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9 October 2025

Could flower exports contribute to vectors of livestock and equid arboviruses? – Journal Highlight

First published: 28 August 2025. A recent article published in Medical and Veterinary Entomology, “Investigation of the global transportation of Culicoides biting midges, vectors of livestock and equid arboviruses , from flower-packing plants in Kenya”, investigates whether Culicoides biting midges, tiny insects that can carry serious livestock viruses, are being accidentally exported from…

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2 October 2025

New book – How to be a Dragonfly

How to be a Dragonfly by Laura Knowles, Steven Wood Published 2 October 2025 Paperback | £7.99 | 9780241685860 Meet Chase, a newly hatched dragonfly, as he learns to navigate pond life. From mastering the art of jet propulsion to metamorphosis, readers will learn all there is to know about…

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1 October 2025

Royal Entomological Society selected for Yeo Valley Yeokens scheme

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) is delighted to have been chosen as one of this autumn’s featured charities in the Yeokens scheme, run by Yeo Valley Organic. Use Yeokens to raise money for good causes Through Yeokens – Yeo Valley’s customer rewards scheme – members of the public can donate…

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29 September 2025

How temperature and humidity affect a common fungal parasite in an invasive ladybird – Journal Highlight

First published: 17 September 2025. The Royal Entomological Society journal Ecological Entomology has recently published an article on which factors influence the growth of a parasitic fungus on an invasive ladybird. The researchers highlight that, while the ladybird has spread globally and is threatening local species, very little is known about…

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29 September 2025

Best Learned Society Award 2025

RES awarded Best Learned Society in 2025 MemCom Excellence Awards We are proud to announce that the Royal Entomological Society has won the Best Professional Body or Learned Society category at the Memcom Excellence Awards 2025. The award recognises the outstanding achievements of professional bodies, membership organisations, and associations, highlighting…

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26 September 2025

Do host insects benefit from parasitic Wolbachia which does not manipulate hosts’ reproduction? – Journal Highlight

First published: 15 September 2025. A recently published article from Physiological Entomology, “Coinfection of Mesenetia and rescuing Wolbachia in the coconut hispine beetle”, is the first report of coinfection of mod−/resc+ Wolbachia and other cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) inducers, which explains why Wolbachia in coinfected hosts does not induce CI.   Maternally transmitted bacterial symbionts can manipulate…

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24 September 2025

Welcome to our newly elected Trustees and President Elect

The Royal Entomological Society is pleased to officially announce the results of its recent Trustee Elections which gave members the opportunity to vote for new trustees to help guide the Society’s mission to advance insect science worldwide. From this September, we are delighted to welcome both re-elected and newly appointed…

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22 September 2025

Why We Are Celebrating Wasps This September

Why We Are Celebrating Wasps This September: Inspired by Endless Forms. When most of us think of wasps, we picture our picnics under siege or a sharp sting we’d rather forget. But this September, inspired by reading RES Trustee Professor Seirian Sumner’s brilliant new book Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps,…

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15 September 2025

Peer Review Week 2025

It’s Peer Review week (15-19 September 2025) and the perfect opportunity to say thank you to all the reviewers from across the world who review for our journals. As a Learned Society, we value the time and effort of reviewers beyond measure. Like many Learned Societies, our journals provide a…

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9 September 2025

Q&A: Restoration and rescue in an age of extinction – an Insect Conservation and Diversity Special Issue – Journal Highlight

Jaret Daniels and Nusha Keyghobadi have recently guest edited a special issue for RES journal Insect Conservation and Diversity: Restoration and rescue in an age of extinction: advances in arthropod translocation and reintroduction. Here we find out more about Jaret and Nusha, as well as the special issue.  Tell us…