Community #ecologist studying #insects under #globalchange, with a special focus on #landuse and #climatechange.🦋 🐞🐄 🚜 🌲 🌞 Spatial approaches, time-series analyses, functional ecology, interaction networks.
Based at #Agroscope in Switzerland🇨🇭
Hobby #macro photographer 📷 🕷️
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One of my favorite ant words: dichthadiigyn.
Dichthadiigyn queen ant has a body type with two phases: physogastric & mobile. This is a characteristic of army ants that evolved multiple times!
Army ants stay on the move until they find a rich hunting area. Then the queen settles down & gets too huge to walk for a few weeks. She lays thousands of eggs, the workers from the last cycle emerge. Then she slims down enough to run again with her half a million daughters!
A remarkable transformation!
The inflated beetle, Cysteodemus, is one of the most recognizeable insects of the southwestern deserts. Larvae are parasites of soil-nesting bees. Anza Borrego, California.
New paper out: #trait composition of #carabid #beetle and #spider communities has changed across the past 40 years and rate of change is related to #landuse
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.14062
Found today (out since 2022) 😅
'European Red List of Insect Taxonomists'
#Entomology #Insects #Taxonomy #Critters #Biology #EU #Europe #SoilBiodiversity
Why are insects attracted to artificial light?
Scientists say they finally have an answer, thanks to a chance observation and hundreds of hours of video footage.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/millennia-old-mystery-about-insects-and-light-at-night-gets-a-new-explanation/ #insects #museums
@FloridaMuseum
At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, Yash Sondhi and a small team of international scientists switched on a light and waited. Soon, insects big and small descended out of the darkness. Moths with spots like unblinking eyes on each wing. Shiny armored beetles. Flies. Once, even a praying mantis.
New paper out in Ecography. Do you want to know about the seasonal and spatial aspects of Odonata community assembly in three regions of Europe. An awesome collaboration led by Roberto Novella-Fernandez !
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.06918
Michal Olšiak, Czech sculptor, did it again. This time, giant sculptures of insects. Fascinating exhibition, wish I could go there.
Ants, flies, weevils, beetles, and more. The gallery:
(If a Czech native speaker could translate his wikipedia page to English or French or Spanish, that would be greatly appreciated: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Ol%C5%A1iak )
Celou dekádu. Tak dlouho pracoval výtvarník Michal Olšiak na obřích modelech hmyzu, které jsou do konce ledna k vidění v Brně na výstavě s názvem MegaBrouci. Zkoumání malých tvorů mu připomínalo plavbu vesmírem. „Čím více si je člověk pod lupou přibližuje, tím dál se dostává. Objevujete stále nové detaily. Hmyz mě naprosto okouzlil,“ říká Olšiak.
myrmepropagandist
Alex Wild
Plague Poems
Michael ヘビ Steinwandter
Global Museum
Jana Petermann
Loïc Chalmandrier
Albert Cardona
Entomological Soc. of America