🐜🦋 Passionnés de nature, curieux, familles et amis des insectes : rendez-vous à Tours ! 🐝🪲
Nous vous invitons à participer à une grande journée de médiation scientifique ouverte à tous.
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreux !
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
🥰 1,100+ abstracts submitted to #ECE2026Tours!
🌍 Scientists from 66 countries will bring a huge diversity of topics—#ECE2026Tours is set to be a global insect science hub 🐜
👉 Updates: ece2026.org
Back from the 24th European Congress of Lepidopterology in the Czech Republic 🦋🇨🇿 What a week! 🎉
Had an absolute blast enjoying top-notch talks on Lepidoptera conservation, ecology & systematics 🦋🌿.
Huge shout-out to Zdeněk Faltynek Fric & team 🙌 for putting together such a fantastic conference.
New from the LIFEPLAN team in Methods in Ecology & Evolution: we present an active ensemble classifier to sift through millions of camera-trap images, finding animals while filtering out empty shots & people. 🌍📸
👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Deux nouvelles espèces de Caloptilia découvertes en Nouvelle‑Calédonie 🏝️ : leurs chenilles vivent dans des galles de feuilles 🌿 et utilisent un petit tunnel comme “toilette”, qu’elles rebouchent ensuite avec de la soie pour rester propres 🚽✨
www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...
New Caledonian Forests are full of hidden natural treasures! 🌿🦋
Our new ZooKeys paper (led by Antoine Guiguet) describes two spectacular new species of Caloptilia moths—C. augeas and C. ceryneia—discovered in the Parc des Grandes Fougères.
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1738...
Call for abstracts – XIII European Congress of Entomology (#ECE2026) 🐞
29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France
I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation”
🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025
www.ece2026.org
I’ve now personally heard of 22 colleagues taking DeRP in the USDA. These roles are irreplaceable. You can't train and hire expertise in these taxa overnight. We can't rehire what no longer exists in the US and undo this.
🧪 #Entomology
Recommended read from last year:
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New paper on Actias isabellae, focusing on its Alpine subspecies (galliaegloria).
Using genomics (RADseq) and ecological niche modelling, we found:
🧬 Extremely low genetic diversity and signs of inbreeding
🌡️ A major projected loss of suitable habitat by 2050
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
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🪶 Un estudo constata o influxo do eucalipto na diminución da avifauna forestal
🍃 Un equipo integrado por persoal investigador de USC e @mbgcsic.bsky.social comparou 240 parches de bosque autóctono e eucaliptal no Parque Natural das Fragas do Eume
🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
La Nouvelle-Calédonie présente une biodiversité foisonnante. Un chercheur du Muséum, en collaboration avec des scientifiques de l'université de Tours, de l’INRAE Orléans, du Naturalis Biodiversity Cen...
All life depends on insects. As many species decline and others—including disease carriers—relocate, the entomologists who study them are becoming endangered.
