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William Brockelsby

@williambrockelsby.bsky.social

Librarian, entomologist, New Zealand

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William Brockelsby @williambrockelsby.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Interesting idea, the iNat app AI does NZ moths ok thanks to the heaps of reference images, but can't handle multiple things

Abigail Lowe@abigaillowe.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.
William Brockelsby @williambrockelsby.bsky.social · last yr.

The Wellington, New Zealand entomology branch is looking for international speakers who would be interested to talk to enthusiast and professional entomologist a like. We got some amazing talkers off science Twitter, how's Bluesky going to compare???

Mark Anderson@ngaioweevil.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do you want to make a huge impact on the conservation of a critically endangered species in 2025? Voting for the ngaio weevil in the NZ Bug of the Year shorturl.at/WOvMe will get it precious publicity + possibly funding to help find out what it needs to recover........Please share to save a species!

A ngaio weevil on a ngaio leaf on Takapourewa, NZ
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2y ago

Pint-sized crustacean named after New Zealand brewery to boost interest in marine life

Pint-sized crustacean named after New Zealand brewery to boost interest in marine life

Tiny isopod is dubbed Pentaceration forkandbrewer in push to engage community with climate-threatened life in local waters New Zealand scientists have named a tiny snowflake-like crustacean after a Wellington brewery, in an attempt to boost the public’s interest in local marine life. The roughly 1.5mm marine isopod was found in the silty depths off New Zealand’s southern east coast. It helps decompose organic material that drifts to the seabed. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 2y ago

So. Here it is. The ABSOLUTELY nuttiest study we have ever done in my 25+ years as a scientist working on mosquitoes "Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes" Let's dive into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes

Female mosquitoes are reproductively obligate bloodfeeders which feed on vertebrate blood to obtain nutrients required for egg production (driving transmission of vector-borne pathogens in the process...

biorxiv.org

William Brockelsby @williambrockelsby.bsky.social · 2y ago

A big thanks to all those who contributed to our moth research project, paper #1 published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... If you need a copy to read reach out to me. More work to come, next up a comparison to historical records done in the late 19th, early 20th records!

Assessment of moth diversity in the Zealandia ecosanctuary through a community science initiative

A collaborative project involving researchers and citizen scientists was conducted in the Zealandia ecosanctuary (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) during 2019–2022 to investigate Lepidoptera biodi...

tandfonline.com