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New paper out: the awful heatwave in July 2022 gave us a glimpse into how insects behave when experiencing extreme temperatures, and what we can do to help them ☀️🔥🦋 doi.org/10.1007/s10841…

Are there REALLY more insects out at night?🌞🌘🦋 Our global study Nature Communications empirically tackles this "simple question a child may ask, the answer to which is important, unknown, and subject to various ecological hypotheses"–Reviewer 1😆 Open Access: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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… 🧵

Decoupling floral resource dynamics from plant density dynamics, key to fostering multiscale selection explaining partial specialisation of plant-pollinator networks. GLiTRS NITheCS Low floral resource constrains network specialisation - Oikos nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oi…

A gentle intro to cameras, computer vision and AI for insect monitoring by me and Toke Thomas Høye in the new Routledge Books Handbook of Insect Conservation doi.org/10.4324/978100… Excited to read other chapters from @CharlieLouO, Tom Rhys Bishop, Lynn Dicks! (PM me if access denied...)

New! A whole book on Insect Conservation. A great resource for students & teachers. drnickisaac.bsky.social @BowlerDBear @elizagrames & I wrote a chapter in which we explain what’s known about insect decline, using the Essential Biodiversity Variables as a framework. GLiTRS Royal Entomological Society

New book chapter on the impact of climate change on insects 📖☀️🦋🦗🪲 Led by the wonderful @CharlieLouO with Rob Cooke, Joe Millard and Andrew Bladon taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

New book chapter on practical solutions to climate change for insect conservation 📖🪲🦗🦋🪧🔗🌿🏞️ Led by Andrew Bladon with Rob Cooke, Joe Millard, and @CharlieLouO taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

Nearly 80% of animals are #insects, yet we are far from incorporating them in #conservation #assessments, mostly due to the lack of #distribution data). We discuss how #technologies can be used to improve insect #monitoring through #citizen #science. Link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

The Routledge Books Handbook of Insect Conservation, a great resource for students & teachers explaining what’s known about #InsectDecline with chapters by Lynn Dicks, drnickisaac.bsky.social, @BowlerDBear, @elizagrames, Jamie Alison and many others ⬇️ doi.org/10.4324/978100…

Calling #Moth enthusiasts! Do you operate a moth trap? If so, pls help Iona Cunningham-Eurich out with her PhD, by filling in a 10 min anonymous survey. It's all about (anon) YOU, your motivations & the #INSECTS in your trap! Natural History Museum UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research @BroadGavin Pls RT! Royal Entomological Society Buglife

We've been enjoying all the bee photos for #WorldBeeDay - watch more bees and other #pollinators by taking part in our 10-minute FIT Counts to help monitor these insects. Counts can be done at any location during fine weather, see info at ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Amazing talk on the threats that insects are facing globally by Andrew Bladon. GLiTRS

Some thoughts from me and others on insect decline & the role of pesticides theguardian.com/environment/ar… Dept of Zoology @cambridge_uccri

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are advertising an 18-month research assistant position to investigate the drivers of insect biodiversity change, working on the fabulous GLITRS Project (glitrs.ceh.ac.uk). DM to discuss further details, or apply here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Important new paper led by Melissa Guzman showing that insecticides reduce bee abundances in the United States nature.com/articles/s4189…

Do you have a passion for dragonflies and damselflies, & share observations in any way?  We are conducting a survey about dragonfly recording in the UK.  Whether you are a beginner or expert, specialist or generalist, we would really welcome your input: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online-s…

We are working in partnership with governments and research partners internationally to develop solutions for nature restoration and reverse #biodiversity loss. Meet the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology team at #COP16Colombia: drnickisaac.bsky.social Tom August Lindsay Banin Rob Cooke #PeaceWithNature

📰We had two new #EnvironmentalScience stories today Details of a new GLiTRS review on how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🪳🦗🪲🦋 Our news: ceh.ac.uk/press/some-ins… Full study: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

Tracking insect biodiversity change needs a mix of time-series, experiments, spatial data & expert insights NITheCS C•I•B AIMS South Africa GLiTRS B-Cubed Project UN Biodiversity Integrating...understand insect biodiversity change | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…