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carolannie.bsky.social
This is another reminder to leave the leaves!
#AutumnLeaces #InsectConservation #NaturalHistory #Gardening #GiftLink
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Why Leaving the Leaves Is Better for Your Yard
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October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
blackdogbirder.bsky.social
A Bordered Brown Lacewing today at St Cyrus, Aberdeenshire - in exact same spot as in 2020, but none elsewhere on the site in a couple hour search.

#insectconservation
@naturescot.bsky.social
#speciesontheedge
A Bordered Brown Lacewing, side on view, on a Wood Sage leaf.
July 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
manusaunders.bsky.social
I often think about how much data on insect population dynamics is never recorded... Looks like a good year for many insect pops around eastern Aus. Getting this from personal obs, anecdotal reports from ecologists collecting field data on other things, and FB gardening groups! #insectconservation
November 27, 2024 at 4:06 AM
manusaunders.bsky.social
Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture #InsectConservation 🌏🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly in a flowering prairie strip adjacent to cropfields
October 23, 2023 at 10:46 AM
abilutangwa.bsky.social
🐝 Remember, it's not just bees that need our help! Many insects play crucial roles in our ecosystems. Protecting their habitats is vital for a balanced environment. #InsectConservation #BeeCrisis
May 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
manusaunders.bsky.social
Ecology of most insects in urban areas is largely unexplored. Our editorial for this #urbanecology Insect Conservation and Diversity SI uses a structured literature search to frame the contents and highlight research priorities #insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 14, 2024 at 6:59 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Soutinho et al. Conserving saproxylic flagship species by complementing 150 years of natural history with citizen science data—the case of the #StagBeetles ( #Lucanidae, #Coleoptera) of Portugal doi.org/10.1007/s105... #Beetle #Beetles #Biodiversity #InsectConservation
Lucanid species of Portugal with scale reference (Illustrations by ©Davina Falcão)
April 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Luiselli et al. Red Listing African Goliath Beetles: Assessing Threats and Conservation Needs doi.org/10.1111/aje.... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #InsectConservation
FIGURE 1 | Silhouettes of the males of some of the Goliathus species: (a and b) Goliathus goliatus, (c) Goliathus g. meleagris, (d) Goliathus orientalis usambarensis, (e) Goliathus regius, (f) Goliathus cacicus and (g) hybrid Goliathus regius × Goliathus cacicus. Artwork by Marko Steffensen.
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Glotov et al. Rare And Endangered #RoveBeetles of Ukraine: Emus Hirtus Linnaeus, 1758 (#Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae). doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #InsectConservation
June 25, 2024 at 12:43 PM
manusaunders.bsky.social
The Ecology & Conservation of Urban Insects SI, now published! A great set of papers covering a range of taxa and urban locations around the world! #urbanecology #insectconservation 🌏🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524598...
Journal issue cover for the Special Issue featuring a large insect hotel wall in front of a high-intensity urban apartment block.
March 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
biologicalrecording.co.uk
🐝 Uncover the Hidden World of Social Wasps!

Join Dr @tonymadgwick.bsky.social on 12 June 2025 for a deep dive into social wasps—from Common Wasp to Yellow-legged Hornet. 🌍 🧪

🎓 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1130831751...

🌿 #Entomology #Biodiversity #Pollination #InsectConservation
Social Wasps of the UK
Learn about the social wasps (family Vespidae) found in the UK with Dr Tony Madgwick.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
royentsoc.bsky.social
For #WorldWildlifeConservationDay, we’re celebrating the #endangered #LargeBlue butterfly, once declared extinct but now recovering thanks to dedicated #conservation and habitat protection 🦋🌍

Explore how our work champions #InsectConservation 🔽

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#SaveWildlife #ProtectOurPlanet
Conservation science at the RES
Insect Conservation team publish new data on endangered Large blue butterfly
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December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
leibnizlib.bsky.social
#LIBresearch A year-long study across 21 protected areas in Germany, supported by #citizenscientists, uncovered over 14,000 #arthropod species. Findings show high regional diversity, with 33% found only in specific areas, and highlight the need for focused #insectconservation efforts: t1p.de/m4dk9
Identifying conservation hotspots and assessing species commonness and rarity: Baseline arthropod diversity in German nature reserves via national Malaise trap monitoring
Conducted a year-long Malaise trap monitoring study across Germany, revealing 14,445 OTUs, including 8,589 assigned species, highlighting extensive small-scale and largely undescribed diversity. Ide...
t1p.de
April 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
respublications.bsky.social
Discover what's in the March issue of #RESInsectConsDiv
Volume 18, Issue 2

See the full list of articles🔽
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@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
#entomology #insects #InsectDiversity #InsectConservation
Cover image of Insect Conservation and Diversity Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2025
April 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
manusaunders.bsky.social
Removing non-crop flowers within orchards promotes the decline of pollinators, not their conservation: A comment on McDougall et al. (2021) #insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Two comparison images showing an orchard with thick flowering ground cover and a different orchard with bare ground between trees
October 25, 2023 at 10:17 AM
manusaunders.bsky.social
New blog: It matters what narratives we use to engage with science. Misinformation engages us with a fantasy. #AcademicSky #SciComm #InsectConservation ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2026/07/10/t...
The windscreen phenomenon is misinformation
I’ve written here and here about how the flawed windscreen phenomenon is not scientifically testable. It’s a popular social media anecdote, but not actually an accurate measure of insect decline. A…
ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
July 10, 2026 at 12:56 PM
manusaunders.bsky.social
New blog: AI has huge potential for insect research. But on social media, does it help or hinder #scicomm? #insectconservation #biodiversity 🌏🧪 ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2024/02/23/a...
AI and Insect SciComm
AI is here (and has been for a while). It provides hope and potential solutions to many scientific problems, but also raises many ethical problems that can’t be ignored. For insect biodiversity and co...
ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
February 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
zslofficial.bsky.social
“They’re the little things that run the world.”

ZSL’s Dr Charlie Outhwaite studies insect biodiversity in our Institute of Zoology, and how AI and data science can protect the species we depend on.

📍Meet Charlie in #HumansOfZSL

#ZSL #ProtectingSpecies #CreatingChange #InsectConservation
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
planetsavingsteps.bsky.social
The Xerces Society has a handy guide for judging if it's still too early to start yard cleanup and if you should wait a bit to protect pollinators: xerces.org/blog/dont-sp...

#pollinators #gardenwork #rewilding #protectpollinators #insectconservation #yardcleanup
March 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
kunjanjoshi.bsky.social
My goal is to understand and protect insect diversity while strengthening resilient agriculture.
🔍 If you know of labs or PhD openings, I’d love to connect! #phd #pollinator #agroecology #insectconservation
September 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
royentsoc.bsky.social
Just three days left to double your impact for #InsectConservation 🦋

Watch the full interview between RES Conservation Project Manager, David Simcox and @GlosWildlife.bsky.social Land Manager, Grove Sykes, at joint-owned Daneway Banks.

Watch the interview and donate today 🔽
Interview: Glos Wildlife Trust Land Manager and RES Conservation Project Manager at Daneway Banks
An interview between Gloucester Wildlife Trust Land Manager, Grove Sykes, and RES Conservation Project Manager, David Simcox, on site at Daneway Banks SSSI, ...
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April 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
blackdogbirder.bsky.social
Tuesday was the 200-year anniversary of James Charles Dale catching the UK's first recorded Bordered Brown Lacewing. We marked the day by finding six in a small area by Stonehaven War Memorial.

Bottlenose Dolphins joined the celebration by splashing around offshore.

#entomology #insectconservation
A Bordered Brown Lacewing hanging upside down on a Wood Sage leaf. A Bordered Brown Lacewing on the flowers towards end of a Wood Sage stem. Two Bottlenose Dolphins leaping.
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
moreirapinhaltc.bsky.social
Learning new tricks!
Back from holidays and hoping to help visually explain our Portuguese national pollinator checklist's limitations and plans for our operational reference layer for the Portuguese Pollinator Monitoring Scheme 🐝🪰🦋

#Pollinators #DataViz #Entomology #Monitoring #InsectConservation
August 20, 2026 at 7:12 PM