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Unarmed Stick Insect (yes, that really is its name) at Trebah Gardens in Cornwall.

"Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insect"
#Insects #Butterflies #Climate

Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects
The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.

Mosquito population suppression models with seasonality and d-concave equations
Rodrigo Fern\'andez-Mart\'inez, Alfonso Ruiz-Herrera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05807 htt…

Mosquito population suppression models with seasonality and d-concave equations
The sterile insect technique has emerged recently as a biologically secure and effective tool for suppressing wild mosquito pests. To improve the performance of this strategy, understanding the interaction between wild and sterile mosquitoes is critical. Although the common models for this biological problem are scalar equations, they are remarkably resistant to the mathematical analysis. In a series of papers, Dueñas, Nuñez, and Obaya have developed a powerful approach to describe the dynami…

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#food

How eating insects became a conspiracy theory
Insect protein is healthy and sustainable. But now it is also at the centre of a far-reaching conspiracy theory.

🦗 Genomics can help insect farmers avoid pitfalls of domestication
https://theconversation.com/genomics-can-help-insect-farmers-avoid-pitfalls-of-domestication-261357

Genomics can help insect farmers avoid pitfalls of domestication
Considering how easily bird flu swept through chicken farms, it’s clear that domestication has downsides. Lessons from the past paired with modern genomic technology can help with farming insects.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
Parker McDonnell, Lingsheng Meng, Hari Krishna Hariprasad, Alexander Hedrick, Eduardo Miscles, Samuel Gilinsky, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Kaushik Jayaram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23719

Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) uses its soft antennae to guide decision making by extracting rich tactile information from tens of thousands of distributed mechanosensors. Although tactile sensors enable robust, autonomous perception and navigation in natural systems, replicating these capabilities in insect-scale robots remains challenging due to stringent size, weight, and power constraints that limit existing sensor technologies. To overcome these limitations, we introduce CI…

Bifurcation in dynamic problems with seasonal succession
Gonzalo Galiano, Juli\'an Velasco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05694 https://

Bifurcation in dynamic problems with seasonal succession
We investigate the bifurcation structure of equilibria in a class of non-autonomous ordinary differential equations governed by a season length parameter, $τ$, which determines the alternation between growth and decline dynamics. This structure models biological systems exhibiting seasonal variation, such as insect population dynamics or infectious disease transmission. Using the Crandall-Rabinowitz bifurcation theorem, we establish the existence of a critical threshold $τ^*$ at which a bif…

I'm repairing my relationship with the insect kingdom

Debates over biological control are resurfacing
as U.S. entomologists seek to do something about a new pest in their cross hairs:
the spotted lanternfly,
a winged insect that feasts on vineyard vines, fruit and forest trees.
Baby lanternflies start to hatch in May and begin to grow into adults over the summer.
Come July, millions of people on the East Coast, from New York to Virginia, will start to see lanternflies overhead and on the ground.
Some models p…

Opinion | Squashing Spotted Lanternflies Will Get Us Only So Far. We Need Wasps.
Is it wise to use one organism to combat another invasive one?

Transforming drab alleys into insect havens with the Pollinator Pathways Project in Bristol. Creating vital habitats for pollinators and connecting people with nature to combat declining insect populations. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Insect Numbers Are Plummeting: Here Are Eight Easy Ways to Help #environment

Insect Numbers Are Plummeting: Here Are Eight Easy Ways to Help
There are things you can do to help with the bug crisis, and when you support insects they will help your garden thrive.

In *today's* #WatchDogsLegion was a prophecy, not a video game:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/beekeeper-unleashed-a-swarm-of-b…

Beekeeper Unleashed a Swarm of Bees on Police During Traffic Stop
A routine seatbelt stop turned into an insect ambush when a 70-year-old beekeeper allegedly sicced his bees on two traffic officers...

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 83 nodes and 335 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Spotted this tiny praying mantis peeping in our window. I think just under 2 centimeters long. I tried to get my index finger in for scale.
#prayingmantis #Insects #WildLife

"Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline"
#Music #Insects #Animals

Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline
Music and science collide in Moth x Human, a new composition by violinist Ellie Wilson that transforms moth flight data into a haunting tribute to these overlooked pollinators

Insect-Wing Structured Microfluidic System for Reservoir Computing
Jacob Clouse (School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Thomas Ramsey (Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Samitha Somathilaka (School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Nicholas Kleinsasser (School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Sangjin …

Insect-Wing Structured Microfluidic System for Reservoir Computing
As the demand for more efficient and adaptive computing grows, nature-inspired architectures offer promising alternatives to conventional electronic designs. Microfluidic platforms, drawing on biological forms and fluid dynamics, present a compelling foundation for low-power, high-resilience computing in environments where electronics are unsuitable. This study explores a hybrid reservoir computing system based on a dragonfly-wing inspired microfluidic chip, which encodes temporal input pattern…

Flowers with butterfly. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. December, 2017. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #butterfly

Effective resource allocation to combat invasions of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) and similar pests
Daniel Str\"ombom, Julianna Hoitt, Jinrong Hu, Swati Pandey, Elizabeth Batchelar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01117

Effective resource allocation to combat invasions of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) and similar pests
The spotted lanternfly is rapidly establishing itself as a major insect pest with global implications. Despite significant management efforts, its spread continues in invaded regions, and refined management strategies are required. A recent study introduced a model that generalized the results of empirical control efficacy studies by incorporating population dynamics and incomplete delivery. In particular, a generalized population growth formula was derived, providing the minimum proportion of …

And ... some more #insects from the eastern #Sauerland, this time from the Blütengarten - #Bruchhausen Sunday. A paradise for insect photographers, even if you have only a simple smartphone at hand.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 69 nodes and 187 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Biological Processing Units: Leveraging an Insect Connectome to Pioneer Biofidelic Neural Architectures
Siyu Yu, Zihan Qin, Tingshan Liu, Beiya Xu, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Jason Brown, Joshua T. Vogelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10951

Biological Processing Units: Leveraging an Insect Connectome to Pioneer Biofidelic Neural Architectures
The complete connectome of the Drosophila larva brain offers a unique opportunity to investigate whether biologically evolved circuits can support artificial intelligence. We convert this wiring diagram into a Biological Processing Unit (BPU), a fixed recurrent network derived directly from synaptic connectivity. Despite its modest size 3,000 neurons and 65,000 weights between them), the unmodified BPU achieves 98% accuracy on MNIST and 58% on CIFAR-10, surpassing size-matched MLPs. Scaling the…

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
[1/1]:
- Insect-Wing Structured Microfluidic System for Reservoir Computing
Clouse, Ramsey, Somathilaka, Kleinsasser, Ryu, Balasubramaniam

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 110 nodes and 718 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #yellow

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Six Decades Post-Discovery of Taylor's Power Law: From Ecological and Statistical Universality, Through Prime Number Distributions and Tipping-Point Signals, to Heterogeneity and Stability of Complex Networks
Zhanshan (Sam), Ma, R. A. J. Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18154

Six Decades Post-Discovery of Taylor's Power Law: From Ecological and Statistical Universality, Through Prime Number Distributions and Tipping-Point Signals, to Heterogeneity and Stability of Complex Networks
First discovered by L. R. Taylor (1961, Nature), Taylor's Power Law (TPL) correlates the mean (M) population abundances and the corresponding variances (V) across a set of insect populations using a power function (V=aM^b). TPL has demonstrated its 'universality' across numerous fields of sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This universality has inspired two main prongs of exploration: one from mathematicians and statisticians, who might instinctively respond with a convergence theorem s…

A triangular moth I saw in the woods yesterday amid the wreckage of leaves that it ate
#photo #photography #moth #insect

#photography #bloomScrolling #beetle #insect