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27 June 2025

RES Insect Garden Event – Insect Week 2025

Join us Saturday 28 June to Stand Tall for the Small This Saturday 28 June, the Royal Entomological Society is hosting a free, family-friendly day at the RES Insect Garden in Stratford Cross, near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as part of Insect Week 2025 and is calling on everyone…

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25 June 2025

MPs pledge to stand up for insects at the launch of the new All Party Parliamentary Group for Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates

MPs gathered in Westminster this Insect Week to pledge their support for insect life at the launch of a new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) that will champion bees, pollinators and invertebrates. Bringing together MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum, the APPG for Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates aims…

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24 June 2025

Virtual Issue – Insect Week 2025

This year, the Royal Entomological Society’s Insect Week is focused on insect decline and what we can do to address it. This is a key theme in our ongoing project to address the key issues facing entomology, highlighted in the article Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming…

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24 June 2025

Insect responses to global change – Journal Highlight

What do we know about insect responses to global change?   First published: 02 June 2025 A new review article has implications for policies focusing on protecting habitats with native and diverse plant communities, as well as regulating the use of pesticides, in order to help mitigate the negative impacts of…

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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,…