Insect Ecology Group

New work from the SOPWA Project, which Michael worked on as a research fellow in our group (now @LukeFinland) explains below:

🚨New paper - Oil palm🌴, spiders🕷️, Liberia🇱🇷 We assessed how traditional and industrial approaches to oil palm cultivation affect spider biodiversity, web-building, and prey capture (Liberia). #spider #oilpalm #tropical #conservation #Liberia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New publication with authors including Insect Group researchers, and focussed on oil palm cultivation in Africa. Give it a read!

Our new paper is out! 🚨 We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats, Jonny, on a superb piece of work! We look forward to continuing to collaborate and seeing all you do next during your PhD @LivUni!

@martina_zoo @EdgarCTurner @SarahHLuke Hooray! Congrats Martina on a truly fantastic thesis!

My PhD thesis is out and it is open access!! 👇 doi.org/10.17863/CAM.1… Thanks to @EdgarCTurner and @SarahHLuke (my supervisors), and @InsectGroup! 🥳

New blog post on the @CambridgeAfrica website by @benedictusfree1 and me, outlining our palm oil-related project in Liberia. Many thanks to Cambridge-Africa for supporting our collab. research over the last year! shorturl.at/ahiBO

We are recruiting for our Professorship in Conservation Biology @CamZoology - most prestigious position in conservation @Cambridge_Uni. Further details here, and please circulate. It's an international call - jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41785/ Get in touch with any questions!

A wonderfully busy day volunteering at @RoyEntSoc’s stunning #RESGarden at #RHSChelsea, chatting to gardeners about how we can make outdoor spaces a haven for insects. You can now show the garden some love by voting for it in the People’s Choice Award: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Fantastic day @The_RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow on @RoyEntSoc garden, enthusing about #insects & #Entomology Vote for the garden in the People’s Choice Awards: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Light evenings only mean one thing—the return of @wildlifebcn Cambridge Local Group summer events!💫 Join us at 9pm on Mon 29th May for a guided bat walk at Byron's Pool 🦇 Meet in the car park: cambridge.gov.uk/byrons-pool-lo… No booking needed, but any donations go to @wildlifebcn

Did you miss the #VerrallLecture23 with @EdgarCTurner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity? Now you can catch up on YouTube: youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw Read more about the #VerrallLecture: royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall-… #Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research

First day of #SCCS2023, and it feels a whole week has passed! Such amazing delegates, plenaries, talks, posters... also the most diverse conference I ever attended!! (I promise I'll take better pics tomorrow) @CamZoology @CCI_Cambridge

Excited to be presenting at #SCCS2023 tomorrow. Looking forward to talking about #reptiles #rewilding and the Marna Banggara Project @sccsbng.

Are wildlife documentaries showing us the ‘real’ natural world? recent paper in People and Nature led by @k_howlett @EdgarCTurner doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1… cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wi…

For our March blog post, MPhil student @jonny_timperley tells us all about his research in Liberian oil palm plantations with @MDPashkevich and about what brought him here. Read here: zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/group…

Are wildlife documentaries too focused on mammals and birds? 🐘🐦 New @CamZoology research has found that nature documentaries are portraying a biased view of the natural world, and invertebrates aren't getting enough attention... @k_howlett @NERCscience cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wi…

Did you miss the #VerrallLecture23 with @EdgarCTurner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity? Now you can catch up on YouTube: youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw Read more about the #VerrallLecture: royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall-… #Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research

Paid internships this summer. Super chance to gain ecological field experience with experts, including #bee sampling with us @CamZoology Apply before 9am, 27 March Pls RT @BES_careers @ReedEcolNet @RoyEntSoc @UKLadybirds @EntoMasters @ueaceec @BumblebeeTrust @Buzz_dont_tweet