Functional Biodiversity

Functional Biodiversity - utilising FB to restore ecosystem services 🐛🍃🌽 @MSCActions, @BritishEcolSoc funded.

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

Host identity and quality drive parasitoid fitness and have implications for biocontrol 👉

https://t.co/yVa1aq7YcG

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Looking for a PhD project supporting beneficial insects in a changing climate? 🪰🐝🌱

Then join us at @BristolBioSci with @TomRBishop of Cardiff University, and industrial partner Olombria.

DEADLINE 03 December

More information here 👉 https://t.co/8snr1UPpaS

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

🐝Fully-Funded PhD🐝

Interested in saltmarsh management and ecosystem service provision?

Fully-funded PhD position at @BristolBioSci and @cardiffuni

Apply here 👉 https://t.co/25nMiTE5vs

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

🪲Fully-funded PhD 🪲

Interested in entomopathogenic fungi and pest-host-parasitoid interactions? 🌽

Fully-funded PhD position at @Rothamsted and @BristolBioSci.

DEADLINE 11 December

Apply here 👉 https://t.co/u8t2HKpCIi

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

🪲Fully-Funded PhD🪲

Interested in how climate change is impacting beneficial insects? 🐝🪰🦋

Fully-funded PhD position at @BristolBioSci for student of black heritage.

Please share & RT 👉 https://t.co/KJPJvWghBW

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Daisy Scott will be presenting her MRes research today at the @RoyEntSoc Climate Change SIG! Be sure to check her poster out! 🐞🪰🪲

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Get paid £18,622 to do an MRes!

3 fully funded projects are available to work with myself, Prof. Richard Wall, and @DrChrisClements at @BristolUni @BristolBioSci 🪰🪰🪰

More information is available here 👉
https://t.co/6tJJchwnAB

[Scientific Reports @SciReports]

No evidence for competition over floral resources between winter-active parasitoids and pollinators in agroecosystems @DrLucyAlford @D_Valsami
https://t.co/kKVGwryFr3

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Come and work with us on a fully funded MRes!

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

⚠️New Paper⚠️

In our latest paper we investigated potential competition between winter-active parasitoids and bees 🐝 over florals resources 🌻🌼 and the implications for biological control @D_Valsami @DrLucyAlford. Read more here 👉

https://t.co/WMAJVNqD5x

[Dr Elena Cini @CiniElena]

Our new @poshbee_eu paper is out!

We found no effect of sulfoxaflor, Crithidia bombi, or their interaction on bumblebee behaviour, colony development, or pollination provided to field beans.

Check it out here👇🏻

🔗 https://t.co/VLg4RoDiug

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

#Ento23 is almost upon us 🐞

You can still join the global entomological community by attending online 🦋

Online registration deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 01 September

https://t.co/hI24ue96Ld

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

Earlybird Registration is open for the Sustainable Agriculture Special Interest Group meeting: From monitoring to management’ will take place on 27 Sept @Rothamsted

Earlybird registration deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 01 September
https://t.co/kqqnO8QDkJ

[Functional Biodiversity @Functional_Bio]

Could wildflowers and bug hotels help avert an insect apocalypse? We just don't know – yet https://t.co/hJdyQVgCCQ

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Calling all undergraduates 📣 Interested in beneficial insects and ecosystem services? 🪰🪲🐞🦋 Come and work with me! I am offering 2 funded NERC summer placements. Feel free to DM me or find out more here 👉👉👉https://t.co/ctny3pIeDk #NERC #SummerPlacement

[Richard D Gregory @RichDGregory3]

Our paper in @PNASNews just out: Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://t.co/pa26cwOQl7 @RSPBScience @UCLCBER

[AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social @AABiologists]

Lucy Capstick @lucapstick90 @GWCT discusses the BeSpoke project @BeespokeNsr that looks at management strategies to increase pollinator numbers 🐝 🌸 #AABRegenAg

[Insect Week @insectweek]

#InsectWeek23 is coming! Are you planning an #event during 19-25 June?

Submit your event on our website! Visit the LinkTree in our bio or URL here: https://t.co/LNVzfXGavD

#Insects #Entomology #LittleThingsThatRunTheWorld @RoyEntSoc

[AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social @AABiologists]

We are delighted to announce the schedule for upcoming hybrid event on:

'Regenerative Agriculture – Understanding the opportunities and challenges'.

👀🔬Take a look, you'll agree it's a great line-up of speakers!

📅 April 25-26, York
Register TODAY!
https://t.co/UKTUhwJEPz

[Pestinfo Wiki @PestinfoW]

Nectar from flowers is one of the resources #parasitoids need and is a key component in conservation #BiologicalControl of #pests aiming at an improved agricultural environment - review by Stefano Colazza and others like @__Antonio__ - https://t.co/8B8sI1ucd7