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New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ The Welch Lab Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Check out my #EntSoc24 talk today (2:54pm, room 129B) on hover fly migration! I’ll be discussing our recent review published in Ecological Entomology. Come see the wonderful illustrations by co-author @EntoSamm! ESA Early Career Professionals Committee Entomological Society of America Andrew D Young Illinois State School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State

Moth-trapping at CIMA, Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain, 8th October 2024. Stunning moth highlights included; Chevron Snout & Leucinodes laisalis. Julie Williams Dr Will Leo Hawkes James Lowen Fundación Migres #spanishmoths #teammoth facebook.com/permalink.php?…

I'm going to be telling stories all about the wonders of fly migration this weekend at Natural History Museum !! Sign up here: dipterists.org.uk/news/agm-dipte…

If anyone is joining the great migration to bluesky and would like to keep up with the insect migration work I'm posting over there, here is my profile: bsky.app/profile/willle…

Moth-trapping at CIMA, Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain, 9th October 2024. Stunning moth highlights included; Crimson Speckled & Silver Y. Julie Williams Dr Will Leo Hawkes James Lowen Fundación Migres #spanishmoths #teammoth facebook.com/permalink.php?…

Moth-trapping at CIMA, Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain, 10th October 2024. Amazing moth highlights included; Chevron Snout & Caloptilia coruscans. Julie Williams Dr Will Leo Hawkes James Lowen Fundación Migres #spanishmoths #teammoth facebook.com/permalink.php?…

My message to young climate activists at #COP29: I count on you and you can count on me. We need a strong youth movement for #ClimateAction - now more than ever. The climate crisis is the most important battle of our lives. We must win it.

Moth-trapping at CIMA, Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain, 10th October 2024. Great moth highlights included; Agrotis lata & Ectoedemia erythrogenella leaf-mines. Julie Williams Dr Will Leo Hawkes James Lowen Fundación Migres #spanishmoths #teammoth facebook.com/permalink.php?…

A new muscid genus just added to Falk Flickr flickr.com/photos/6307520…. Lispe has 10 British representatives. They love the bare wet mud of upper saltmarsh, river banks and lake margins. Both adults and larvae are predatory. Adults have an elaborate courtship.

Dagger Flies (Empididae) a fascinating group of flies with 103 species occurring in Ireland. I have now digitised the historic and more recent records which are now available online here: maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/366?or… I look forward to expanding this dataset over the coming years.

Moth-trapping at CIMA, Tarifa, Andalucia, Spain, 11th October 2024. Excellent Micro-moth highlights included; Etiella zinckenella & Hydriris ornitalis. Julie Williams Dr Will Leo Hawkes James Lowen Fundación Migres #spanishmoths #teammoth facebook.com/permalink.php?…

Many excellent talks at the Dipterist Day at the NHM London. A diverse range of talks from Diptera migration, Muscidae study group, fossil diptera taxonomy and studying dark taxa - Cecidomyiidae. It was great to catch up with diptera folk. 😁

There's a fly who flew all the way to Marion Island in Antarctic waters, making them the only known fly migrant in Antarctica! My brother & I have reimagined Evil Scarecrow's Ballad of Brother Pain to tell the tale. Here is... the Ballad of Brother Fly youtu.be/ETET8HVN7bA?si…

Migratory hoverflies fly further – but not faster – than their non-migratory relatives according to research from University of Exeter CEC. brnw.ch/21wP3fH Uni of Exeter's ESI Dr Will Leo Hawkes

We've just published some brand new insect migration research in iScience! We found that Marmalade hoverfly migrants are marathoners, not sprinters. Led by Richard Massy of University of Exeter Longer video: youtu.be/DevlGE68PVg?si… Full Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Migration is a marathon – not a sprint – for hoverflies 🪰 Migratory hoverflies fly further – but not faster – than their non-migratory relatives, new research shows. 💻 Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Photo credits: Will Hawkes #Migration #Hoverflies #Hoverfly