A happy day for the @MigGenomics #insectmigration team here in the mountains - Rich Massy (Left) has just published his first lead author paper!
A fascinating piece showing that hoverflies use the sun and internal body clock to navigate on migration!
Link:
https://t.co/fOunt699n6
#Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows.
https://t.co/zcQLSYPLNt
📸: Credit @Hawkes_Will
Twitter hive mind I need your help! I am compiling a list of African #biologging bird scientists - could use any and all suggestions of additional peeps to include! Pls DM me if you can think of some cracking people to include!
Optimal Movement Theory by @DrHannahJW and on how we could look at the complexity that animals negotiate when moving through landscape(s). https://t.co/p01yC5llBz
"You can even see with the naked eye that they are drawn to the Mediterranean en masse"
@myles_menz studies migration, not of birds, but of the numerous insects that pass through the alps to winter in the south. @ClubAlpinSuisse visits him in the field 🗻https://t.co/W31A0nOGsU
Our paper on the drivers of Painted Lady migration, led by @hgecol & Constanti Stefanescu, is now out in PNAS. We show that sub-Saharan winter rainfall levels is key to the numbers that arrive in Europe each spring @insectmigration@b_migration@UniExeCEC
The Orchid Conservation Symposium is now live! Join us for some great #orchidtalks! Register at the link below to receive the webinar link. Not all talks will be available as recordings so we encourage you to attend if you can.
Join us: https://t.co/t19LEvoAR7
Interested in a #biologging Masters project this summer?! New fieldwork and motion-analyses project! We will look through the eyes of #paragliders to investigate how soaring birds use social cues in #flight. If interested get in touch! @freeflightphys@MPI_animalbehav@CBehav
Hot off the presses! Knoblauch et al. 2021 investigate the flight orientation and weather effects of migrant #dragonflies in the #Baltic finding that Aeshna mixta uses favorable tail winds on its path and Sympetrum vulgatum follow the easterly #winds.
https://t.co/OX25sL81h5
Just got my complimentary copy of this fab looking book - many thanks @martinswarren, looking forward to reading! Rather shocked to find a photo of a very young me in the chapter on butterfly migration! Get a copy & discover the amazing journeys of painted ladies, admirals etc
The Marmalade hoverflies (Episyrphus balteatus) have arrived here in the Pyrenees!! Huge numbers yesterday migrating through our pass.
We think these tiny animals journey from N Europe potentially into Africa each Autumn!
#insectmigration@flygirlNHM@FrenchMountains@guardian