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Agnes Kreiling

@agneskreiling.bsky.social
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Entomologist at Faroe Islands National Museum. Diptera. Coleoptera. And everything else that comes crawling my way.

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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ten out of our 20 monitoring plots are located in areas without sheep grazing. But sometimes a sheep manages to jump a fence. This one is hanging out right on the plot - after having headbutted the temperature logger for a while. #FaroeEcosystemMonitoring #FEM #Tjóðsavnið #sheep
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research at “the cutest Research Station in the world”? Koltur Research Station is part of POLARIN Transnational Access which funds transport and accommodation for researchers: eu-polarin.eu/transnationa... We are especially interested in projects measuring above-ground biomass on the island.
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MAMBO Project @mambo-project.eu · 25/06/2026
🐝 This #InsectWeek, we're sharing two tools from the #MAMBO project that are changing how we monitor insects in the field. 🌙 Light camera traps for nocturnal pollinators ☀️ Insect camera traps for diurnal pollinators 🔗 Explore all MAMBO-derived tools: www.mambo-project.eu/technologies
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Asunción de los Rios @asundelosriosbsky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sampling in Koltur (Feroe Islands) to study soil microbial and microfauna diversity in that Island thanks to EU-Polarin and Faroe Islands National Museum (Tjóõsavniô). #PolarMelt #SoilDrivers @microbiomacsic.bsky.social. @mncn-csic.bsky.social @agneskreiling.bsky.social @sarasanchezmo.bsky.social
Sampling in Koltur
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Empis lucidus (Empididae) is a northerly species associated with higher altitudes. Not a common sight in the Faroes, but yesterday I found plenty of them in the mountains on Kalsoy. #Tjóðsavnið #Diptera #FaroeEcosystemMonitoring @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I just love chironomid pupal exuviae! So much fun to find new species to add to the Faroese checklist. #Tjóðsavnið #Biodiversity #Monitoring #Chironomidae
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Freshwater monitoring reveals unknown midge diversity — Tjóðsavnið
Freshwater monitoring has added several new records of non-biting midges (Chironomidae) to the Faroese checklist. At least seven new species records have been made based on pupal exuviae collected fro...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The collections at @nhm-london.bsky.social are full of glorious specimens esp the Flies. But they also come with lots of extra information Roger Crosskey wrote down his feelings 50 years ago about this species complex - his frustration evident @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The shiny metallic blue beetle Necrobia rufipes was one of the many new insect records for the Faroes in 2025. #BlueBugs #Tjóðsavnið #Coleoptera
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IslandBiologyJAPAN @islandbiologyjapan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Island Biology 2026 Conference 2–6 Nov. 2026 ホームページ公開しました! #IB2026 We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website! 2–6 Nov. 2026 sites.google.com/view/island-... #IB2026
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Island Biology 2026
Why Japan?
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Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today, at the Changing Currents conference organised by Granskingarráðið, @agneskreiling.bsky.social presented three projects which were centered around Koltur Research Station: the Baseline Project (www.tjodsavnid.fo/natturan-i-k...) the terrestrial ecosystem monitoring project and #LIFEPLAN).
Agnes Kreiling giving a presentation
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Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Just ONE WEEK until #ECN2025! 🪲 Head to the website to check out the full program: ecnweb.net/welcome/meet... This year’s program cover features a beautiful Rain beetle (Pleocoma sp.). Photograph courtesy of @ageofarthropods.bsky.social & the Purdue Entomological Research Collection.
Program cover for the 2025 Entomological Collections Network meeting, feature a beautifully fluffy Pleocoma specimen. Meeting taking place November 8-9, in Portland, Oregon.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I will be talking about our projects at #Koltur Research Station on 4th of December in Copenhagen. The one-day conference is free of charge. More information and registration here: www.gransking.fo/en/resources...
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Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The nightlife here in France is quite something! #entomology (since there is a Lepidoptera flying by?) #trailcam #cameratrap #wildboar @agneskreiling.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A badger checking out our #cameratrap in Southern France.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New beetle record for Europe: Sthereus ptinoides. Identified based on specimens in the entomological collection at #Tjóðsavnið. Read the story of the discovery here: ojs.setur.fo/index.php/fr... @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social Photo: Björn Hjaltason
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
First (but hopefully not last) scientific publication on our species inventory on #Koltur came out today. Big thanks to all our collaborators! Publicly available under: ojs.setur.fo/index.php/fr... #Tjóðsavnið #Biodiversity #Monitoring @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @kolbrunih.bsky.social
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The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#LiteratureNotice Chen et al. Regional selection pressure and heterogeneous transitions shape diverse colour pattern in Pachyrhynchus weevils ( #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) Open Access doi.org/10.1093/zool... #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils #Mimicry
Figure 1.Six categories of dorsal pattern on elytra of Pachyrhynchus.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Always an adventure visiting our more inaccessible monitoring plots on the Northern side of #Koltur. #TodaysOffice #Tjóðsavnið @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Elodes pseudominuta is one of the species which is more common on #Koltur than expected. We find it during July among mosses in the vicinity of small streams. #Tjóðsavnið #Coleoptera
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Me and my colleagues at #Tjóðsavnið have studied the island #Koltur since 2019. Our species checklist is now publicly available on @gbif.org. And the first publication is on the way... www.gbif.org/dataset/a6fa... @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social @kolbrunih.bsky.social
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NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here are two spreads to tempt you from the Dung Flies Scathophagidae pages of our #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z (maps to be done) for publication this autumn. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Cutest field assistant we ever had. #Tjóðsavnið #monitoring #EcologistFamily @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social
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Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Me and @agneskreiling.bsky.social have seen a lot of cool species while on vacation in #Spain: #chamalaeon, #flamingo, #octopus and a huge #robberfly. It has been a treat visiting @Theresahenke.bsky.social and hear about her work on #bioinvasions.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Flower visitation observations in sunny weather! Lots of #Diptera on Caltha palustris outside my office. #Tjóðsavnið #monitoring
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We choose the worst possible day to start #fieldwork for lake #monitoring - cold wind, sleet, snow and rain... but nevertheless plenty of #Chironomidae pupal exuviae around! #Tjóðsavnið @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social
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Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The New Zealand flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus) has decimated #Earthworm populations in the #Faroes. It probably was introduced by people who were importing non-native trees in the 1980'ies. This one I found in our garden, close to our compost heap where there are no Earthworms. #ias
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Merops Field Centre @meropsfieldcentre.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Day 2 with Neuchâtel and we’ve been exploring the garrigue. This is a Mediterranean scrubland habitat based on limestone soils. We found specialist plants, including orchids. Although small, one of our highlights was finding the dung beetle 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 rolling its balls of dung.
Fabrizio holding out a plant so that listening students can understand its features. Three students stand to the side, listening.The top of a limestone platform in the garrigue. The oak trees are bare of leaves, and mosses and low-lying plants cover the limestone with green foliage.Students leaning down to take photos of orchids. The orchids are not yet open, but have pointed, dark flower buds. A dung beetle, 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪, rolling a ball of dung.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New Chironomidae record for the Faroes: Metriocnemus carmencitabertarum. Found as pupal exuviae in a rainwater-filled bassin in the garden of my in-laws. www.tjodsavnid.fo/news-in-engl...
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 23/02/2025
long distance relationship
now with shading
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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The concept of the “extinction of experience” has been used to describe the dwindling human connection with nature, often applied to the general public. But ecologists themselves are not immune. Across universities and research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat. mongabay.cc/w0Tc9L
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Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.
Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of damp ...
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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often.
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Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Setting up this year's #LIFEPLAN site, on #Koltur.
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This Carabus hispanus was the entomological highlight during our trip to southern France in 2024 - perfect for #BlueMonday! #BlueBugs @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social
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Theresa Henke @theresahenke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The time has come 🤓🇮🇸🐟 I will be defending my PhD on Thursday at 13 GMT. If you want to hear me talk about flounder (once again) and all the fun things I did over the past five years, tune in for the life stream: eu01web.zoom.us/j/67667648639 @fishiceland.bsky.social
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Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Very happy about this publication on Faroese Diapriidae. Recent material examined was collected during our species inventory on the island #Koltur.
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