💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐍🐊 Biologists in #Florida tracked 40 male "scout #snakes" using radio telemetry to locate breeding females, removing 177 invasive Burmese #pythons weighing a combined 8,080 lbs (3,665 kg) from #Collier County.

This targeted approach stopped roughly 4,100 unhatched python #eggs from hatching and further damaging the delicate #Everglades food web.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/record-python-removal-florida/

#invasivespecies #conservation #wildlife #ecology #swamp #snakes #biology #colliercounty #habitats #predators #wetlands #radiotelemetry

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

Very happy to announce my submission to the University of Guelph research photo contest "liquid gold" was a winner in the faculty/staff category AND community choice!

This photo shows a Bombus impatiens (common eastern bumble bee) queen with a radio tag attached

#bumblebees #bumblebee #bees #bee #QueenBee #RadioTag #RadioTelemetry #science #ScienceMastodon #ecology #research #fieldwork #insects #pollinators

Made another tiktok of some behind the scenes photos of us radio tagging bumble bees! The process of attaching tags take a lot of focus so unfortunately we don't have a ton of footage

https://www.tiktok.com/@bumblebeehaviour/video/7171082484262669574?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7148150010307511814

#bumblebees #RadioTelemetry

Some "behind the scenes" photos of us setting up to radio tag bumble bees

https://www.tiktok.com/@bumblebeehaviour/video/7168484128457772293?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7148150010307511814

#bumblebees #bumblebee #bees #fieldwork #science #ScienceMastodon #ecology #research #postdoc #RadioTelemetry #insects #entomology