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23 June 2025

PoMS Annual Report 2024

It’s Insect Week 2025 – an opportunity to celebrate the small creatures that run the world and encourage public interest to help bridge gaps in scientific data and knowledge. Insects are the Earth’s dominant form of animal life, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite…

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23 June 2025

The RES urges the British public to stand up for insects – Insect Week 2025

To mark the start of RES Insect Week 2025, the Royal Entomological Society is calling on the British public to #StandTallForTheSmall and take the Insect Week pledge – a commitment to discover, observe and protect insects in all their fascinating variety. Insects are the most diverse and abundant group of…

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20 June 2025

RES partnership with The Rawcliffe Bridge Award for Sustainability

The Royal Entomological Society announces partnership with The Rawcliffe Bridge Award for Sustainability to promote insect science among UK farming community The Royal Entomological Society (RES) is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Rawcliffe Bridge Award for Sustainability, organised by leading agricultural solutions company BASF. This partnership is…

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18 June 2025

Trustee Elections 2025

Want to shape the future of the Royal Entomological Society? We have an exciting opportunity for trustees to join the RES team from September 2025. We are looking for candidates ready to actively contribute to the governance and strategic direction of the Society in key areas, including fundraising, marketing, finance, publishing, education and more.…

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12 June 2025

The Evolution of Jumping Spiders: a phylogenetic framework for Euophryini – Journal Highlight

The Evolution of Jumping Spiders: a phylogenetic framework for Euophryini. First published: 16 January 2025 Read the paper RES journal Systematic Entomology has recently begun considering papers on myriapods and arachnids (see here for further information). The article, “Phylogeny of euophryine jumping spiders from ultra-conserved elements, with evidence on the…

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11 June 2025

RES Journal Awards 2024

Image: Ambulyx Sp., Common Gliding Hawkmoth, Photo credit (c) Pritha Dey, Ecological Entomology Winner 2024 We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Royal Entomological Society Journals awards for the best articles led by early career entomologists, published during 2024. The winners were selected by the Editors’-in-Chief of…

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10 June 2025

Welcoming New Editors-in-Chief for Systematic Entomology

The RES is delighted to welcome on board three new Editors-in-Chief for Systematic Entomology, Ligia Benavides, Chris Owen, and Emmanuel Toussaint. They will join Bonnie Blaimer (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany) and Gael Kergoat (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, France) in editing the journal. The new Editors-in-Chief replace Christiane…

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5 June 2025

Arachnid and Myriapod articles welcome: an expanded scope and new Editor-in-Chief for Systematic Entomology

Systematic Entomology has been publishing continuously since 1936, first as Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B: Taxonomy, and as Systematic Entomology since 1976. Our scope has evolved over the years and in recent years we have focused on publishing high-quality systematics, phylogenetics and integrative taxonomy research of broad biological,…

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5 June 2025

New book – How to be a Ladybird

How to be a Ladybird by Laura Knowles, Steven Wood Published 5 June 2025 Embark on an astounding journey with a newly hatched ladybird as they navigate the wonders and challenges of ladybird life, encountering a host of captivating insect characters, in an exciting graphic novel format. Guided by the…

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2 June 2025

Meet the Editor: Jordan Cuff

Jordan became an Editor-in-Chief of Agricultural and Forest Entomology (AFE) in 2024, but has been a member (now Fellow) of the RES since his student days. AFE covers a wide range of topics, including research on insect pests, pollinators, and natural enemies in managed forests and agroecosystems.  Tell us a…

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