Tuomas Kankaanpää

@bugwebs.bsky.social

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Insect ecologist. Insect responses to environmental change. Interested in trophic interactions. Now developing monitoring methods for blood-feeding insects in the North. #InterregAurora #InsectsoftheNorth
Post-doctoral researcher at University of Oulu
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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. It's imperative that the planned research involves insects.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 1d

Humbug. Doing a PhD was fun and I got paid to do it.

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää, Benjamin Wildermuth

Basic and Applied Ecology @basicapplecol.bsky.social · 3d

🪲 New BAAE article:

Metabarcoding of stored carabid beetles reveals declining prey diversity over the last decade. Temporal diet shifts highlight long-term invertebrate declines and the value of historical collections for monitoring.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social

Fig. 3. Percentage of reads attributed to carabid, prey and other for Nebria salina and Poecilus cupreus for samples from 2013 to 2019 and 2021. Colors distinguish between (a) prey reads (green), (b) carabid reads (blue) and (c) other reads (contaminants and not assigned – orange). Proportions are given as percentages of the total number per sample (after filtering the singletons).

Fig. 5. Prey diversity in the diet of Nebria salina (a) and Poecilus cupreus (b) through time. Each dot represents the diet of one carabid specimens, dots are jittered horizontally and vertically for more clarity. The curve corresponds to a linear regression with the grey area displaying the 95 % confidence interval.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 3d

They didn't realize that it doesn't take many generations to become fat.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 4d

🦋 New research challenges the Temperature-Size Rule and highlights climate change’s potential to profoundly reshape butterfly life cycles, population dynamics, and ecological interactions.

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/zFrpO7t

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 4d

of course dudes dressed in vinyl wearing gas masks cluster is much bigger than the ento cluster

Reposted by Fernando Pulido, Tuomas Kankaanpää

Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 8d

I've been working on this for >20 years. It was about time to write it and stop playing dice against time (far too old for that)

"On commonness and rarity of insect pollinators: patterns of species abundance and diversity in a hyperdiverse Mediterranean assemblage"

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

www.biorxiv.org

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 8d

The spotted lanternfly has spread across the United States with unrelenting speed — and now we have a clue as to why: living in cities seems to have helped these invasive insects evolve to be more resistant to stresses. 🧪

www.livescience.com/animals/inse...

Spotted lanternflies are invading the US. They may have gotten their evolutionary superpowers in China's cities.

The alarming spread of spotted lanternflies across the U.S. has been made possible by cities acting as evolutionary incubators, fine-tuning the insects and enabling them to thrive.

www.livescience.com

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 8d

Voisikohan osan eläkkeistä maksaa suoraan hoivapörriäiselle? Ei tarvitsisi kelaa vaivata.

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 9d

New research shows dry‑ice tick traps can capture more ticks than traditional cloth‑dragging, suggesting a faster and potentially more effective way to monitor tick‑borne disease risks.

Can Traps Outperform Cloth Dragging for Tick Surveillance?

New research shows dry‑ice tick traps can capture more ticks than traditional cloth‑dragging, suggesting a faster and potentially more effective way to monitor tick‑borne disease risks.

entomologytoday.org

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10d

Probably that too, given their programming. Your post was just under an article about self-propagating prompts.

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Reto Schmucki @retoschmucki.bsky.social · 10d

We just released the latest update of the European Grassland Butterfly Indicator.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With nearly 50% decline since 1991 and the decline not reversing, this is again an urgent call for actions for bending the curve, restore habitat and protect biodiversity

EU Grassland Butterfly Index 1991-2024 Technical report

Executive Summary Butterflies have been systematically monitored in Europe for several decades using standard protocols that are now adopted in over 30 countries. Butterflies are ideal biological indi...

doi.org

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10d

Physical recursive agenting will be a blast.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 10d

Live, laugh, cringe

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 10d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Towards red listing understudied tropical #insects: A case study of the #DungBeetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70045

#IUCN #RedList #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 11d

#DigitalAgriculture and #BiodiversityMonitoring are using the same tools (#Drones, #AI, #IoT) but living in different worlds… 🌍

New research suggests that this gap could turn every smart farm into a massive data source for #conservation

#AgriEcology #Biodiversity

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture - npj Sustainable Agriculture

npj Sustainable Agriculture - Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture

www.nature.com

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

Ei pitäisi olla teknisesti kovin vaikeaa. Alustat kuitenkin tietävät käyttäjistään kaiken. Ja missä on turvallinen, enshittifikaatiton ja mainokseton julkinen some?

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

Aikuiset miehet pitäisi kieltää, piste.

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Hans Pohl @hans-pohl.bsky.social · 12d

Wonderful weird: 3D reconstruction of the tracheal system and balloon gut of the male Stylops ovinae. #Strepsiptera

Reposted by Nadja K. Simons, Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 15d

New #OpenAccess work in #RESPhysEnt

Influence of #temperature & light on #development of #moth larvae: Different response in the sister species #Orthosia gothica & O. cerasi
doi.org/10.1111/phen.70030

#Phenology #Photoperiod
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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 17d

Putin olisi sattumalta vähän oudonnäköinen, mutta kovassa kunnossa.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 17d

Eikö ttip tms. salli jenkkifirmojen haastaa valtion oikeuteen, jos niiden liiketoimintaa haitataan säädöksillä tai julkisesti tuetulla kilpailulla?

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18d

it's the worst promo program ever

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18d

Those pens are worth like gazillion ep-points, which require you to buy megagazillion dollars worth of eppendorf products and spend 1000 hours processing the ep-point code stickers.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18d

Sakarin villapaita remake voisi oikeasti tuottaa miljoonia.

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää, Benjamin Wildermuth

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 21d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Strong #diel variation in the activity of #insect taxa sampled by #Malaise traps
doi.org/10.1111/een.70059

#EntoMethods #InsectSampling #InsectMonitoring
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Reposted by Pieter Vantieghem, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Benjamin Wildermuth

Madeleine Fabušová @fabusovam.bsky.social · 21d

Great new research shows that light pollution prevents activity in the critical twilight period (just after sunset) in a moth and spider species. 🕷️🦋💡- this calls for mitigations targeting this critical time period. Read more in our dispatch:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 22d

People are used to gauge scale and distance.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 22d

There must be a specific set of neurons which set the scale of people.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 22d

Do mango flowers smell rotten like e.g. Sorbus flowers?

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