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Moths use magnetic compass and visual cues to guide them during migration elifesciences.org/for-the-pr…
Moths use magnetic compass and visual cues to guide them during migration

Moths use magnetic compass and visual cues to guide them during migration

A study suggests that the integration of geomagnetic and visual cues help some of the world’s most invasive moth species orient themselves during their seasonal migration.

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Tracking the skies: What 90 years of data reveal about high-flying insects and growing pest threats | EurekAlert! eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Tracking the skies: What 90 years of data reveal about high-flying insects and growing pest threats

Tracking the skies: What 90 years of data reveal about high-flying insects and growing pest threats

These insects, including pollinators, predators, and crop pests, play a vital role in moving nutrients, energy, and genetic material across ecosystems. Studying them has proven notoriously difficult,...

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Climate change is leading to an ecological trap in a migratory insect | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…

Climate change is leading to an ecological trap in a migratory insect | PNAS

Many insect migrants rely on favorable seasonal winds to carry out long-range latitudinal migrations. In East China, the annual advance and retreat...

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Nanjing Agricultural University is hosting the 3rd International Conference of Insect Pest Management (ICIPM 2023) in Nanjing, on 20-23 October 2023. As vice chairman of the conference, I cordially invite you to participate in this conference in Nanjing's golden autumn.
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Changing patterns of the East Asian monsoon drive shifts in migration and abundance of a globally important rice pest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Changing patterns of the East Asian monsoon drive shifts in migration and abundance of a globally...

In East Asia, climate-induced changes in the Western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) atmospheric circulation system are affecting wind-fields and precipitation zones and these, in turn, are changing...

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Focus on Fall Armyworm frontiersin.org/research-top…

Frontiers | Focus on Fall Armyworm

Historically, the geographic distribution of the Fall Armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has been limited to the Americas, inclu...

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Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research mdpi.com/si/113413 #mdpiinsects via @Insects_MDPI
Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research | Insects | MDPI

Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research | Insects | MDPI

The fall armyworm, an invasive pest from the Americas, is rapidly spreading through the Old World. It has a wide range of hosts and catastrophic destructive...

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Our PNAS paper about Painted Lady Butterfly is online now. Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant pnas.org/content/118/26/e210…

Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant | PNAS

Many latitudinal insect migrants including agricultural pests, disease vectors, and beneficial species show huge fluctuations in the year-to-year a...

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Overseas Immigration of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Invading Korea and Japan in 2019 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Overseas immigration of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), invading...

Fall armyworm (FAW) would take a round-trip migratory cycle in eastern Asia, where they will pose a serious threat to food security. Therefore, it is very important to understand the migration path...

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Hot off the press 🥳! A study from our lab reveals that the monarch butterfly light sensitive Cryptochrome 1 - but not the mammalian-like Cryptochrome 2 - mediates light-dependent magnetosensing of the Earth's magnetic field inclination disq.us/t/3umqeo5
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Plagues of Desert Locusts: Very Low Invasion Risk to China ##mdpiinsects via @MDPIOpenAccess
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Migratory Take-Off Behaviour of the Mongolian Grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus mdpi.com/760760 via @MDPIOpenAccess
Migratory Take-Off Behaviour of the Mongolian Grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus

Migratory Take-Off Behaviour of the Mongolian Grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus

Oedaleus asiaticus is one of the dominant species of grasshoppers in the rangeland on the Mongolian plateau, and a serious pest, but its migratory behavior is poorly known. We investigated the...

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New paper by @boya_gao from her time in my lab, a radar study of orientation behaviour of high-flying migrant hoverflies, in Proc Roy Soc: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.04… with @KoralWotton, @hgecol, @myles_menz & @Hawkes_Will. Sequel to our recent HF migration paper in @CurrentBiology
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"Once Upon A Virus" Very good Chinese take on Western (US/UK) failure
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Stay at home, do essential travel. Because we don't know who is B and 2B.
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All my dear friends, how are you? I wish everything goes well. Please take care you and your family.
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Plagues of Desert Locust: No invasion risk to China biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Plagues of Desert Locust: No invasion risk to China

Plagues of Desert Locust: No invasion risk to China

Recently, the most serious upsurge of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) in the last 25 years is spreading across eastern Africa and southwestern Asia. Parts of the desert locust ‘invasion...

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Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways pnas.org/content/early/2020/…

Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways...

Seasonal animal movement among disparate habitats is a fundamental mechanism by which energy, nutrients, and biomass are transported across ecotone...

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Pope Francis pulled his hand away from a woman in a crowd in St Peter's Square after this awkward altercation. For the latest videos, head here: news.sky.com/videos

Pope reacts angrily as woman grabs his arm

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Gravitational-like forces in insect swarms - Dr Andy Reynolds at @Rothamsted explains the surprising similarity in behaviour of a collection of stars and insect swarms ow.ly/ZVzo50x9HHe #Interface #openaccess
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