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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📢 Two weeks left to submit a Letter of Intent to the #RESAgForestEnt Special Issue on environmental stressors as drivers of insect population and community dynamics. More info here ⬇️ buff.ly/EsvB0JO Deadline: 30 June 2026⏰ @royentsoc.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📢 Approaches in Entomology, our new #OpenAccess journal, is open for submissions! 🎉 It will publish innovative & exciting advances to methods & techniques, including ethics and philosophies, across the breadth of entomology. 🔬 Learn more and submit your work here! ⬇️ buff.ly/ZwzAiMK #EntoMethods

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Sad to learn of the death of Angheluță Vădineanu, University of Bucharest. He was a strong supporter of @alterneteurope.bsky.social from the start and contributing much else, notably to nature conservation in the Danube Delta: bio.unibuc.ro/wp-content/u... #biodiversity #conservation

Angheluță Vădineanu talking to a colleague outside, forest in background.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I cannot recommend this summer school highly enough. Gorgeous mountain village-setting, wine, food, cheese, more wine, silly games, great field excursions and dancing until the small hours. Oh, and some great learning too, as a bonus :) 🧀🍷⛰️

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy" - applications open for the 20th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq open until April 20th: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool...

A group of students sitting by a lake, listening to presentations from people working in the area, mountains just visible behind the trees along the lake.

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them! I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion #MendTheGap #SpringlineProject Book your free ticket here: cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e... #WaspLove

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Dr Melissa Marselle @melissamarselle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Highly recommend applying for this. An amazing experience in an outstanding location

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Applications for this year’s Alternet summer school open until the end of April: Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/ supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social and taking place in Peyresq, a mountain village in the Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France 🧪

Alternet summer school students and tutors in discussion in breakout groups sitting outside around the tables also used for lunch, surrounded by trees and other vegetation that are found around the mountain village of Peyresq.

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

📢#RESAgForestEnt has a brand new May issue out See what's published in Agricultural & Forest Entomology Volume 27, Issue 2🔽 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563/2025/27/2 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

Cover image of: Agricultural and Forest Entomology Volume 27, Issue 2

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy": this year's @alterneteurope.bsky.social summer school supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social is open for applicants from postgraduate students and early career researchers, deadline 30th April: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool... 1/2

Alternet summer school students on field trip at Lac d'Allos, the lake and partly tree-covered mountains in the background.

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Our Feb 2025 issue of Agricultural & Forest Entomology, @AFEntomology Vol 27 Issue 1, is a Special Issue: Advances in Insect #Biomonitoring for Agriculture & Forestry 🌳🌾 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563... @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

Cover image of Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 1
Special Issue: Advances in Insect Biomonitoring for Agriculture and Forestry, February 2025

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Dr Jess Stokes @jess-stokes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🐝 UK insect researchers, we need your input 🦋 The RES is gathering insights on your experiences with #InsectEthics applications. Whether you engage in the process or not, your feedback matters! 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... #Entomology #ResearchSurvey

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RES Great Welfare Survey 2025 - Royal Entomological Society

Insect Research Practices and Ethics in the UK Share Your Experience on Ethics Applications Are you a researcher working with insects? We need your insights! The Royal Entomological Society is conduct...

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The Advances in Insect Biomonitoring for Agriculture and Forestry Special Issue includes this must watch/read paper on ultra high-speed photography of aphid flight, link to a video at the start: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #biodiversity #monitoring @royentsoc.bsky.social 🧪

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Santiago Masagué et al. demonstrate the importance of considering multiple sensory perspectives when designing monitoring methods. By altering the visual cues associated with pheromone lures for an invasive forest wasp, capture frequency was increased. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Ayman Asiri et al. review the potential for semiochemical analysis for the detection of insect diseases, focusing on the context of pollinators. They discuss recent advances that allow in-field surveillance, potential applications and future prospects. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda et al. review the increasing adoption of camera trapping for detecting insect predator-prey interactions. They discuss the equipment used, other parameters and considerations, guidance for new adopters and future advances likely to come soon. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

@bensjhawthorne.bsky.social et al. review the integration of DNA metabarcoding with traditional insect monitoring methods in agriculture. Molecular analysis presents many distinct benefits, but also some challenges that require careful consideration and expertise. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

@mukilansuresh.bsky.social et al. discuss the potential for computer vision and deep learning for identification of trapped insects, and the integration of DNA metabarcoding for cross-validation, facilitating construction of ecological networks. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My co-authors and I propose the need for year-round monitoring of biocontrol interactions to enhance our understanding of predator-pest dynamics, but this will demand various methodological innovations and considerations, for which we provide guidance. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

@danielleybourne.bsky.social et al. discuss the significant advances that artificial intelligence brings to insect biomonitoring, particularly in providing decision support systems to help farmers identify pests and virus vectors, but also the challenges to overcome. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In an editorial, we summarise the articles within the special issue and provide a synthesis on the overarching themes and concepts, which include the various emerging technologies underpinning significant advances, alongside some conceptual changes in how and when we monitor. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

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Jordan Cuff 🕷️🧬🕸️ @jordancuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today! 🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲 Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Great to see the Special Issue on Advances in Insect Biomonitoring led by @jordancuff.bsky.social now in print in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology 🧪 #biodiversity #monitoring #AI #biocontrol #metabarcoding #camera #trapping #disease #surveillance #migration

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Species of beetles living in dead oak wood are influenced by degree of wood decay (from early to well decayed) in winter: new paper in @royentsoc.bsky.social Agricultural and Forest Entomology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #saproxylic #insects #Coleoptera #biodiversity 🧪

Figure from paper showing dead wood survey process and saproxylic beetle sampling: (a) entomologist in forest taking dead wood sample; (b) sample bolts, 50 cm in length; (c) wood samples in emergence four chambers; (d) room with about 20 emergence chambers.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Many thanks to all the authors (some pictured here) who published in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology this year, and the many reviewers who supported @jordancuff.bsky.social, myself and the other editors: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1461... #insects 🧪

Fourteen of the authors who published in Agricultural and Forest Entomology recently, pictured in agricultural fields, forests, the lab and giving a presentation on their work.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The @royentsoc.bsky.social has just announced the winners of the new ECR awards for best papers in 2022 and 2023: the Agricultural and Forest Entomology award for 2022 goes to Kae Natsume for paper which shows how ants are underappreciated pollinators of crops www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Quantifying the foliage consumption of leaf-cutter ants, one of the most important insects pests in the Neotropics: New research in Agricultural and Forest Entomology from Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Two members of the research team working in a young forest plantation.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Privilege to know brings responsibility to act? How to define your power position - Sander Jacobs, last speaker at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #sciencepolicy

Sander Jacobs speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Considerations of time, bias and expertise in knowledge synthesis - Nils Bunnefeld from the Eklipse initiative at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #policy #ecosystemservices #AlternetSummerSchool

Nils Bunnefeld speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Social-ecological transformations: Power and equity in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru - Bruno Locatelli at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES #waterregulation #AlternetSummerSchool

Bruno Locatelli speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

Bruno Locatelli speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq, some students, a piano and a bust of the head Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Art and nature - Steve Redpath back at the Alternet Summer School after many years #biodiversity #nature #drawing #landscapes stephenmredpath.com

Steve Redpath speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

From conflict to transformation? Lou Lécuyer CESAB @FRBiodiv at Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #power #jaguar #humanwildlifeconflict

Lou Lécuyer speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Can we reverse the decline of Earth’s habitability? Wolfgang Cramer IMBE at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes #ipcc #climatechange #sustainability

Wolfgang Cramer speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Communication Strategies for Success in biodiversity - Julie de Bouville, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes

Julie de Bouville speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

The end of (big) cities? Transforming rural areas and food systems to conserve biodiversity - Nicolas Dendoncker, Alternet Summer School #farming #transitions #nature #alternetsummerschool

Nicolas Dendoncker speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Innovative futures thinking and decolonial praxis, participatory futures methodologies and games - Laura Pereira, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature

Laura Pereira speaking outside in Peyresq village

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Negotiating multifunctional landscapes: Where values and needs clash? Francis Turkelboom, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #landuse #conflict #stakeholder #engagement

Francis Turkelboom speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Towards a social-ecological system thinking - Emilie Crouzat at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES

Emilie Crouzat speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Wine, biodiversity and climate change Sebastian Candiago at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices

Sebastian Candiago speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Peter Bridgewater opens this year Alternet Summer School: Transformative Change: Much ado about nothing, A midsummer nights dream or All's well that ends well?

Peter Bridgewater speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Day 1 of the 18th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq - Biodiversity and society: perspectives on science and policy - waiting for the students to arrive

View from village of Peyresq, dominated by tree-covered hills.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Deadline 25th April - Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - experience a unique learning environment at this year's Alternet_Europe summer school, supported by Biodiversa+ in the village of Peyresq, France. Apply: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

Four students working outside at last year's summer school.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - join this year's Alternet summer school, supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social - and join a network for life. Applications open until 25th April alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

Summer school students on the balcony outside the lecture theatre in Peyresq, September 2023.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - join this year's @Alternet_Europe summer school, supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social, in the wonderful village of Peyresq, Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France. Applications open until 25th April alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/

The village of Peyresq in the French mountains.

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Favourite #bluebugs from last year, courtesy of Floyd Schockley from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History #bluemonday

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Today: seminar on the science-policy interface in practice organised by INRAE, Alternet_Europe and the Partnership for European Environmental Research - The impacts of plant protection products on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Register here: alterneteurope.eu/inrae-spi-se...

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Happy New Year, particularly to the entomologists moving here, and many thanks to my editorial colleagues in Agricultural and Forest Entomology, reviewers and authors over the last year (some pictured here) #insect #science resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...

Twelve photos of entomologists working in the field or lab.

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