Perhaps my favourite finding from our insect migration study in the Pyrenees was that even the most miniscule of insects were migrating! Here is a photo of an already small Pied hoverfly, but next to it is a tiny Oscinella grass fly, both migrating in their millions through the

The most remarkable #migrants—systematic analysis of the Western European #insect flyway at a Pyrenean mountain pass #ProcB ow.ly/JYRr50SkLIj #OpenAccess Dr Will Leo Hawkes #Ecosystems #ECCB2024

2 beautiful parasitic plants form the Lizard - Thyme Broomrape from Kynance, an obligate parasite of Thyme that is pretty local in England; and the more widespread Yellow Bartsia from Windmill Farm, a hemiparasite of various grasses & legumes. @windmillfarmnn1 Tony Wilson

Mothing at Devichoys Wood, nr Penryn produced this Trachypepla contritella last night. A rare adventive from NZ with just a few records from nr Hayle & nr London. ⁦Jason Chapman⁩ ⁦Matthew Broadbent⁩ ⁦Leela Channer⁩ ⁦Migrant Lepidoptera⁩ ⁦⁦

We turned on our insect radar in Ceuta, on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar, and immediately we could see loads migrating insects flying well over 400m up! Each red cross is an insect in the graph. These insects were completely invisible to our eyes. The ones we

For #wildflowerhour, 2 v rare rushes from the Lizard, Cornwall last week - Pigmy Rush and Dwarf Rush BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whether they'd get anything at all They did 🤩 ... 🧵 #Borneo #RainforestGiants

Dragonfly Week is here! Join me to celebrate these superb wetland jewels, 1030 Sunday 7th July 2024 with a visit to Great Wheal Seton & Bell Lake Marsh along the Red River Valley LNR. See the Events page on the British Dragonfly Society's website for full details.

PhD available on insect responses to climate extremes using long-term datasets and novel tech #ai #biodiversity with Jenna Lawson Jason Chapman Tom Oliver joint UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology University of Exeter Uni of Reading. Apply by 29th July exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Full of pride to graduate from my insect migration PhD alongside such brilliant minds at the University of Exeter, Cornwall. Thank you so much to everyone that helped along the way, especially to my supervisors Karl Wotton and Jason Chapman, my PhD brother Richard Massy (LHS photo 2), my mum

Another 118 (!) Cory's past Pendennis Point this evening with Jason Chapman and @carla_hill99 , along with 2 Balearics! James Drage Hubert had 45 more Cory's and 2 Greats after we left! Forgot to take a pic, so here's yesterday's again Cornwall Birds

More great moths - this time at Marazion - many thanks ⁦RSPB⁩ Webb’s, Brown-veined & Twin-spotted Wainscots, White-line Dart and The Crescent. ⁦@windmillfarmnn1⁩ ⁦Jason Chapman⁩ ⁦Matthew Broadbent⁩ ⁦Elliott Cornelius⁩

📢PhD Position available! Our lab Institut Botànic de Barcelona is recruiting a PhD student to work on Butterfly Migration Genomics 🦋🌍 📝Apply by: 15th September 2024 🔬Lab: phylomigrationlab.com ℹ️More details: ibb.csic.es/en/2024/08/phd…

🚨New Insect migration paper🦋 Stefanescu, @CrinanJarrett et al. found that migratory painted lady butterflies are more likely to be attacked by predators closer to the equator A reason for their northward migration could be to escape being lunch! Paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Remembering mountain moth trap mornings monitoring migration in the Pyrenees during my PhD with University of Exeter, Cornwall and Karl Wotton The hawkmoths (Conovulus and Death's head here) are some of the most impressive insect migrants. The death's heads even squeak and smell of honey!

After 15-years of photographing birds throughout Asia, a major passion of mine, I have now opened my own company. Bird-Photo-Tours Asia will operate 35 scheduled bird photography tours per annum across 20 Asian countries, Bird-Photo-Tours.com. [Retweets today most welcome]!

News from down under! Our latest study in Current Biology uses weather radar to uncover Australia’s unique bird migration patterns—smaller in scale but high variable in timing, direction, and magnitude. Link: cell.com/current-biolog…. #ornithology #BirdMigration #Australia