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In our sandfly workshop organised by @naturmusee and Vectornet, the participants from BeNeLux + France and Spain, just did the first recording of Phlebotomus in Luxembourg ECDC

Wow, just wow. The planet is breaking. Antarctic sea ice extent is the headline for me this morning. There was actually a net *decrease* in ice extent day over day, and it's mid-winter there, peak freeze season. Extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.

Natural history collections shed light on bumblebee struggles blog.pensoft.net/2023/07/11/nat… via Pensoft

Don’t miss the talk on insect pollinators & their special relationship with their host plants & the peculiar, bizarre-pollination mechanisms employed by orchids. 1st of August @ 6:30 pm in🇬🇧by our scientific collaborator Fernanda Herrera, beelibre🐝🐝🐝👉eventbrite.fr/e/billets-biza…

Have you ever used #LandscapeGenetics? User beware, the chosen genetic distance metric can have a big effect on your results. Check out our publication with @naturmusee MNHNLzoology UCLA Environment and Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment! link to article -> buff.ly/3rMhmXD

New kid on the block: im #Tessin frisst sich der #Japankäfer Popillia japonica querbeet durch die Vegetation. Seine Ausbreitung nördlich der Alpen zu unterbinden ist Sisyphus-Arbeit, wenn überhaupt machbar...

🆕publication! 🧬DNA-based biodiversity analyses in nature conservation and environmental protection: What options do we have for standardization? A research & practice recommendation. Our scientific curator AlexWeigand is co-author. bfn.de/publikationen/… BundesNaturschutzAmt

📢#TETTRIsEU is organising a second webinar about the Third-Party Projects call! 📅Save the date: September 6th, from 9:30 to 11:00 CET. ➡️Register here: tinyurl.com/TETTRIs3PP

If you want to learn how to perform environmental DNA #eDNA analyses for Sensing the Diversity of Life and Assessing #Ecosystem Health Register to our online course starting on September on edX edx.org/learn/biology-…

Statement from the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections regarding the disposal of taxidermy collections: spnhc.org/spnhc-statemen… Learn more or contact us: spnhc.org/resources/nhco… spnhc.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Main_Page spnhc.org/contact-us/

Tag 2 unseres Seminars zur Höhlenfauna Luxemburgs. Gestern in den Mamerlayen im Feld, heute praktische Bestimmungsübungen @naturmusee MNHNLzoology Lieben Dank an Dieter Weber und Christine Harbusch, und an die tollen TeilnehmerInnen

Introducing the Entomoscope! 🦟🔬 DIY microscope for getting detailed images of tiny insects in ethanol. Do this: 1️⃣ 3D-print the case 2️⃣ Order parts online 3️⃣ Assemble 4️⃣ Begin imaging! 📸Perfect for entomologists keen on training AI! tinyurl.com/bdh86krz #DIYMicroscopy🐜

📢The preliminary results of our #BiodivMon call are out! Biodiversa+ is very pleased to share the shortlist of 33 projects that are recommended for funding by our Evaluation Committee 🙌 Discover them here 👀 biodiversa.eu/2022/10/07/202…

Thank you LëtzebuergCityMuseum for the great and crowded vernissage today. Happy that we @naturmusee MNHNLzoology can be a tiny part of the "ALL YOU CAN EAT" exhibition. Well done Moh!

🧬Happy to announce that after the great #GeoBonConf2023 GEO BON we invite submissions to special issue📕MBMG Journal „Towards standardized molecular biodiversity monitoring“ edited by Teresita Porter @[email protected] Kelly Goodwin - NOAA Federal @Tiina_Laamanen John Darling, Toshifumi Minamoto The eDNA Society RT 🙏

🚀#BiodiversityMonitoring Boost: 33 #Research Projects Funded We launched the #BiodivMon call in Sept 2022, seeking innovative 3-year projects for transnational biodiversity monitoring. After a meticulous evaluation, we're thrilled to announce the selection of 33 projects. 🧵1/3

🇩🇪 Germany's first-ever Action Plan to combat invasive alien species identifies 14 key pathways and proposes 24 measures, marking a significant step towards preserving biodiversity and preventing ecological imbalances. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neobio… #conservation #invasivespecies

Thank you Denis Klein Musée des Mines de Fer for the invited visit yesterday. Looking forward to our potential collaboration with Lucie Majerus Minett Unesco Biosphere on subterranean life

Currently cataloguing Thysanoptera (thrips) diversity in Luxembourg. Any idea Manfred R. Ulitzka which (Aeolothrips?) species those two specimens are? #pollinators

Hi Manfred R. Ulitzka we stumbled across three other Thrips sp. specimens. One of them we most likely would ID as T. pillichi, but the two others? Any feedback is much welcome :)