NEXT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
THE APHID SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
Visit the meetings page for registration forms and more details on these forthcoming meetings
Global Conference on Entomology 2011
March 5-9, 2011. Chiang Mai Thailand
For more details please visit the website, http://entomology2011.com
Marsh Award for Insect Conservation 2010
The 2010 winner is Dr Roger Key in recognition of his outstanding and exemplary contribution to Insect Conservation
Originally from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire,Roger's PhD was in the Humber’s estuarine invertebrates and was followed by work as development officer for the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust. Thence to the Nature Conservancy Council/ English Nature & Natural England he worked on conservation of invertebrates and their habitats for over 20 years, covering protected species, habitat evaluation, site defence and management advice. Roger eventually become senior specialist in invertebrates, before capitalizing on the educational work that he did in that role – from kids’ minibeasts safaris to supervising PhD studentships – to become Senior Education Specialist for Natural England. Roger eventually retired (early!) to become an independent ecological/entomological/ environmental educational consultant where his work includes lecturing/advising course content for 11 universities and continuing children’s invertebrate work.
For the best paper published in the following Journals during 2008/2009
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
CELIA K. BOONE, DIANE L. SIX and KENNETH F.RAFFA
Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2008), 10, 411-421.
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
REMY WARE, BENJAMIN YGUEL and MICHAEL MAJERUS
Ecological Entomology (2009), 34 (1), 12-19.
INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
CHRIS D. THOMAS, CAROLINE R. BULMAN and ROBERT J. WILSON.
"Where within a geographical range do species survive best? A matter of scale"
Insect Conservation and Diversity (2008), 1 (1), 2-8.
INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
E.MAORI, N.PALDI, S.SHAFIR, H.KALEV, E.TSUR, E.GLICK and I.SELA .
Insect Molecular Biology (2009), 18 (1), 55-60.
Prizewinners for the Student Essay Award 2009 are as follows:-
FIRST PRIZE £300
Lue Cuttiford - Imperial College
“Insects: The incidental investigators.”
RUNNER UP £200
Borame Dickens - Imperial College London
“Carmine: The Colour of Desire?."
THIRD PRIZE £100
Chris Ayre - University of Plymouth
RES FELLOW AWARDED OBE FOR TSETSE FLY RESEARCH
Glyn Vale, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, has been awarded an OBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Glyn’s award is in recognition of his services to controlling and eradicating tsetse flies in Africa. He is a leading researcher on tsetse behaviour and the use of bait technologies for controlling the tsetse.
Glyn has devoted the last four decades of his professional work to this research, initially focusing on the improvement of tsetse trapping methods for assessing the effectiveness of baiting techniques for tsetse.
Glyn and his colleagues went on to develop better ways of using pesticides against the tsetse fly, while reducing cost and causing little damage to the environment. Research undertaken by the team showed that most tsetses feed on the legs and belly of cattle. By restricting application of insecticide to these parts, the use of insecticide can be reduced by more than 80 per cent.
His work in this area has been recognised previously; he was a finalist in the World Technology Awards for the Environment in 2003, and he and his team were also short listed for the Times Higher Education Supplement Research Project of the Year in 2007.
RES President Professor Lin Field said: “Congratulations to Glyn on his OBE honour from the Members and Fellows of the RES. His scientific research has already had a considerable effect in Africa and we are delighted that his expertise is being recognised”.
