It has been fantastic getting the whole ECORISC CDT team together this week to explore links between the different PhD projects and to discuss how the CDT can maximize its impact.

Calling all farmers and vets! 🐑👩‍⚕️🧑🏼‍⚕️ Participate in our surveys on tick-borne livestock diseases. Share your insights on impacts, treatments & control strategies. Farmer survey: buff.ly/4bMBHPe Vet survey: buff.ly/4bQS39q #TickSurvey #LivestockHealth

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The publics perception of insects. Wasps get an undeserved bad rap. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy Leap Day 2024 and join the arthropod leaping team! Only one orthopetran member (the grasshopper) is included since they would easily fill up a whole illustration, that huge leaper family deserve another piece of artwork 🦗

Find out which is your Chinese zodiac arthropod!

This #MothersDay, we want to give a shout out to all the incredible Burying beetle mums out there, working hard to protect and rear their offspring. From preparing the carcass, to regurgitating pre-digested flesh to the larvae - they are exceptional parents! ☺️ 📷 Tom Ratz

Terrestrial isopods 💕 cuteness overload Compared to terrestrial ones, their aquatic relatives are really bizarre and crazy looking, and I’ll do another piece for them!

Join the hunt for short-necked oil beetles! Are you based in the Hebrides? We're looking for volunteers to help survey these rare beetles. Did you know that last year they were found for the very first time on Tiree? Maybe you could be the first to find them near you! Info👇🧵

Happy 3rd birthday Rex the pig dog! #farming

MALAYSIAN MOTH MADNESS!🤯🌳 Fraser’s Hill is one of the most biodiverse places on earth and the incredible MCM Nature Discovery Villa is the PERFECT place to see them! 😍 Setting up a light trap every night to attract insects blew me AWAY! 😵 These Hawk Moths were just a small

Had a lovely time on Tuesday visiting 2 farms owned by the Gaia Trust. Sadly didn’t see any dung beetles, but I did get to meet the residents though, and I look forward to digging through their 💩 very soon!

Southern flannel moth 🌙✨

The Homo sapiens in an agroforestry environment, displaying their natural behaviour of picking through cow pants in the hunt for #DungBeetles... 😉 Another great #DungBeetle Safari on day 2 of the Dung Beetle Conference! #DungBeetleConf

Had a great time at #TheDungBeetleConference hosted by Farm Carbon Toolkit . It was great to meet other dung beetle enthusiasts from all kinds of backgrounds. The highlight was the Yeo Valley agroforestry, and hunting for dung beetles there 🐄🪲🌳

Excited to find Onthophagus joannae during my fieldwork yesterday. More than made up for the bad weather 🌧️🪲

Beautiful day for putting out experimental dung pats for my dung attractiveness study. 🤞the sun brings out lots of lovely dung beetles 🪲

That’s a wrap on this year’s fieldwork: 3 experiments, 296 cow pats and lots of dung beetles IDed. Thank you to the Cornish farmers who let me rummage through their cow 💩. It was lovely to work with people so interested in the project - I couldn’t have done it without you! 🌟🐄

Coming up in October we will be joined by Dr Erica McAlister from Natural History Museum, who will be talking about the fascinating world of fly larvae 🪰 Book your free place here: tickettailor.com/events/tanypte…