Ecological entomologist - research/teaching in forest, agricultural, horticultural and urban environments - don't forget the roundabouts simonleather.wordpress.com/aโฆ
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Interested in #MSc in #entomology, #forest protection, #conservation, #ecological #pest management, #agroecology, plant pathology, come to @HarperAdamsUni next PG Open Day harper-adams.ac.uk/events/?tโฆ
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Very low energy levels so far - running at about 20%
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Britain's got a few shortages just now. Brexit, you know. But all we need is to let the EU truck drivers back in, right? ...
#BrexitFuelShortages #BrexitReality #petrolpanic #EU
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Historical decrease in agricultural landscape diversity is associated with shifts in bumble bee species occurrence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/โฆ via @AFEntomology
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25 Sep 2021
No idea with this one! Obscure beetle or inconspicuous ladybird? If the latter, could it be Coccidula rufa? Found on Common Reed #ladybirds๐ง
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25 Sep 2021
Weโve got to move away from promoting this fake unethical photography! This frog is posed with wire and then the wire is photoshopped out. @CanonUSAimaging please reconsider what you feature on your Instagram .
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25 Sep 2021
This is false. The EU has no laws against issuing more visas.
25 Sep 2021
The ability to issue more visas if and when our economy needs them is exactly what "taking back control" was about. Of course we should do it!
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Great choice
25 Sep 2021
It is with both sadness and happiness that I pass the Presidents banner of the @amentsoc, after three wonderful years, to the amazing @thiswordistaken - excellent coleopterist, science communicator, and all round good egg ๐
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Days on the Claise: A Third of Species Threatened in Touraine daysontheclaise.blogspot.comโฆ
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to write โ Insects โ A Very Short Introduction simonleather.wordpress.com/2โฆ via @Entoprof
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24 Sep 2021
๐ฌ๐ง 'If you can eat this sausage sandwich and drink the mug of tea, you've passed'
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
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Simon Leather ๐ถ๐ช๐บ retweeted
24 Sep 2021
I am recruiting a Master's student to work on a project on vertebrate surveys. Vertebrate surveys using DNA extracted from mosquitoes. Much like Jurassic Park, but for biodiversity conservation and extant animals. Please share, and email for more info: lereeves@ufl.edu. #UFbugs
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Cut It Out! Managing Southern Pine Beetle Infestations in a Changing Forest Environment entomologytoday.org/2021/09/โฆ via @EntsocAmerica
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24 Sep 2021
The most difficult thing I have ever had to write โ Insects โ A Very Short Introduction simonleather.wordpress.com/2โฆ via @Entoprof
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Cereal Aphids data for 7-day period ending 17th September 2021. Overall, cereal aphid activity has continued to increase significantly from last week. The principal BYDV vectors Rhopalosiphum padi are above the annual weekly average 2017-2020 (252 v 1472).
eservices.afbini.gov.uk/aphiโฆ
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to write โ Insects โ A Very Shortย Introduction simonleather.wordpress.com/2โฆ
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Days on the Claise: Millions of Spores and a Lacquered Cap daysontheclaise.blogspot.comโฆ
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The State of Integrated Pest Management for Spotted-Wing Drosophila entomologytoday.org/2021/09/โฆ via @EntsocAmerica
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