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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 14m

Photos courtesy of Michael Baylis & article authors.

#AnimalHealth #Biosecurity #Globalisation #InsectVectors #InsectBorneDiseases

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 14m

Looking for something to read over the weekend? Why not take a look at the article!

Investigation of global transportation of #Culicoides biting midges, #vectors of livestock & equid #arboviruses, from flower-packing plants in Kenya
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70016

@ukvbd.bsky.social @baylism.bsky.social

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 14m

New #FreeToRead work in #RESMedVetEnt summarised hot-off-press as a @royentsoc.bsky.social #ResearchHighlight!

A recent article investigates whether #Culicoides biting midges are being accidentally exported from Africa to Europe in shipments of cut flowers.

More here ⬇️
buff.ly/d1OuHlU

@wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 3h

Photo: Adult carrot weevil, Listronotus oregonensis (credit: Annie-Ève Gagnon, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 3h

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectMolecBio

The genome & stage-specific transcriptomes of carrot #weevil, #Listronotus oregonensis, reveal adaptive mechanisms for host specialisation & symbiotic interactions
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70012

@sassanasgari.bsky.social @gulianusslab.bsky.social @wiley.com

Adult carrot weevil, Listronotus oregonensis (credit: Annie-Ève Gagnon, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 5h

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Mixed effects of #urbanization on #pollination services among four native plant species
doi.org/10.1111/een.70016

#UrbanInsects #LandscapeFragmentation
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 21h

Have you had a chance to read the new issue of #RESEcolEnt yet? Why not line it up for some weekend reading!

Full contents of the November 2025 issue here: ⬇️
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652311...

Video created by Matt Greenwell
#EcologicalEntomology #Ecology #Entomology #Insects

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 1d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv

The value of public #databases for our knowledge of national #spider #biodiversity compared to a long-term scientific monitoring project
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70024

#CitizenScience #LongTermData #ScientificResearch
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 1d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt

A new #phylogeny of #Anastrepha (#Diptera: #Tephritidae) based on nuclear loci obtained by #phylogenomic methods
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70003

#Phylogenetics
@gkergoat.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 1d

New research in #RESAgForestEnt

Host preferences of non-native #Acalolepta aesthetica (Coleoptera: #Cerambycidae) on the Island of Hawaiʻi

#Biosecurity #NonNativeInsects
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 8d

🍂 It's already October and it feels like only yesterday that we were welcoming you all to #Ento25 🦋

Did you catch the Wigglesworth Memorial Lecture and the Plenary talks?

Watch them back on YouTube now 🔽

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlPF2t057DaCM2-RIFR25ss2gtp4XznNT

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 13d

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Read our latest news post and enter the competition to win a signed copy of Endless Forms by Prof. Seirian Sumner + more.

Competition Deadline: 29 September - Enter now 🔽

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 15d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESAgForestEnt

Current and future global distribution of the peach twig borer, #Anarsia lineatella Zeller (Lepidoptera: #Gelechiidae)
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70012

#SpeciesDistributions
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Long-term population changes for the UK #StagBeetle #Lucanus cervus - Evidence from #CitizenScience surveys and museum collections
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70022

#Conservation #MuseumCollection
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 17d

The work illustrates the potential for host plants to mediate insect-parasite interactions under altered conditions

@iragonese.bsky.social @jaapderoode.bsky.social @cbrandon07.bsky.social @richardlovesbirds.bsky.social @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 17d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt reports on how host plants & experimental #warming impact fitness and infection outcomes in a migratory butterfly
doi.org/10.1111/een.70010

#Danaus #MonarchButterfly

Photo credits: Isabella Ragonese

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 17d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Weaving together the past, present and future of Greek #arachnofauna: #Biodiversity, knowledge gaps and #conservation
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70019

#Spiders
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 17d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt

Evolution of the North American seed-harvester ant genus #Veromessor (Hymenoptera: #Formicidae)
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70002

#Phylogenomics #Morphology #UCEs
@gkergoat.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 18d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESAgForestEnt

Predators of two paropsine leaf beetles #Paropsisterna cloelia & #Paropsis charybdis in #eucalypt plantations in Marlborough, New Zealand
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70013

#Chrysomelidae
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 18d

The work reports on abiotic factors influencing the parasite-host interactions of a microfungus & the invasive harlequin ladybird (#Harmonia axyridis).

@michieldegroot.bsky.social @adriaenstim.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be

Photo credit: Trey Wardlaw (CC-BY-NC)

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 18d

Why might one use a hotdog roller in research? Have a read of this new #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt and find out!

Effects of #temperature & #humidity on the presence & prevalence of a common fungal #parasite on an invasive ladybird
doi.org/10.1111/een.70014

Video courtesy of article authors

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 19d

Photos:
(1) An adult female of Onthophagus vacca, observed with binocular magnifier (copyright: Cloé Joly).
(2) Two article authors (C. Joly and P. Jay-Robert) setting up a trap for dung beetles (copyright: Guillaume Noss).

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 19d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

One dung to attract them all: Faeces attractiveness to #DungBeetles in herbivore multispecies pasture
doi.org/10.1111/een.70013

#Scarabaeoidea
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

Photo credits: C. Joly & G. Noss

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 20d

New work in #RESInsectMolecBio

Role of UGT344J7 in the response of the bird cherry-oat aphid to starvation and high temperature stress
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70011

#Rhopalosiphum #Rpadi #HeatStress #RNAi #UGTs
@sassanasgari.bsky.social @gulianusslab.bsky.social @wiley.com

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 20d

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Come from away: Reconstructing a long-range migratory flight of spruce #budworm moths to Newfoundland, Canada
doi.org/10.1111/een.70011

#InsectMigration #SBW #Choristoneura
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

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