"The rise in the island’s invertebrates – beetles, weevils, bush cockroaches and other bugs – has come after a campaign seven years ago to rid the island of about 300,000 invasive rats and mice."
#Environment #LordHoweIsland #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Insects #Conservation
NEW PREPRINT: You may recall Joshua trees started flowering fully four months early this year. Was that due to climate change? Well, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I called in Chris Callahan to formally test that hypothesis, and the answer is... it probably wasn't!
doi.org/10.64898/202...
"My writing, back when I read little, was bumbling in the dark hoping I’d touch something valuable by accident; a writer who doesn’t read now strikes me as absurd. How does a bee make honey without visiting the flowers?"
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Study: “rewilding” with large mammals increases insect diversity, especially that of Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers) and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps).
"Barn owl color morphs hunt differently in moonlight"
Learn more in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Kim Schalcher, @pbecciu.bsky.social, @owlsforpeace.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
In a new Science study, researchers use data on food webs to show that African elephants have a keystone role in savanna ecosystems through their effects on dung beetles, an insect group with important ecological functions.
📄: https://scim.ag/42Ybev1
#SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/435N4yC
A gallery of ant warfare.
New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv
Against the odds: Nesting specialization and foraging ecology provide insights into climate change responses in a mountain #bee
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70090
#Exoneura #Pollinators
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.