultural University is hosting the 3rd International Conference of Insect Pest Management (ICIPM 2023) in Nanjing, on 20-23 October 2023. As vice chairman of the conference, I cordially invite you to participate in this conference in Nanjing's golden autumn.

Climate change is leading to an ecological trap in a migratory insect | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…