Thanks, Josie, for running such a great workshop! So many great discussions and exciting things to come! 🐟🕸️🏞️

Josie South@josiesouth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This week was full of training, workshops and seminars. @leopoldadrianus.bsky.social taught the group ecomorphology, @ecoinvasions.bsky.social gave an insightful lecture on context dependent invasion impacts

We've really enjoyed having @maximuminsect.bsky.social join us for #EcoNet2025, #Ento25 and for a joint group meeting with @nclneg.bsky.social! See you soon, Max!

Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University@nclneg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thanks to Max Tercel for chairing a session at #EcoNet2025 and for giving a talk to us and @foragingecology.bsky.social at our joint group meeting on Monday

I had a great time talking to #Ento25 about peer review! We even had them peer reviewing some mock papers and they all did exceptionally well!

Royal Entomological Society@royentsoc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Workshops are underway at #Ento25 with EiC of Agricultural & Forest #Entomology @jordancuff.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social leading on The Priorities and Pitfalls of Good #PeerReview 🐛 #Glasgow #Education #Research #Science #Insects #InsectScience #Publications #PhD #STEM #RESAgForestEnt

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! We’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new articles and protocols and more! 🏞️📃🧪 Check out our latest news post and subscribe on our homepage for email updates! foragingecology.com/2025/09/04/f...

FERG News September 2025

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! Alongside all of the various field experiments well under way, we’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new article…

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What a buzzing time at #EcoNet2025! Was thrilled to get to share some of my PhD work and to meet so many lovely researchers! Thanks so much to all the organizers. @foragingecology.bsky.social with a strong showing and a prize winning talk by @beatricedale.bsky.social 🐝🌳

Fascinating talk by @jordancuff.bsky.social on not only *what* spiders eat but also *why*: youtu.be/rCmiS4SDe7w?... #Arachnids #Spiders #video

Networking Nutrients: Nutrients as a Driver of Invertebrate Interactions

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New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

We’ve just published a new blog: Networking Nutrients. It explores how nutrients drive invertebrate interactions above and below ground, and why this matters for everything from biodiversity to pest control. Find out more: biologicalrecording.co.uk/2025/08/19/n... @jordancuff.bsky.social

Last chance to come along to a fabulous conference right here in Newcastle!

Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University@nclneg.bsky.social · 12mo ago

FINAL CALL. Registration closes Monday 18th August

Are nutrients this missing link driving ecological interactions between invertebrates? New research suggests so. Want to learn more? Join Dr @jordancuff.bsky.social for a FREE entoLIVE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1350222234... #Insects #Nutrients 🧪 🌍 @amentsoc.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Aquatic biological invasions exacerbate nutritional and health inequities" http://dlvr.it/TM5XMT @josiesouth.bsky.social ‪@jordancuff.bsky.social Luca Sabini, Zarah Pattison @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

Last drone flights of my PhD! ✨ The weather at the Hepple Estate was absolutely perfect until the last four lines when a thunderstorm started to roll in… can’t beat the British weather 🤣. Thanks so much to @jordancuff.bsky.social for bringing himself and his positive attitude to uplift the day!

A new #RESAgForestEnt article models the potential distribution of the #invasive poplar #LaceBug Monosteira unicostata & its capacity to adapt to novel environments Read the article🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12691 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

#RESAgForestEnt has a new review article on #CossidMoths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) as #pests of woody plants🌳 Learn about their characteristics, diversity & bionomy & the damage they cause #OpenAccess🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12689 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @wiley.com

EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e... PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.

Come and do some fieldwork with me! #entomology #spiders #arachnology #womeninstem #fieldwork

What's going on in FERG?! Find out in our monthly news post! foragingecology.com/2025/06/08/f... Some incredible updates and photos from the group, including new papers, fieldwork antics and outreach programmes! There's even a foraging logic puzzle to have a go at.

FERG News June 2025

It’s been another busy month, with plenty of fieldwork underway, some new faces and some nice new outputs! Read below for all of the recent updates, some other things we’d like to share…

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🚨WHERE ARE THE CRAB SPIDERS?🚨 If you spot any crab spiders on flowers, help out @envirosyment.bsky.social by sending in photos and, even better, live spiders! This will help inform her important research on the weird and wonderful interactions between invertebrate predators and plants!

Rosy Christopher@envirosyment.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

Further information about the scheme can be found here foragingecology.com/spider-spies/ along with links to our recording form. Please feel free to ask me any questions about the scheme, the spiders or the work I'm doing with them!

Spider Spies

Welcome to Spider Spies! Flower crab spiders (Misumena vatia) love to live in flower verges, which are great for pollinators, biodiversity buffer zones and natural pest control. We want to find out…

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We had a great time last week putting up experimental lamp posts at one of the university's experimental farms for @miacroftento.bsky.social's upcoming artificial light experiments! We even had a mining bee digging its hole near ours - perhaps setting up their own lamp posts! 💡🐝

The woodpasture at Hepple Wilds really was showing off its early spring best for laser scanning! Can’t wait to return with @jordancuff.bsky.social in the summer for a final set of 🌳🕷️🪻data for my PhD. So excited for the collaboration as part of my work with @foragingecology.bsky.social

The Editors' Choice in our new #RESAgForestEnt Vol. 27 Issue 2 shows #FleaBeetles in spring #OilseedRape differ in #phenology & #habitat choices for reproduction & #overwintering🪲 See the #PestManagement implications🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12659 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social

📢#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

Also found some great carabid #beetles up here, although this one was not so happy and did try to make a meal out of my finger 🪲 Fairly certain this is a pterostichus but not sure on the species so will be sending over to @chrisfoster.bsky.social and the recording scheme

"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

A new #RESAgForestEnt paper explores host specificity & stage preference of Psyllaephagus species (#Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) to invasive eucalypt #psyllids (#Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) #OpenAccess🔽 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12679 @jordancuff.bsky.social @allanwatt.bsky.social‬ @chrisranger.bsky.social

Host specificity and host stage preference of Psyllaephagus species (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) towards invasive eucalypt psyllids (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae)

Invasive eucalypt psyllids pose a threat to the long-term production of eucalypts worldwide. In order to reduce their economic impact, classical biological control using Psyllaephagus species has be...

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We're really excited about these new article types! Share your perspectives on the impact of policy on insects in agriculture and forestry! 📃🐝🐛 Publish new methods and applications of methods from other fields! 🧪🪲💻 Check out the updated guidelines and keep eyes peeled for more updates to come!

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to announce the launch of several new article types in #RESAgForestEnt, creating a space for innovative new formats, including methods, applications & ‘policy insights’ articles More info here🔽 buff.ly/96XpoYf @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social

Welcome to Bluesky, Broghan! 😃🚁🌳

Broghan Mareighd Erland@broghanmerland.bsky.social · last yr.

Introduction time! Hi, I’m Broghan a PhD student at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🇨🇦in🇬🇧 I study 🌳 #carbon and 🪻 #biodiversity in UK #agroforestry systems. A particular focus is on remote sensing of structural and multispectral diversity of vegetation as they relate to foraging ecology.

Here is what cabbage maggot eggs look like at 10X and 20X