StaffsInvertScience
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StaffsInvertScience
@SISF_2025
Staffordshire Invertebrate Sience Fair. Hosted by Staffordshire Invertebrate Group & Staffordshire University. Held at the Science Centre ST4 2DF. 01.03.2025.
Stoke-on-Trent, England Katılım Ekim 2017
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Any early years invertebrate ecologists looking for survey work? Please get in touch. Looking to offer survey work experience (paid). Plenty of survey work across the UK this year. Need a good foundation in ID, and especially Diptera to Family level.
@HAU_Entomology @hatbirder
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The final piece of the jigsaw is complete - the talks. We have a busy schedule of talks next Saturday (March 1st). Something for everyone including the Young Verrall Lecture presented by @benclunie from @HAU_Entomology.You can find out more on our Facebook page (@staffsbugfest)
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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
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We've finalised the Staffordshire University's Children's University list of activities. The passport is filled with a fantastic variety of things to achieve for your kids while you are walking around chatting to the societies.
See you all on March 1st @ Staffs Uni.
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New, fabulously illustrated spider book out now. The @BritishSpiders will be at @SISF_2025 on March 1st with @Megabunus representing the harvestmen.
Richard Lewington@rlewington2
Official launch day today. Hope it helps spider positivity
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You can find more about the Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair on our page. It is a free invertebrate conservation event hosted at Staffordshire University and run by @StaffsInverts . It is on Saturday March 1st. Perfect for all ages and levels of interest.
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Dave and Ellie will be on the BDS stand again this year and will be happy to tell you more about Chartley Moss SSSI and its important white-faced darters.
@sisf is a FREE event run by Staffordshire Invertebrate Group. It is on Saturday March 1st Staffordshire University.
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Staffordshire is home to one of the scarcest of all the dragonflies, the white-faced darter. It is so scarce that reintroductions have taken place to former sites in Cheshire to try to support the declining species.
It can be found in Staffordshire at Chartley Moss SSSI.
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You can meet Trine from @Riverflies at this year's SISF on Saturday March 1st @SUBioscience . There will also be the usual pond dipping stall with @NickMott7 and Andy Farmer, so plenty of aquatics for those interested in our waterways. @HAU_Entomology @KeeleUniversity @EnvAgency
Riverfly Partnership@Riverflies
#RiverflySpotlight Olives have small leaf-like gills and are probably the most pollution tolerant of the mayflies 💦 #Entomology #AquaticEcology #Freshwater #Baetidae #Olives #RiverflyPartnership
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As wood ants become increasingly rare, there R things we can do. 1 is actually move nests from sites with strong populations & (re-)introduce them to other suitable woods. @ConopsEnto did just this.
Moving wood ants is tried and tested. Need to consider this in Staffs.
StaffsInvertScience@SISF_2025
Not long now B4 wood ants wake up & cluster on top of their nests 2 warm up in the early spring sunshine.Staffs holds a regionally important population of these scarce ants.U can find them at just 3 sites in Staffs, 1 is @CannockChaseNL who'll B @SISF_2025 this year.
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The talks itinerary is starting to develop with some interesting presentations being lined up.
First up, we have Professor Toby Bruce from @KeeleUniversity University who will be giving a talk on 'the sense of smell in insects'.
Which sounds intriguing to say the least!
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Nick will be at the ever-popular pond dipping stall as usual so feel free to talk to him and Andy Farmer more about this work on crayfish conservation.
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Native white-clawed crayfish have undergone a decline in recent decades owing to competition with invasive signal crayfish.For many years @NickMott7 from @staffswt has been conserving the species and helped set up a number of 'arc sites' to create refuges 4 the species.
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Not long now B4 wood ants wake up & cluster on top of their nests 2 warm up in the early spring sunshine.Staffs holds a regionally important population of these scarce ants.U can find them at just 3 sites in Staffs, 1 is @CannockChaseNL who'll B @SISF_2025 this year.
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I'm so pleased that I was able to play a small part in the creation of this book as designer/typesetter. Amazing work by @MikeSlater5 @keithwarmie & many other dedicated volunteers @BCWarwickshire. I would not be suprised if updated 2nd edition or reprint might be on the cards.
BC Warwickshire@BCWarwickshire
It's happened! The book has officially SOLD OUT! Thankyou to everyone who purchased Butterfly Conservation: A Warwickshire Approach. We hope it's provided inspiration and hopeful action to aid you in making your own lepidopteran havens.
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Staffordshire is of regional importance for its populations of the red wood ant. Not long now before they will start to emerge on sunny spring days to warm up en masse. @bwars2000 @CannockChaseDC @CannockChaseNL @Lichfield_DC @StaffsInverts@bugbotherer @ConopsEnto @bugbotherer
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@ConopsEnto will also be on hand as usual to talk to anyone who would like to get a career in invertebrate ecology.
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Butterfly Conservation have work parties you can be a part of. Les Hill from Butterfly Conservation will be at SISF talking about moths and also what you can do to help BC with their work in the West Midlands.
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1 of the most rewarding parts of being an invertebrate ecologist is helping create new habitat for species. Here is a site @ConopsEnto advised on 2 help rare dingy skipper butterflies. There is now a thriving colony of the species using this new site.
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