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Biodiversity shapes human health and human well-being...but how do we measure those connections? That´s the challenge I discuss in my contribution for the new Biodiversity and Health FACTS Report from the Veolia Institute. Full report: www.institut.veolia.org/en/publicati...

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Biodiversity and Health

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Journal of Hymenoptera Research @jhr.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026

🥑 A gall midge species, Bruggmanniella perseae, has been identified as the cause of fruit deformation in avocado crops in Mexico, with six parasitoid species discovered that naturally control this damaging insect pest: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.99.200280

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our indoor compost bin is not emptied very often as butterflies started emerging. (Caterpillars were not thrown in intentionally, but some had gone in with old food plants). So maybe they should go in the freezer first.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could have been a driver for change.

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our paper on the rather large genome (1.08Gb) of the agricultural pest blueberry gall wasp is now out as a preprint. We also looked across chalcidoid genomes and found the genome size variation is largely driven by transposable element proliferation. 🧪 #Ormyridae #Hemadasnubilipennis

Blueberry gall wasp adult habitus and gall

Blueberry gall wasp genome snail plot, hi-c contact map, and K-mer spectra plot

Phylogeny, TE landscape, and PGLS between different chalcidoid lineages.

Chromosome structure of the blueberry gall wasp genome

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and more of it because of their heft

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big migration in Finland too. I wonder if there's a bad beech nut season in Russia. Bears there have also started attacking people.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Most of human productivity is harmful. It's a virtue to do less.

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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 24/09/2026

Exec Summ: Citizen science data often miss species because people tend to record sightings only where public access is easy. To get a complete picture, we need to encourage people to log common species near their homes and at the same time improve access to private natural areas for rare species.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Facebookissa taitaa olla tiedotus edelleen. Ei ole tullut Ouluun muuton jälkeen käytyä.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On meillä tweed run ollut vuosikausia Helsingissäkin. Tosin helsinkiläiset eivät ole niin tyylikkäitä, Tukholmassa alkaa jo olla fiinimpää.

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Body size and wing shape responses of #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) to contrasting environmental conditions in cold-temperate Argentine Patagonia doi.org/10.1111/mve.... @wileyecology.bsky.social

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me yesterday bringing some samples with a train and bike 600km, faster and cheaper than with a car.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you don't want a confrontation, you can just poke the bear's nose with the pole like Nikita Ovsyanikov.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chemtrails is a weird conspiracy theory as environmental chemicalisation is happening out in the open. But sure RFK, deregulate glyphosate and yell at clouds.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Se siperianvapiti pitää välittömästi pistää lihoiksi.

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just give a sphiggurus a longer tail, ears and a new paint job.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ironically, AI will kill us all when they ask it to solve climate change.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eikä ainakaan mitään käsitystä polkupyörien diversiteetistä. Se tunne kun ensimmäinen tyyppi on laittanut keskelle maastopyörän 80cm tangolla.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Still doing this personal project of finding, photographing and illustrating the geometer moths of Finland. About 70 of the 300 or so species done. Not likely to ever be completed, but a lot of fun regardless! #SciArt

Digital illustration of riband wave (Idaea aversata), mutkakulmumittari

Digital illustration of ochraceous wave (Idaea serpentata), serpentiinimittari

Digital illustration of sandy carpet (Perizoma flavofasciata), keltanauhamittari

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ilmainen santsikuppi, josta ei kerrota missään on elegantti kädenojennus paikallisille kanta-asiakkaille.

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MUSER PRESS @muser.press · 05/08/2026

#Butterfly ranges are shifting on every continent, with #climatechange and #extremeweather associated with 79% of recorded movements. A global study of 1,758 species also reveals major monitoring gaps in biodiversity-rich tropical regions. DOI: doi.org/rh8j

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Climate change is reshaping butterfly ranges worldwide • Muser Press

The researchers call for broader and more inclusive monitoring to track how climate pressures and land-use change are affecting butterfly diversity.

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Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Are you interested in #gulls, diet metabarcoding, or both? Of course you are! Check out our new preprint where we use molecular methods to decode the (animal-based) diet of lesser black-backed gulls - arguably a species with one of the most diverse diets out there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Male butterflies actually make a physical developmental trade-off between memory-related brain parts and testes, depending on how complex the larvae perceive the environment.

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Systematic differences in #phenology estimates from unstructured and structured #biodiversity datasets doi.org/10.1111/icad.70098 #Lepidoptera #InsectMonitoring @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Images courtesy of article authors

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ei kuulosta kovin rakentavalta sellainen. Kun maailma muuttuu kummallisemmaksi suurella vauhdilla, pitäisi ehdottaa perustavanlaatuisia muutoksia.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

En laskisi hallituskumppanien varaan. Tai siis, varmaan vaalipuheissa otetaan pesäeroa persuihin ja korostetaan tieteen merkitystä, mutta yllättyisin järkevästä interventiosta.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They must think it's a worm. The common name should be changed to man-eating skull-chewing fly.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Joskus metsäretken tarkoituksena on nähdä karhu.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Do we really need millions of mosquitoes to get an accurate picture of community composition? Maybe not...

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Midsummer midnight at a wilderness mosquito trap.

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Waiting for the sun to make even a tiny appearance to capitalize on the final chance to collect a cloudberry pollinator sample on this Northern Enontekiö ice cored mire. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora

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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · 18/06/2026

eDNA methods are opening new possibilities for biodiversity monitoring. But what is still needed for routine use? The recording of our webinar with Tiina Laamanen and Kristian Meissner from SYKE is now available: www.biodiversa.eu/2026/06/14/u...

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Webinar: eDNA methods in environmental monitoring

In this webinar, we explore where eDNA methods stand on the road to routine implementation, and what is still needed to support their wider uptake...

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