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I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

'Half the tree of life': ecologists' horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects (Tess McClure/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p106#a250603p106

"The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals - and you"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

The iNaturalist Sounds Dataset
Mustafa Chasmai, Alexander Shepard, Subhransu Maji, Grant Van Horn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00343 https://

The iNaturalist Sounds Dataset
We present the iNaturalist Sounds Dataset (iNatSounds), a collection of 230,000 audio files capturing sounds from over 5,500 species, contributed by more than 27,000 recordists worldwide. The dataset encompasses sounds from birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians, with audio and species labels derived from observations submitted to iNaturalist, a global citizen science platform. Each recording in the dataset varies in length and includes a single species annotation. We benchmark multi…

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
#insects

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death - Energy Vanguard
The Mosquito Bucket of Death is a safe and environmentally sound way to rid your yard of mosquitoes. Here's how you make them.

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.

Good Morning #Canada
Conservationists who focus on restoration of wetlands are increasingly "Leaving It To Beaver." Beavers are considered the ultimate Keystone Species because they area they re-engineer offer benefits to many other species, and an entire ecosystem can collapse if a Beaver is removed. A Beaver dam doesn't just hold and conserve water. Beavers increase the population of frogs, fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and extend the range of larger mammals like moose, deer, and bears. The quantity and variety of vegetation are increased. Water is filtered and saturates the land, refilling artesian wells. It's unbelievable that we almost lost this amazing creature because of a hat fashion trend.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/01/01/leave-it-to-beavers-keystone-species-provides-nature-based-restoration/

Peacock trying to impress a Peahen. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. June, 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birds

"Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them"
#Insects #Gardning

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

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/insects-dying-25-easy-and-effective-ways-you-can-help-aoe

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.

Terrible backlit photos of bird this morning feeding at insects at corner of the windows. Quite active and hard to see well, but still very sure it is a female american redstart from the very distinct yellow bands on the tail with a very dark tip. #birds #birdsofmastodon

wunderschöne schnake <3 #insekten #insects

Breakthrough discovery shows that moths listen to plants — and avoid the noisy ones
#news

Breakthrough discovery shows that moths listen to plants — and avoid the noisy ones
Researchers have documented for the first time that insects can hear and react to plants’ acoustic distress signals, which are inaudible to human ears.

These damn insects are going to turn me into a misogynist.

This is another horrifying statistic to shelve alongside the composition of global mammalian biomass:
• humans 34%
• livestock and pets 62%
• wild animals 4%
#science #biology #ecology

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image …Here are some highlights (lowlights): “If you drop all that old life into the container that we call Earth, and burn them, it turns out that what we burn in *1 year* weighs 100x more than everything alive today. Everything. All the whales, elephants, forests, insects, grass, crops, birds, fish, people, dogs and cats. Add up all the carbon in everything alive now, and still, in one year we burn a hundred times more.” #climateDiary

🐛 What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
#insects

What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up with their ideal nutritional needs.

"Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future"
#Bees #Insects

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future
WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected. It’s an important question because the bees are critical to the fruit, vegetables, nuts and other foods that humans need. Scientists have found […]

More #insects from that crowded common #hogweed (I think) in the German #Sauerland. IDing all the bugs will take time (and a larger screen, am on travel with just a cellphone).

my flowers bring all the bugs to the yard
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #bugs

Did you know wood bugs are more closely related to lobsters than other insects? Yeah, they are the only land-dwelling crustacean.
No one told me. I nay have a plate full tonight... lightly done on the Bbq!

More #insects, this time with just a smartphone while hiking in the eastern #Hochsauerlandkreis in the #Sauerland near the small Silbersee - enormous traffic on just one plant.

""Some estimates hold that Americans eat around a kilogram of insects annually — without incident, and maybe even a little added nutrition. ""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfZf43dnj8

Red soldier beetles getting frisky on hmm not sure what the plant is.
Apparently they like to snack on the cinnabar moths that I saw recently.
#wildlife

A critical phase transition in bee movement dynamics can be modeled using a 2D cellular automata
Ivan Shpurov, Tom Froese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11592 …

A critical phase transition in bee movement dynamics can be modeled using a 2D cellular automata
The collective behavior of numerous animal species, including insects, exhibits scale-free behavior indicative of the critical (second-order) phase transition. Previous research uncovered such phenomena in the behavior of honeybees, most notably the long-range correlations in space and time. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the bee activity in the hive manifests the hallmarks of the jamming process. We follow up by presenting a discrete model of the system that faithfully replicates some o…

"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

grasshopper chilling in the sun
#photography #insects #grasshopper #bloomScrolling

🐝 Voracious honey bees threaten the food supply of native pollinators
#bees

Voracious honey bees threaten the food supply of native pollinators
The majority of Earth's plant species, including our crop plants, rely on the services of animal pollinators in order to reproduce. Honey bees and other pollinating insects annually contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy, and are responsible for nearly a third of the food that ends up on our tables.

Want more #insectsofmastodon? Some more pictures of #insects on our balcony in #Bochum, Germany, seen yesterday during further experiments with macro gear.

Continuing the mid-July #macrophotography sessions from our balconies in #Bochum, Germany, here is a neat but tiny spider: more pictures of the insects and the #spider in https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10230872107761144 - the pattern on the back of the latter's abdomen hints at it being a male Araneus diadematus, a European garden spider, as seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus_diadematus#/media/File:Araneus_diadematus._Male_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire_(1).jpg

Scientists Find First Evidence of Auditory Interaction Between Animals and Plants: Study #environment

Scientists Find First Evidence of Auditory Interaction Between Animals and Plants: Study
In the first study of its kind, scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have documented an acoustic interaction between insects and plants.

Early experiments in catching #hoverflies in flight ... dunno why the wings are completely blurred in one picture but very sharp in the other, both were at 1/500 second with the flash fired. Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ300 with macro lens. #insectsofmastodon #insects

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Moonlandingz:
🎵 The Insects Have Been Shat On
#TheMoonlandingz
https://open.spotify.com/track/5475caBBBP0JN3l39CCqdl

Distilling Spectrograms into Tokens: Fast and Lightweight Bioacoustic Classification for BirdCLEF 2025
Anthony Miyaguchi, Murilo Gustineli, Adrian Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08236

Distilling Spectrograms into Tokens: Fast and Lightweight Bioacoustic Classification for BirdCLEF+ 2025
The BirdCLEF+ 2025 challenge requires classifying 206 species, including birds, mammals, insects, and amphibians, from soundscape recordings under a strict 90-minute CPU-only inference deadline, making many state-of-the-art deep learning approaches impractical. To address this constraint, the DS@GT BirdCLEF team explored two strategies. First, we establish competitive baselines by optimizing pre-trained models from the Bioacoustics Model Zoo for CPU inference. Using TFLite, we achieved a nearly…

"Scientists embark on crucial study to save Britain's bees"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Bees #Insects

Scientists embark on crucial study to save Britain's bees

more green grasshopper
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #grasshopper

"‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

"Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025
Following on from ‘the year without a butterfly’, 2025 has seen sightings soar in the UK and across Europe.

Bug crawls on the disc of a daisy family flower
#photo #photography #flowers #insects

"Butterflywatch: British populations thrive thanks to record sunny spring"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

"Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects