Voracious Honey Bees Threaten the Food Supply of Native Pollinators
Researchers raise concern of native species being outcompeted by non-native honey bees, which were found to extract nearly 80 percent of available pollen in a day at a key hotspot of bee biodiversity. Paper first published: 07 July 2025Press release by University of California, SanDiego. Media contact: Mario Aguilera, maguilera@ucsd.edu The majority of the earth’s plant species, including our crop plants, rely on…
Meet the Editor: Manu Saunders
Manu began working on Insect Conservation and Diversity in 2022 and has a passionate interest in community ecology. Insect Conservation and Diversity is the RES journal that has a focus on biogeography, climate change impacts, conservation genetics, and global biodiversity. Tell us a bit about the person behind the title Editor-in-Chief. I grew up in a rural area and succeeded…
An update from the RES Conservation Science team 2025
Spring is a busy time for us as the conservation science team at the Royal Entomological Society (RES). Each year we work on Large Blue Butterfly sites in Somerset and Gloucestershire, installing temperature data loggers which will monitor soil temperature between April and October every 20 minutes. Spring is also the time of year where we undertake ant surveys of…
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