Very excited to launch our new citizen science project #BeetlesVsStones It will help map the distribution of invertebrates 🪲🪱🕷️on #SouthGeorgia In cooperation with @PolarCitSci @Darwin_Defra

Non-native species are likely to invade the pristine #Antarctic region as global warming results in growing ice-free areas, a study by #QUT researchers has found fal.cn/3u4gb Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future antarctica.gov.au British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Jasmine Lee Justine Shaw #Sustainability #QUTScience

Biological Invasions on South Georgia Our guidebook editor Paul Clammer is just back from South Georgia: an amazing place of course, but penguins aside he was thrilled to take part in the new #BeetlesVsStones citizen science project, mapping invertebrates & looking for invasive species. Great fun!

Roots from our climate chamber experiment. Tedious to extract but beautiful! 🌱 Left: Phleum alpinum, Right: Taraxacum officinale

Good bye magellanic #Penguins from the #FalklandIslands in a few days, I will sail to #SouthGeorgia for an exciting second field season! @Darwin_Defra

Just arrived to #southgeorgia our first mission is to retrieves ASICS - Cold region invasions loggers. Sometimes very well hidden! @darwin_defra

Thanks Hapag-Lloyd Cruises for the fantastic help to our scientific project! Vielen dank Hapag-Lloyd Cruises für die fantastisch Hilfe zu unserem Forschungsprojekt! #hanseaticspirit

Two weeks of field work 🪲🧪 on #southgeorgia on this table…and a bit of whaling history!

In front of the #lab at King Edward Point: blond fur #seal puppie and a scenic view of #southgeorgia 😎 British Antarctic Survey 🐧

A fantastic week on Barff peninsula with perfect conditions for field work!

Quite a challenge to find our insect traps among the snow… #southgeorgia

#InvertsOnSG 1 - One of the two invasive beetles - Merizodus soledadinus - introduced from South America on #SouthGeorgia We are currently gathering data about its distribution, ecology and impact on native species!

Thursday night talk at King Edward Point talking about inverts 🪰🕷🪱 on #southgeorgia and stories from six weeks of intense fieldwork! British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Government SGSSI

Last day of field work around Glacier Col ❄️ Good bye #SouthGeorgia and thanks Government SGSSI and British Antarctic Survey 🐧 for your support!

Fantastic opportunity to talk about our scientific hunt for beetles across #SouthGeorgia to the passengers of the National Geographic explorer! @Darwin_defra

Beetle surveys as part of the #BeetlesVsStones project on South Georgia have produced some great finds inc a stunning emerald Pillbeetle (Chalciosphaerium sp), native Hydromedion sparsutum & the invasive Trechisibus antarcticus. The pillbeetle is covered in course hairs

Very pleased to talk to FITV about the invasive 🪲🐞 that we found on #SouthGeorgia fitv.co.fk/falklands-in-f… 10.20 -> 13.30

Check out our placement opportunity to work on invasive carabids on sub-antarctic islands at Durham BioSciences !

First record of the introduced ladybird beetle, Coccinella undecimpunctata Linnaeus (1758), on South Georgia (sub‐Antarctic) - Tichit - 2023 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…