And they’re off! 🪽 Four new pigeon lofts have been opened by The Vice-Chancellor at the John Krebs Field Station, increasing capacity by 200% and supporting a £1m BBSRC project exploring how birds navigate in a changing world.

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PhD project is available via @treesdla.bsky.social with @evolecollab.bsky.social and @kratina.bsky.social to study trophic interactions between invasive mosquitofish, their prey, competitors, and predators 🐟 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...

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CASE PhD project is available @treesdla.bsky.social with @fabrizia-ratto.bsky.social and Mark Lee @rhulbiology.bsky.social on reintroduction of the Black-veined White butterfly in the UK www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/rew...

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Is this bumblebee knitting?🧶 Female bumblebees collect pollen by brushing the fine grains out of their hair and into the pollen baskets on their hind legs. Still, how cute would it be to see bumblebee queens wrapped in tiny woolly jumpers as they settle down to hibernate over winter?

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Love #Weevils? Here are some Eupholus nickerli from New Guinea (looking at the labels, quite possibly #Wallace specimens) at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. The vibrant colours are ‘structural colours’ produced by refraction, so don’t fade over time. 25-30mm (1”) long. #Coleoptera #Entomology

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