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willleohawkes.bsky.social
🪰🐝Doctor of Insect Migration🦋🐞 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cofiwch y pethau bach 🇨🇭Post Doc at Vogelwarte in Switzerland ⛰️Most content up a mountain
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One of the main things that inspired me to become an entomologist was watching the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano & specifically @georgemcgavin.bsky.social standing on the volcano edge surrounded by the most wondrous moths! I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x

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Indeed - insect research is measurably hampered by the lack of expert help in identifying specimens (I could have published multiple additional papers if it were available). We will have even less knowledge of what we are losing.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is so ridiculous. Taxonomists are perhaps the most important people in entomological studies, as without knowing what the animals are, how can you do the research? Taxonomists are endangered enough as it is.

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Our first stop during our Bornean adventure was the Trusmadi Entomology camp a Singapore-sized region of secondary forest complete with a camp specifically set up for insects - see drone photo of the camp & the amount of forest around. We had messaged before arrival & this really paid off... 1/x

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My family and I have just got back from the most amazing trip to Borneo. I had always hoped to see one of these Rafflesia flowers, & we had the incredible luck to find one flowering nearby! 'Rafflesia' is steeped in colonialism, being named after Stamford Raffles, a Dutch East Indies governor. 1/x

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Most people don't think of wasps being aquatic, but there are definitely some that exist, such as Agriotypus sp. They are parasitoids of Trichoptera pupae and pre-pupae. #Agriotypus #Ichneumonidae

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

World's biggest bees (Megachile pluto & a Xylocopa drawer), mega Mydas flies, and Gorilla gazing at the @morethanadodo.bsky.social museum in Oxford today.

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Super interesting! Can’t wait to read this paper. Hoverflies are beneficial insects for human agriculture, and their impact is over continental scales. Insect migration is dominated by winds, which will change unpredictably with the climate. That’s bad news if you like to eat. 🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Some of the individuals used in this research were collected at @kneppwilding.bsky.social during the @opwallscience.bsky.social field course. Another great example of migration research aided by collaboration

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Female hoverflies are WAY better than males at migrating! At the beginning of their 1000km+ migrations in Denmark the sex ratios are 50:50, but by the time they get to Spain it is 90% female! On flight sims females flew 9x further and have better immunity and lifespan! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

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Over 60 webinars in, which entoLIVEs have proven most popular? It seems that 🐝subjects attract the most live attendees, but less popular groups do better in the long-run. Interesting. #entomology #invertebrates #SciComms Catch up on previous webinars here: biologicalrecording.co.uk/category/ent...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

New podcast out! 🌿 So good to meet up with @willleohawkes.bsky.social in the wonderful Ceunant Llennyrch #woodland last week to record this one, all about the amazing #celticrainforest habitat and one character in particular that adorn these gnarled, wizened woods. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMK...

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Ben (@bardseyben.bsky.social) and I met up a few days ago to record a new episode of our podcast at Caenant Llenerch, an Atlantic rainforest that is perhaps one of the most important sites of Welsh mythological history... Listen here to The Fern with Many Feet: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/wil...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Christmas morning on top of Cader Bewyn with Eira

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Wild and exciting PhD available. #birds, #ornithology, #museums, #science

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🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost! Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Priority areas: ‘Responding to anthropogenic change’ ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Harmonic radar tags on fruitflies!! It won't be long until we're able to track flies on their longer distance migration routes!

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

One morning after strong winds from the Sahara to the south, an estimated one MILLION rush veneer (Nomophila noctuella) moths arrived to the tip of the Karpaz peninsula of Cyprus. All on their northward migration. #insectmigration Full paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

submitted 82 days ago • 38 comments

🐝 Limestone Quarries & Wild Bees A study from @britishecolsoc.bsky.social finds abandoned quarries can be vital habitats for 114 bee species, including 35 endangered ones, when managed well. Connectivity & floral diversity are key. 🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SciComm 🧪

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

1 of 5 : the second of our books on UK spiders is this rather scarce title published in the mid-1860s and is the first written by a female author

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments