Brónagh D'Arcy Cobain 🐝

BSc (Hons), MSc, Mem.RES
Passionate about entomology, conservation and ecology

[Brónagh D'Arcy Cobain 🐝 @BeeCobain97]

Help raise £2000 to bring Bonnie home from China! My family are looking to give a loving home to Bonnie, who is to be rescued from a dog meat factory. Please #donate on @justgiving and RT https://t.co/ZhAOPxX2s6

[Brónagh D'Arcy Cobain 🐝 @BeeCobain97]

@racheldrake02 @LothianARG Wheres my photography credit

[Rachel Drake @racheldrake02]

Some particularly pretty froggies from our toad patrol tonight! Helping to safely move these little guys into ponds and out of harms way with @LothianARG

[Rachel Drake @racheldrake02]

Insect season is upon us! Found this tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) in need of a honey water drink this morning

[WildlifeKate @katemacrae]

My daughter, @Charl0tteMacRae just found this on a beach in Wales….. who would have a skeleton like this? It has flummoxed me! I love it that she FaceTimed me to show me! 😁😁😁

[STRANGE animals @considerSTRANGE]

We are delighted to announce that PLoS Biology @PLOSBiology has become the latest journal to recommend that authors of behavioural ecology and ethology studies comply with the STRANGE reporting framework

https://t.co/t1Xmcq9NMp

[CollectiveLabs @CollectiveBRL]

How do fish distinguish between harmless bird overflies and real bird attacks? Attacks comprise multiple cues and fish can interprete them to anticipate whether they are at danger or not! See https://t.co/1t960vUTiQ Great work led by @julianelukas!

[Weird Animals @Weird_AnimaIs]

An extremely rare melanistic flamingo, only the second individual ever found.

(Photo Marinos Meletiou)

[Paige dePolo @Paige_dePolo]

@AndrewBarnas Ug classmate declared on that the only thing he disliked more than women was peacocks (abundant at our campsite and a nuisance). I took the job of crumbling up tortilla chips and scattering them around his tent so he was mobbed by hungry birds every morning very very seriously.

[Mike Webster @mikemwebster]

Passive funnel traps may target more active sticklebacks, with implications for sampling bias. New paper led by @mollymkressler
https://t.co/HqXp0vVLj0
@CentreBioDiv

[Dr Dagmar, Archerfishionado @DJWeduwen]

Oh look! My latest, and yet first-ever chronologically speaking, research is out! I'm so excited that the work I did during my undergrad with this amazing team of people has finally been published!

[Pollinators @ScotPollinators]

Athayde Tonhasca's latest blog looks at the cunning behaviour of blister beetles. These odd-looking beetles are parasites of solitary mining bees and have amazing life cycles. Find out more @ https://t.co/g1kevzmCT0

[Derek Gow @gow_derek]

https://t.co/nRLIUTg17x. This is great news. Not within the norm of what we do in UK but if we wish to restore wildlife species which are long gone there will be no other option than their production in industrial quantities. Great project. The days of tentativity are numbered.

[Hakai Magazine @hakaimagazine]

In shallow waters of the Caribbean, box crabs crawl along the sandy bottom, perhaps oblivious to the fact that they are being stalked by fish.

Get the full story on our website: https://t.co/NBJ0yb7Y9E
@Naturalis_Sci @Werner_deGier @UniOulu @MemorialU

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

'Super smart' urban gulls target school break times for food

- Research shows birds also flock to waste centres on weekdays when rubbish is delivered - but not at weekends

Story by me
https://t.co/GhSWilg8kh

[Ulrika Candolin @ulrikacandolin]

New study revealing the breath and strength of effects of artificial light #ALAN on organisms and ecological communities.
https://t.co/2yS9h6ocCO

[Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) @BBM_Wong]

Antidepressant exposure causes a nonmonotonic reduction in anxiety-related behaviour in female mosquitofish. Paper led by @Martin_J_M_34 with @DK_Dowling @NR_Venkatesh @JackAndrewBrand @MichaelGBertram @MinnaSaaristo @HungTan_ @MonashBiol #BobWongLab

https://t.co/mLABtV3wBL

[Christos Ioannou @C_C_Ioannou]

New paper on the social behaviour of the mighty guppy!

The effect of group size decision making depends on compromise and predation risk in the guppy Poecilia reticulata.

with @dogsciencesays and Indar Ramnarine
@NERCscience
#collectivebehaviour #fishsci @BehavEcolPapers