Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink!
Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back.
https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb
Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back.
https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb
September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink!
Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back.
https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb
Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back.
https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb
Trichosirocalus horridus, my favorite biocontrol weevil
April 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Trichosirocalus horridus, my favorite biocontrol weevil
Pests are no match for these Indian Runner Ducks at a South African winery.
They act as a form of effective biocontrol to protect crops against destructive bugs without resorting to harmful chemicals.
#nature #ducks #biocontrol #science
They act as a form of effective biocontrol to protect crops against destructive bugs without resorting to harmful chemicals.
#nature #ducks #biocontrol #science
May 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Pests are no match for these Indian Runner Ducks at a South African winery.
They act as a form of effective biocontrol to protect crops against destructive bugs without resorting to harmful chemicals.
#nature #ducks #biocontrol #science
They act as a form of effective biocontrol to protect crops against destructive bugs without resorting to harmful chemicals.
#nature #ducks #biocontrol #science
The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.
Forest Service Cuts Would Devastate Years Of Hawaiʻi Research, Experts Warn
The Forest Service is looking to close its Big Island labs — the only ones of their kind, researchers say, that help protect the Pacific's unique tropical forests.
www.civilbeat.org
April 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.
New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de:
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence
Bacteriophages are increasingly recognized as key players in modulating plant-microbe interactions, including their potential in the biocontrol of plant pathogenic bacteria. In this study, we investig...
www.biorxiv.org
May 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de:
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Prior to tradescantia biocontrol release the average dry weight biomass at these sites was close to 500 g/m2. After agent establishment the average biomass was slightly above 100 g/m2, well below the 200 g/m2 threshold needed for native regeneration." www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications...
More damage, less biomass: monitoring progress of tradescantia biocontrol
Four classical biocontrol agents targeting tradescantia have been present in New Zealand’s environment for up to 14 years.
www.landcareresearch.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Prior to tradescantia biocontrol release the average dry weight biomass at these sites was close to 500 g/m2. After agent establishment the average biomass was slightly above 100 g/m2, well below the 200 g/m2 threshold needed for native regeneration." www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sending beneficial nematodes to the International Space Station "The first biocontrol experiment in space".
Sending beneficial nematodes to the International Space Station "The first biocontrol experiment in space".
Dynamics of entomopathogenic nematode foraging and infectivity in microgravity - npj Microgravity
npj Microgravity - Dynamics of entomopathogenic nematode foraging and infectivity in microgravity
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sending beneficial nematodes to the International Space Station "The first biocontrol experiment in space".
Sending beneficial nematodes to the International Space Station "The first biocontrol experiment in space".
Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota
#MicrobialBiotech by Sara Franco Ortega et al from @frimanscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#MicrobialBiotech by Sara Franco Ortega et al from @frimanscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota
Phage biocontrol success against the major plant pathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum, causal agent of bacterial wilt disease in tomatoes, depends on interactions with rhizosphere microbiome.
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota
#MicrobialBiotech by Sara Franco Ortega et al from @frimanscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#MicrobialBiotech by Sara Franco Ortega et al from @frimanscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Join the biocontrol seminar tomorrow to hear about the fun things we are doing with controlling cells!
March 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Join the biocontrol seminar tomorrow to hear about the fun things we are doing with controlling cells!
I wound up with Dwarves living in bioengineered arcologies.
Mountains with central shafts and clever tunnels that serve as Solar / Thermal chimney generators.
Carefully balanced farm ecosystems, with tiered terrace crops, maintained by biocontrol via domesticated fish and birds.
Mountains with central shafts and clever tunnels that serve as Solar / Thermal chimney generators.
Carefully balanced farm ecosystems, with tiered terrace crops, maintained by biocontrol via domesticated fish and birds.
August 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I wound up with Dwarves living in bioengineered arcologies.
Mountains with central shafts and clever tunnels that serve as Solar / Thermal chimney generators.
Carefully balanced farm ecosystems, with tiered terrace crops, maintained by biocontrol via domesticated fish and birds.
Mountains with central shafts and clever tunnels that serve as Solar / Thermal chimney generators.
Carefully balanced farm ecosystems, with tiered terrace crops, maintained by biocontrol via domesticated fish and birds.
People hate like 3 species of wasp because generations of proximity to humans has made them extremely territorial, while the billion other species are tiny and often adorable and we would be swamped under other arthropods without their vital biocontrol
December 9, 2024 at 12:19 AM
People hate like 3 species of wasp because generations of proximity to humans has made them extremely territorial, while the billion other species are tiny and often adorable and we would be swamped under other arthropods without their vital biocontrol
Sea lamprey for #SundayFishSketch. Learned about potential genetic biocontrol in the #GreatLakes last week.
April 20, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Sea lamprey for #SundayFishSketch. Learned about potential genetic biocontrol in the #GreatLakes last week.
New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications
Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...
www.nature.com
July 29, 2026 at 6:03 AM
New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So many arthropods I could choose, but I'm gonna go with chalcid wasps
Vitally important biocontrol agents, and tiny and adorable and silly
bsky.app/profile/apsc...
Vitally important biocontrol agents, and tiny and adorable and silly
bsky.app/profile/apsc...
Any artists who like creating creatures and need inspiration from time to time, please feel free to peruse my bugs! I would be delighted.
For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤
#InverteFest 🌿🐝🐡
For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤
#InverteFest 🌿🐝🐡
July 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So many arthropods I could choose, but I'm gonna go with chalcid wasps
Vitally important biocontrol agents, and tiny and adorable and silly
bsky.app/profile/apsc...
Vitally important biocontrol agents, and tiny and adorable and silly
bsky.app/profile/apsc...
Striped Ladybird, Myzia oblongoguttata.
On a pine cone.
Norfolk Brecks, yesterday.
www.influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/M...
Found by @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#ladybirds #ukwildlife
On a pine cone.
Norfolk Brecks, yesterday.
www.influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/M...
Found by @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#ladybirds #ukwildlife
June 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Striped Ladybird, Myzia oblongoguttata.
On a pine cone.
Norfolk Brecks, yesterday.
www.influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/M...
Found by @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#ladybirds #ukwildlife
On a pine cone.
Norfolk Brecks, yesterday.
www.influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/M...
Found by @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#ladybirds #ukwildlife
I really loved how much I could build out a society from a few starting points.
For terrace farming - rice works well. Olives. We've got fish and fowl from the biocontrol efforts. Something like goats or llamas as draft and milk animals. Bees, therefor honey.
For terrace farming - rice works well. Olives. We've got fish and fowl from the biocontrol efforts. Something like goats or llamas as draft and milk animals. Bees, therefor honey.
August 4, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I really loved how much I could build out a society from a few starting points.
For terrace farming - rice works well. Olives. We've got fish and fowl from the biocontrol efforts. Something like goats or llamas as draft and milk animals. Bees, therefor honey.
For terrace farming - rice works well. Olives. We've got fish and fowl from the biocontrol efforts. Something like goats or llamas as draft and milk animals. Bees, therefor honey.
Buckthorn is an invasive tree in North America that displaces native plants and threatens natural habitats. New paper just out on the fungi associated with dying buckthorn – next step is testing them for their biocontrol potential www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/16... #fungi #fungifriends #biocontrol
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Buckthorn is an invasive tree in North America that displaces native plants and threatens natural habitats. New paper just out on the fungi associated with dying buckthorn – next step is testing them for their biocontrol potential www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/16... #fungi #fungifriends #biocontrol
January 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What is the impact of phage biocontrol on plant immune responses and bacterial virulence?
Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
@mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social
Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
@mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social
#Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection
✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection.
✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI
@frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection
✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection.
✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI
@frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Phage biocontrol reduces the disease burden and modulates plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence
Erdrich et al. investigated the molecular interplay underlying bacteriophage-based
biocontrol, using natural bacterial viruses for plant protection. They uncovered that
phage-treated plants maintain b...
www.cell.com
June 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM
What is the impact of phage biocontrol on plant immune responses and bacterial virulence?
Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
@mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social
Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
@mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social
Mr Elephant Mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus), a very large good boy. 💙 They don't require a blood feast to reproduce, and their larvae are necessary biocontrol for other mosquito species. Also they're very pretty.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Mr Elephant Mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus), a very large good boy. 💙 They don't require a blood feast to reproduce, and their larvae are necessary biocontrol for other mosquito species. Also they're very pretty.
THIS IS THE BIOCONTROL WE NEED.
PREPARE THE CRABS
PREPARE THE CRABS
I was hoping they were just going to be dumped in Exxon's headquarters and would pinch everyone they found.
September 27, 2023 at 2:36 PM
THIS IS THE BIOCONTROL WE NEED.
PREPARE THE CRABS
PREPARE THE CRABS
Vonda McIntyre brings over her idea of “biocontrol” into her Trek novels. (Biocontrol is conscious and self-trained control over all kinds of bodily functions, including the reproductive system.)
January 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Vonda McIntyre brings over her idea of “biocontrol” into her Trek novels. (Biocontrol is conscious and self-trained control over all kinds of bodily functions, including the reproductive system.)
CRABS
The biocontrol we need? Or the debacle we deserve?
open.substack.com
October 8, 2023 at 5:49 PM
In Costa Rica for a #biocontrol meeting
September 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
In Costa Rica for a #biocontrol meeting
Nugget Classic™
One of the more common encyrtid wasp forms out there: stubby, dark orange, big grey eyes, and stripy little clubbed antennae. Out tirelessly doing important biocontrol work. ❤️
One of the more common encyrtid wasp forms out there: stubby, dark orange, big grey eyes, and stripy little clubbed antennae. Out tirelessly doing important biocontrol work. ❤️
May 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Nugget Classic™
One of the more common encyrtid wasp forms out there: stubby, dark orange, big grey eyes, and stripy little clubbed antennae. Out tirelessly doing important biocontrol work. ❤️
One of the more common encyrtid wasp forms out there: stubby, dark orange, big grey eyes, and stripy little clubbed antennae. Out tirelessly doing important biocontrol work. ❤️