📢 @who.int latest Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER), including Global #Dengue Update (data as of end of June 2026). 🦟 More info: iris.who.int/server/api/c... worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/dengue_global/

Inspired by @mosquitolab.bsky.social's enthusiastic description (skywriter.blue/@mosquitolab...) I managed to get hold of a copy of JD Gillett's "Common African Mosquitos" from 1972 and its wonderful drawings by Dr Judith G Smith.🦟

🕷️" #Ticks Are on the Move. Here Are the Risks in Your Region. Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas." by @briannaabbott.bsky.social in @nytimes.com [gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/w...

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Manche Stechmücken stechen praktisch nur Menschen. Das ist heute verständlich, weil es so unglaublich viele Menschen gibt. Aber diese Spezialisierung begann schon vor über einer Million Jahre, als Menschen noch eher selten waren. Kluge Wahl, Stechmücke!

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

@sharkastic.bsky.social · 4w ago

As it's schism month, I think you should also explain the Binface / Buckethead schism

🦟"Catnip lotion as effective as #Deet at repelling #mosquitoes, study finds" by @katlay.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally

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I have a fine selection of bug memes.

📢 Looking for a #job in #CentralAmerica 🌎 ? @doctorswithoutborders.org are #hiring an #Entomologist for International Humanitarian Missions. 🕷️ 🦟 🪰 Start date: September 2026. More information ⬇️ job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosint...

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there?  A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years.  Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected.  doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social

Great cartoon by @lynnihsu.bsky.social y.social in @newyorker.com. Enjoy the beautiful outdoors this summer, but stay protected against #ticks, #flies & #mosquitos! (And yes, some mozzies go for the ankles while ticks may prefer soft skin around the neck!)🕷️ 🪰 🦟 www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62050

As many as half a million Americans have been afflicted with alpha-gal syndrome—a tick-borne disease that can cause a life-threatening allergy to red meat. Burkhard Bilger reports on the epidemic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dzPniM

The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us

Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.

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🦟" #Drones Used to Fight #Mosquitoes as #Dengue Fever Surges in #SriLanka." by @purpleskiess.bsky.social in @nytimes.com [gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Drones Used to Fight Mosquitoes as Dengue Fever Surges in Sri Lanka

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🦟"Military deployed in #SriLanka to fight surging #dengue #outbreak. Spiralling #epidemic sees more than 1,000 people infected in a single day." by @sneweyy.bsky.social in @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

📢 Call for #Applications: Integrated #Arbovirus Management International #Course. 5-day, in-person training to strengthen prevention, detection and response to arboviral diseases ( #dengue, #Zika, #chikungunya).🦟 Application deadline 29 July 2026! community.pasteur-network.org/opportunitie...

“After several rounds of clinical trials with a control group, we can confirm that anyone marked by the imprint of suffering from Ranggnarr, The God of Mosquitos, is far more likely to be bitten by the insect deity’s loyal worshippers,” said Entomology Department Head Marcus Falwell

Study: Mosquitos More Attracted To People Branded With Mosquito God’s Rune Of Punishment

NEW YORK CITY—Touting the discovery as a breakthrough in understanding the behavioral patterns of the insects, Rockefeller University researchers published a study Friday revealing that mosquitos are ...

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📢 #Pfizer and #Valneva Announce that #LymeDisease 🕷️ #Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates Strong Efficacy in Phase 3 VALOR Trial: www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...

Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart

The nearly 2 million bug zappers sold in the United States each year cause the needless deaths of billions of innocent insects. We need to get the word out that they don't control mosquitoes. Please share this list with your neighbors. #mosquitoes #insects colinpurrington.com/2026/06/10-r...

10 reasons why you shouldn't buy a bug zapper

Although scientists have known for decades that bug zappers do not control mosquitoes, gullible Americans buy 1.75 million of them every year. To help get the word out I thought I'd create a more exha...

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"A 🐯 #tiger is not always a satyr: role of male mating behaviour in interspecific mating interactions between #Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Maisie Vollans, Lauren Cator et al. in Parasites & Vectors @bugbittentweets.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A tiger is not always a satyr: role of male mating behaviour in interspecific mating interactions between Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus - Parasites & Vectors

Background Interspecific mating between Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which act as vectors of a wide range of arboviruses, is predicted to have an important influence on their future distributio...

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The twelfth installment in the @nytimes.com Lost Science series is up: an entomologist who helped protect people from malaria. Story by @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4pBdYbk

She Studied Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria

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Many of us have seen videos of humans swimming with orcas. The reality, however, is much different. Over the course of nearly a year, I traveled to Norway and Mexico to report on the complexity of swimming with these apex predators. Read more in @nytimes.com gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

Clear Waters, Murky Morals: When Humans Swim With Killer Whales

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🐍"Hidden Treasure of Rare #Snake Specimens: in foothills of Ecuadorean #Amazon, 101-year-old farmer & young scientist turned amateur collection into scientific survey of one of most diverse snake habitats" - terrific story by @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/s...

A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens

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🦟"Outdoor #lights may be making #mosquito season longer: artificial light at night delays winter “shutdown” of mosquitoes carrying disease" by Olivia Maule @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Outdoor lights may be making mosquito season longer

Artificial light at night delays winter “shutdown” of mosquitoes carrying disease

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📣Submit to the DNRF Photo Competition 2026. We invite researchers across Denmark to share a photo that brings their research to life.📸 Deadline👉August 27, 2026👇 dg.dk/en/dnrf-phot...

Surprising result from our new study in Proc. R. Soc. B: alien #wildpigs were associated with fewer invasive plants in eastern US forests, while native white-tailed #deer showed the opposite pattern 🦌🐗 Ecological effects depend on feeding behaviour more than nativeness🌿Led by @niming-eco.bsky.social

Day 27 of #Coverbirds! We’re down to the last 5 coverbirds, so I thought I’d throw in one I made in 2023. It sparked an idea for my #birdathon that I’ve finally gotten around to doing. Shouldn’t there be a guide for duck ID based on butts? I think so (1/5) #birds

Came across this amorous pair last weekend whilst walking in West Sussex Stenocorus meridianus - the variable longhorn. These beetles are very sexually dimorphic and the smaller male was NOT letting go of his ride! @colsocbi.bsky.social

🕷️ " #LymeDisease cases in #England rise by more than 20% in a year [according to latest @ukhsa.bsky.social data: www.gov.uk/government/p... by Nicola Davis in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Lyme disease cases in England rise by more than 20% in a year

Scientists developing vaccines and anti-tick treatments amid growing concern over spread of disease

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