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EvoMob Stirling

@evomob.bsky.social

🧫🦠🔬👨‍🔬👩‍💻🐛🐝🌊 Molecular, Microbial and Evolutionary Biology Reseach Group @UniversityofStirling Posting photogenic moments in science 📸

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EvoMob Stirling @evomob.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Great day out at #falkirksciencefestival #wildscience learning about camouflage with some real stick insects and some pretend caterpillars. Also found a super Green longhorn moth on our #bugsafari. Big thanks to Sofia, Kath and Finlay for their help!

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Becky Boulton @bb-phd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy #waspwednesday everyone! Here's the latest article from wasp HQ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In a nutshell - controlling crop pests using parasitoid wasps is evolutionarily resilient to resistance evolution in pests because parasitoids are cool #science #evolution #parasitoid

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Resistance evolution in parasitoid biocontrol: understanding the rule, managing the exceptions

In contrast to chemical pest control, biological control (biocontrol) is generally considered evolutionarily stable, with pests rarely evolving resist…

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Becky Boulton @bb-phd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

happy belated #waspwednesday - here's a belated wasp update from wasp HQ from *Dr* Mia McGowan. #Biocontrol of #whitefly with #parasitoids is evolutionarily resilient because resistant whitefly lay fewer eggs with lower hatching success academic.oup.com/jee/advance-...

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University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congratulations Dr James! 👏

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Becky Boulton @bb-phd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy #waspwednesday from me and the @evomob.bsky.social. Here is a picture of a mating pair of thynnid flower wasps I saw on my holiday to #TorresdelPaine national park in #Patagonia #Chile

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EvoMob Stirling @evomob.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Happy #waspwednesday everyone. The #parasitoid wasp Tachardiaephagus somervilli saved the #christmasislandcrabs from extinction by controlling an invasive mealybug and its symbiotic ant which was eating the crabs #waspstotherescue read more here www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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