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20 November 2025

Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods – Journal Highlight

First published: 19 November 2025. An exciting and unusual article published in RES journal Insect Conservation and Diversity explores how social media can help provide data for cat predation on arthropods: “Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods”. Social media has become an increasingly important part of daily…

4 November 2025

RES Welcomes New Gold Level Organisational Member: UKCEH

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) is delighted to welcome the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) as a Gold Level Organisational Member. This partnership marks a significant step in strengthening the Society’s mission to advance insect science, education, and conservation through collaboration and shared expertise. The Gold Level Organisational…

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1 November 2025

Can we consider cognitive abilities in insects? – Journal Highlight

First published: 28 October 2025. A recent review article in Physiological Entomology posits that brain structures associated with associative learning in beetles are very flexible, due to diverse adaptive pressures and lifestyles. In recent years, the ability of associative learning and related brain structures has become one of the most attractive…

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27 October 2025

RES Strengthens International Collaboration in Insect Conservation

The Royal Entomological Society Conservation Team is currently in Denmark, continuing vital work to understand insect populations and biodiversity in these areas. This week has seen the team retrieve and download temperature data loggers from three key monitoring sites – part of ongoing research to assess habitat conditions and long-term…

26 October 2025

RES Welcomes New Gold Level Organisational Member: BASF

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) is delighted to welcome BASF as a Gold Level Organisational Member. This partnership marks a significant step in strengthening the Society’s mission to advance insect science, education, and conservation through collaboration and shared expertise. Gold membership offers organisational partners access to a wide suite of…

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25 October 2025

Do salt marsh mosquitoes migrate? – Journal Highlight

First published: 23 October 2025. An Editorial published in Medical and Veterinary Entomology, “The migratory behaviour of salt marsh mosquitoes: Revisiting the evidence” asks whether long-distance movements by salt marsh mosquitoes should be considered migratory. And if so, what is the nature of this migration and why does it matter? Many…

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21 October 2025

How climate shaped the evolution the diversification of Messor harvester ants – Journal Highlight

First published: 03 September 2025. A recent study by Juvé et al. published in Systematic Entomology reveals the evolutionary history of Messor harvester ants, a genus adapted to arid environments that developed some of the most complex reproductive systems known so far. By analyzing 2,524 genetic loci from 58 species, researchers…

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20 October 2025

OA Week 2025 – Why Open Access Matters

October 20 – 26 2025 As part of Open Access Week, we’re taking a moment to highlight what makes our Society journals so vital — not just for scientists, but for everyone who cares about insect science, biodiversity, and the public good. Open access (OA) means that anyone, anywhere, whether…

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16 October 2025

Working with us to support insect science

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) has been working with partners both nationally and internationally to advance the study of insects, and to support a broader understanding of their roles in local, national and global ecosystems. Ways to Support the Royal Entomological Society As a registered charity and learned Society we…

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15 October 2025

Meet the Editor: Cecilia Tamborindeguy

Cecilia Tamborindeguy became an Editor-in-Chief on Insect Molecular Biology in 2024. research interest is in the molecular interactions between hemipteran insects, their plant hosts and associated microbes (pathogens and symbionts). Cecilia is a truly global researcher – read on to find out more! Cecilia on a trip to Ecuador for…

News headline thumbnail for Could flower exports contribute to vectors of livestock and equid arboviruses? – Journal Highlight

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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