Insect Migration

A happy day for the @MigGenomics #insectmigration team here in the mountains - Rich Massy (Left) has just published his first lead author paper! A fascinating piece showing that hoverflies use the sun and internal body clock to navigate on migration! Link: tinyurl.com/hovrfly

#Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows. exeter.ac.uk/news/research/… 📸: Credit @Hawkes_Will

@Hawkes_Will @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC @CLESUniofExeter @UofE_Research @KoralWotton @UoEBiosciences @BristolUni @royalsociety @GW4plusDTP Listen to lead author Richard Massy @UniExeCEC talk more about this study on @BBCr4today Starts at 2:55:47 🔉 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Twitter hive mind I need your help! I am compiling a list of African #biologging bird scientists - could use any and all suggestions of additional peeps to include! Pls DM me if you can think of some cracking people to include!

Optimal Movement Theory by @DrHannahJW and on how we could look at the complexity that animals negotiate when moving through landscape(s). authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

"You can even see with the naked eye that they are drawn to the Mediterranean en masse" @myles_menz studies migration, not of birds, but of the numerous insects that pass through the alps to winter in the south. @ClubAlpinSuisse visits him in the field 🗻sac-cas.ch/de/die-alpen/m…

Our paper on the drivers of Painted Lady migration, led by @hgecol & Constanti Stefanescu, is now out in PNAS. We show that sub-Saharan winter rainfall levels is key to the numbers that arrive in Europe each spring @insectmigration @b_migration @UniExeCEC

The Orchid Conservation Symposium is now live! Join us for some great #orchidtalks! Register at the link below to receive the webinar link. Not all talks will be available as recordings so we encourage you to attend if you can. Join us: trybooking.com/BQUSD

out today by @martinwikelski @MichaelQuetting @YachangC @wfiedler2 @anflack and others - what we all see and never tested how: #storks use the smell of #grass to find fresh cut meadows rdcu.be/cmMzj @MPI_animalbehav

Our new paper is now online! @Ecology_Letters. (1/6) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @tatsuya_amano @MigGenomics @b_migration @insectmigration @animaltracking @BonnConvention @j_chapman2 @RyanNorrisSci @TylerFlockhart @GenMig @GerardTalavera

We have two open PostDoc positions in the institute for anyone interested in #brainevolution of birds and mammals and/or #socioecology of Orangutans.

New #paragliding gaze project underway! First stop Imaging Facility @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav! Incredibly excited to bring a number of movement technologies together to study info-gathering in flight! #biologging #mocap #eyetracking @freeflightphys @safilabmpi @fkano

Interested in a #biologging Masters project this summer?! New fieldwork and motion-analyses project! We will look through the eyes of #paragliders to investigate how soaring birds use social cues in #flight. If interested get in touch! @freeflightphys @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav

Hot off the presses! Knoblauch et al. 2021 investigate the flight orientation and weather effects of migrant #dragonflies in the #Baltic finding that Aeshna mixta uses favorable tail winds on its path and Sympetrum vulgatum follow the easterly #winds. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great work on dragonfly migration in Europe

Just got my complimentary copy of this fab looking book - many thanks @martinswarren, looking forward to reading! Rather shocked to find a photo of a very young me in the chapter on butterfly migration! Get a copy & discover the amazing journeys of painted ladies, admirals etc

Nice work 👍 good to see a dragonfly migration study. @JSUHedlund @EcosystemsInSky

Our new Biological Reviews paper is now online. We show that nearly 600 #butterfly species show evidence of #migratory #movements. (1/6) @j_chapman2 @animaltracking @MigGenomics @b_migration @insectmigration doi.org/10.1111/brv.12…

The Marmalade hoverflies (Episyrphus balteatus) have arrived here in the Pyrenees!! Huge numbers yesterday migrating through our pass. We think these tiny animals journey from N Europe potentially into Africa each Autumn! #insectmigration @flygirlNHM @FrenchMountains @guardian

Songbirds get a voice: they report how they perceive life. What they like, where they die. ICARUS is starting its 1st global project. youtu.be/Fz0po-rFnlA @CONTEXTFILM @unikonstanz @maxplanckpress @CBehav @RolandKays @Kasper_Thorup @DLR_en @SpaceTechSTI