Grooming behavior of bees is the motto of Vanessa Marcelo (Vini Brito lab, now in Mario Vallejo-Marin lab) talk titled “Grooming behavior and stigma position alter the mating network between plant individuals” #ECOFLOR2024

We have an exciting calendar of events coming up in 2024, covering key topics across #InsectScience & more will be announced soon! Be sure to join the Society before registering, members have access to #discounted registration fees for all our #events. royensoc.co.uk/events

Stop the genocide in Gaza.

Reminder that Dr Emine Celiker and I will be hosting a session at SEB! Submit an abstract by 8 March through the link (sebiology.org) and select: 'A5 - Interdisciplinary approaches in bioacoustics: cells, behaviour and mechanics' Hope to see you there!

An amazing illustration of our latest #fossil orthoptera findings by Valentino Lasso !! 🦗 Read the open access paper here... InsectEars Current Biology #paleoart #PALEOagainstAI tinyurl.com/25zcksyw

Bumblebees ✅ Equipment ✅ Let the work beegin! 🌻🐝🌼🐝 Dr Charlie Woodrow Mario Vallejo-Marin Guadalupe Sepulveda

This is an especially strong bioluminescent "spew" event from Heterocarpus ensifer, so much so that my student Katie Thomas called it "flamethrower shrimp". while much bioluminescence is dim and hard to photograph, the emissions from this animal were nearly always stunning.

Phylogeny of Rhaphidophoridae! nature.com/articles/s4200…

New paper on the string-pulling bumblebees now out in Insect Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Israel bombs Rafah, home to 1.7 million displaced people, majority children. Israel is a blood thirsty out of control monster, aided and abetted at every turn by a weak and hypocritical West. Never ever forget these crimes and never forget every one of its inhumane sponsors.

And of course I've only just noticed the typo in the tweet - deadline is 17th May (Friday), not today! Please RT, will be a really exciting PhD project :)

I’m so excited! My first-first author paper AND the first chapter of my PhD is now out in Current Biology : ‘Translocated wild birds are predisposed to learn songs of their ancestral population’: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… 1/📖 Read on for a short description:

Beelieve it or not, this blue bee is the real deal! 🐝 Meet the blue carpenter bee. Unlike honeybees, this critter doesn’t live in large hives, but instead spends most of its time alone. Like other bee species, it’s an important pollinator.

BREAKING : The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza. EXTERMINATION. Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know. “Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..” —The UN Human Rights Council

Very happy to have these projects approved! Lots of cool work to come! 🐝🐝

The arctic bumblebee team back from a very successful few weeks of fieldwork! 🐝🏔️ INSECT Lab SU Guadalupe Sepulveda Samyuktha Rajan

An update on insect declines, especially in the UK, from the The Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/ar… We have not reached 2024's spring over here in Australia, but recent years have not looked encouraging.

Very happy to see our recent paper on bee biting and buzz pollination covered in Science Magazine. HFSP Dr Charlie Woodrow science.org/content/articl…

A beautiful book put together by the RES and experts within the RES community! Be sure to check it out!🦋🐝🦗🦟