Why moths might be more efficient pollinators than bees and butterflies
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If you've ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths.
If you've ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths.
By Fiona Mathews, Professor of Environmental Biology, University of Sussex and Max Anderson,South West Landscape Officer for…
Why moths might be more efficient pollinators than bees and butterflies: If you’ve ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare…
– By Fiona Mathews, Professor of Environmental Biology, University of Sussex Yellow underwing moths were one of the species in…
If you’ve ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths.
If you think of insects at all, you probably see them as something to be scared of, as pests to be stomped on, or as persistent…
Insect populations are declining worldwide at a rate of almost 1% per year. This decline is alarming.
Why there are fewer insects on UK farms than there were a century ago — and how to restore them: Insect populations are…
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Insect populations are declining worldwide at a rate of almost 1% per year. This decline is alarming.
Insect populations are declining worldwide at a rate of almost 1% per year. This decline is alarming.
MPs will debate the use of bee-killing pesticides in agriculture on 1 February.
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
Wasp-human interactions are different this year because of how the heatwave has affected their environment and behaviour (Picture…
Wasp-human interactions are different this year because of how the heatwave has affected their environment and behaviour (Picture…
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the…
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams, and parents counting down the days until schools open.
– By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down…
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open.
UCL’s Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research has conducted one of the largest-ever assessments of insect biodiversity…
Insects are facing an unprecedented threat due to the “twin horsemen” of climate change and habitat loss.
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to…
PRI ESPL INT.LONDON FES31 INSECTS-CLIMATE-CHANGE Climate change triggering global collapse in insect numbers: stressed farmland…
Speed read The world may be facing a devastating "hidden" collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change…
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to…
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to…
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to…
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to…
Speed read The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change…
Speed read The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change…
Speed read The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change…
It’s just one step that cities can take to encourage developers to build sustainably and in nature-friendly ways.
Nature can thrive in cities with the right opportunities, and several British councils are working to support the development…
Starlings and other birds like to nest in house eaves. Tony Skerl/Shutterstock Nature can thrive in cities with the right…
Nature can thrive in cities with the right opportunities, and some English councils are working to help develop homes for…
Nature can thrive in cities with the right opportunities, and some English councils are working to help develop homes for…
I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10cm from my nose.
– By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a…
I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10cm from my nose.
Bachkova Natalia/Shutterstock I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10cm from my…
I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10cm from my nose.
I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10 cm from my nose.
Senior Lecturers Rinke Vinkenoog, Katherine Baldock and Matthew Pound as well as Research Fellow Mark Goddard, discuss urban…
– By Rinke Vinkenoog, Senior Lecturer in Biology, Northumbria University, Newcastle Half of the world’s people already live in…
Half of the world’s people already live in urban areas, and that number will only grow in the future.
被子植物の一部は、花の香りやミツなどで昆虫を誘引し、花粉を運ばせるという「虫媒」によって受粉を行っています。ハチやチョウが虫媒を行う昆虫の代表として知られてきましたが、「ガ」も虫媒において非常に重要な役割を果たしていると新たに明らかになりました。 続きを読む…
SmartNews Keeping you current The researchers gathered data from 166 surveys of insect abundance around the world, mostly…
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February 17, 2020 A paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution suggests that biodiversity in the UK may be increasing…
A new study reveals widespread losses of pollinators in the UK over the past three decades.
Alena Veasey / Shutterstock.com More Have you ever had moment of supermarket paralysis, stood with an organic vegetable in hand…
Post sponsored by NewzEngine.com Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Oliver, Professor of Applied Ecology, University of…
Have you ever had moment of supermarket paralysis, stood with an organic vegetable in hand and the moral part of your brain…
Have you ever had moment of supermarket paralysis, stood with an organic vegetable in hand and the moral part of your brain…
Since the end of the Second World War, 97 per cent of the UK’s wildflower meadows have been dug up or destroyed.
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jack Marley, Commissioning Editor, UK edition Many scientists believe that halting global…
Rather than reinvent the wheel, some experts are calling for natural solutions to climate change.
Many scientists believe that halting global warming at 1.5°C will require us to invent Negative Emission Technologies …
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Olivia Norfolk, Lecturer in Conservation Ecology, Anglia Ruskin University Since the end of…
Since the end of World War II, 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows have been dug up or destroyed.
Since the end of World War II, 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows have been dug up or destroyed.
A recent study published on Nature Communications found that, between the years of 1980 and 2013 in the UK, 10 per cent of wild…
A recent study published on Nature Communications found that, between the years of 1980 and 2013 in the UK, 10 per cent of wild…
If you could ask British insects about the habitats they prefer, they’d probably tell you that you can’t improve on grassland…
If you could ask British insects about the habitats they prefer, they’d probably tell you that you can’t improve on grassland…
Coffee, apples, honey – were it not for the precious work of pollinators, countless things that we eat and drink would not exist…
One way in which climate change could affect pollination activity is through smell - altering the scent of plants, and thus the…
Coffee, apples, honey – were it not for the precious work of pollinators, countless things that we eat and drink would not exist…
Each year, hundreds of millions of hoverflies cross the English Channel from continental Europe, according to a new radar-based…
Café, pommes, miel… on ne compte pas les produits de notre alimentation qui n'existent que grâce au concours précieux des…
Wildlife friendly refuges around the edges of farmers’ crops have been credited with slowing biodiversity declines, however…
IST Brent, a borough in London, is building a 'bee corridor’ that will run seven miles.
At any one time it’s estimated there are 10 quintillion insects alive. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
IST Brent, a borough in London, is building a 'bee corridor’ that will run seven miles.
7 miles of meadows will offer pollinators a safe place to dine. The corridor isn't in bloom yet, but when it is, it will…
London Borough of Brent is building a bee corridor in time for summer 2019. This is thanks to 22 wildflower meadows that are…
A London council is growing a seven-mile long “bee corridor” of wildflowers in an effort to boost the numbers of pollinating…
Many species of flower-visiting insect are in trouble in Britain, according to a new report from the Centre for Ecology and…
A large shaggy bee typically found in Southern England and Wales. Researchers warned that species of wild bees and hoverfly are…
Many insect pollinator species are disappearing from areas of Great Britain, a new study has found.
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