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Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

Nature research paper: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Sep 5

New paper out on community ecology of parasitoids and their hosts 🪲🐝🪰🕷️
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · Aug 26

New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt

Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009

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

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Alpine Environment - Eurac Research @euracalpenv.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 Wild #bees thrive in biodiverse mountain farms! 🐝🐝

Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝

Find out more here:
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more

Redirecting

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Jul 10

This work comes out of the excellent master thesis of Felix Puff at the University of Vienna, also under the supervision of Christian Schulze.
During fieldwork Felix discovered also the northernmost occurrence of Tritemis annulata:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Jul 10

New paper out 👇
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Jun 14

An specially scenic wood ant nest location.
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 21

Mountaineers come in many shapes, quite some inhabit also alpine soils 🪱🦠🐜🕷️🪲🏔️
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them 👇

Michael ヘビ Steinwandter @msteinwandter.bsky.social · May 15

NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews!

Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, me, and many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher.

Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4)

#UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA

Screenshot of the cover page of the scientific review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by Nadine Praeg and Michael Steinwandter and many co-authors.

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 20

Today is #worldbeeday 🐝
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social

Think of a bee

Five hundred species of wild bees live in South Tyrol, each different in anatomy, ecology and behavior. Entomologist Lisa Obwegs is studying these diverse populations to assess the impact of human act...

www.eurac.edu

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 13

We installed camera traps to investigate the use of red wood ant nest mounds by 🐦‍⬛🦡🦌🐿️
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 12

New butterfly sampling season started today 🦋

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 2

This spring we searched on the plants where we observed ovideposition last summer
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Alpine Zephyr Blue (Kretania trappi)

Alpine Zephyr Blue in June 2024 by Elia Guariento

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · May 1

It took some failed surveys before we finally spotted what we think is the caterpillar of the 🦋 endemic to dry alpine valleys: Kretania trappi
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
@europebutterfly.bsky.social

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Chiara Paniccia @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social · Apr 18

📢1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains 🎶🏔️In collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) – part of the “Soundscape for All” project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested!
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Apr 13

What a team 💪
We are going continental with wood 🐜 research 🧐

MonitAnt @monitant.bsky.social · Apr 11

Over the past four days, the MonitAnt team has been meeting in Germany for a really productive workshop, even with new faces. A lot was discussed and prepared and now we are ready for another successful field season in 2025!

Can you guess what we wanted to show in the last picture? 🐜

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Melvin Opolka @melvinopolka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! 🐜 We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. 🔎

blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...

MonitAnt: European-level monitoring strategy for mound-building Formica ants

Formica rufa workers engaged in food sharing (trophallaxis) (© Elia Nalini) In the popular imagination, when we think about environmentally impactful ants, the first images that come to mind are of...

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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · Apr 2

It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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Screenshot from the cover page of the paper

A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes

A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus

A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Mar 25

Have a look at this beautiful outreach project using the #wildbees collected by PhD Student Lisa Obwegs 🐝
beehold.eurac.edu/en

If you want to know more 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

BEEhold - South Tyrol’s wild bees: biodiversity on display

The BEEhold project celebrates the diversity and importance of South Tyrol’s wild bees.

beehold.eurac.edu

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Mar 1

Spring is coming to the Alps 🐜
@monitant.bsky.social

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Alpine Environment - Eurac Research @euracalpenv.bsky.social · Feb 28

Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi

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Michael ヘビ Steinwandter @msteinwandter.bsky.social · Feb 26

NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉

We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁

Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)

📄 doi.org/10.4404/hyst...

Screenshot of the paper's title and authors, with information on the link and the journal.

Photo of a high alpine sampling site close to glaciers at 3,300 m a.s.l. in the mountains of South Tyrol (Italy), where the new European record for detecting the pygmy shrew was set.

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Feb 24

Interested in doing a PhD on #insect #migration or #conservation at @monashuniversity.bsky.social i in #Melbourne, #Australia? If so, please feel free to email me. For international students, the application deadline is late March. shawanchowdhury.com/join-us/

Join Us!

Opportunities We are seeking PhD students in citizen science, insect conservation, or citizen science. We expect candidates to have some experience in fieldwork and ecological modelling and at leas…

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Feb 4

Today Alberto visited our lab! Lots of wood 🐜 research planed 💪
@monitant.bsky.social

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · Jan 29

Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol):
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions 🥳🥳 How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies 🦋 #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️

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Michael ヘビ Steinwandter @msteinwandter.bsky.social · Jan 7

#FreeTagliamento - let one of Europe's last big natural river flow freely.
Sign here and get all the info at https://www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-eng/

#Petition #SignHere #NatureProtection #RiverProtection #Biodiversity

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ITA ENG SIGN THE PETITION! FIND OUT MORE 815 scholars and experts from 35 countries have signed an appeal to ask the competent bodies to guarantee in every way the protection of this river and in…

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