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SUMMARY:Insect Hour: Pesticides\, dogs & insect declines
DESCRIPTION:Insect Hour: Pesticides\, dogs & insect declines\n\n\n\nWelcome to the first event in our online talk series exploring Grand Challenges in Entomology.  \n\n\n\nInsect Hour will be held every second Wednesday of the month* from 1pm-2pm (UK time). All are welcome – talks are free to attend and open to both RES members and non-members. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend below\, grab a cuppa or sandwich and join us on Zoom! There will be time for questions and discussion towards the end of the session. \n\n\n\n* Excluding August\, September\, and January \n\n\n\n\nRead more about Insect Hour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalk summary\n\n\n\nThe extent and rate of insect declines are much discussed\, and with the recent Call for Evidence on veterinary medicines containing fipronil or imidacloprid making global headlines\, this talk is highly relevant and not one to miss. \n\n\n\nDave will focus on one driver of insect declines – our use of pesticides. He will highlight the global extent of pesticide use\, but with a particular focus on use in gardens and as flea and tick treatments on domestic pets. He will explain the latest evidence that these uses are resulting in widespread contamination of rivers with potent insecticides. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be chaired by one of the RES Trustees or Events Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\nDave Goulson\, Professor of Biology at University of Sussex \n\n\n\nDave has published more than 350 scientific articles on the ecology of insects. He is the author of Bumblebees (OUP 2010)\, and of several bestselling popular books including A Sting in the Tale (2013)\, A Buzz in the Meadow (2014)\, The Garden Jungle (2019) and Silent Earth (2021)\, collectively translated in 20 languages. \n\n\n\n\n\nGoulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006\, a charity that has grown to 12\,000 members.  \n\n\n\nAwards: Zoological Society of London’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology (2013); elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2013); British Ecological Society Public Engagement Award (2014); Zoological Society of London’s Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology (2020).  \n\n\n\nIn 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the most influential people in conservation. In the 6 years 2018-2023 he was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thompson ISI. He is an “Ambassador” for the UK Wildlife Trusts. 
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