Naming species after famous people always gets good press. What is tricky is when that famous person becomes notorious, Caitlin Talbot tells “The Intelligence” econ.st/3ydqqWa

Wax worm saliva rapidly breaks down plastic bags, scientists discover

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Slow to tweet this week but now into day 2 of Biology & Taxonomy of insects with the Harper Adams Entomology MSc group - their first ento module of the year. New for them and new for me! At Harper that is, I'm an entomologist I swear...

Please enjoy these Sabethes albiprivus mosquitoes flying over artificial oviposition sites like little drones and occasionally shooting eggs down into the water below. From the colony at Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Insects will struggle to keep pace with global temperature rise – which could be bad news for humans theconversation.com/insects-will-s…. Check out this The Conversation article by Hester Weaving on our recent study!

I am so excited to have started as a PhD student with Teagasc and Harper Adams University.

This project aims to develop a decision support tool to aid the management of aphids in cereal crops

'Combined Elevation of Temperature and CO2 Impacts the Production and Sugar Composition of Aphid Honeydew'
=> Journal of Chemical Ecology : link.springer.com/article/10.100…
International Society of Chemical Ecology

Anyone work with Macrosiphum euphorbiae? We NEED some!

CTP-SAI-048: To me, to you - developing a push-pull system for sustainable management of aphid pests in seed and ware potato crops
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The next Harper Adams University #OpenDays are on 8 October and 12 November 2022. Come see how you can make a difference to #planetaryhealth #animalhealth and #humanhealth . See how we are working to #feedtheworld #sustainably #BookNow harper-adams.ac.uk/events/2467/un…

Scrollytelling piece explaining stats. Great:

Interested in linkages between ecosystem function and carbon, water, and energy fluxes? Check out this new data set: High resolution phenology from Planetscope imagery (3.5 m) at 104 Ameriflux and NEON sites. Pretty cool! nature.com/articles/s4159… NEON FLUXNET_Coop @Planet

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12 fully funded 4-year #PhD #studentships .
Answer big questions, while working with #industry and top #researchers !
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Harvest has delineated and mapped cropland across all of Ukraine. This has allowed us to monitor planting, crop condition, and harvest progress within the country; compare to previous years; and estimate upcoming production.
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'Are experiment sample sizes adequate to detect biologically important interactions between multiple stressors?'

New #OpenAccess Viewpoint in Ecology and Evolution implies that many non-null stressor-pair interactions are missed. Discover more ➡️ ow.ly/lz1l50KWcPR

Landscape crop diversity the previous year builds predator assemblages - more rove beetles in landscapes with large fields - no effect on spiders.

New report by Chloë Raderschall Ola Lundin Guillermo Aguilera Sandra Lindström Riccardo Bommarco

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Whenever I see plans to reduce reduce pesticides I have the same question - reduce what? pounds? applications? 'use' is too vague, 'impacts' is a direction I can go along with. #aginnovation #farm2fork

Good to stumble across a familiar name in Farmers Weekly letters page Julian Little Focusing on managing the impact of pesticides is the important goal, rather than fixating on an arbitrary reduction number ✅ Pesticides are for a purpose! #Farm2Fork #foodsecurity