Royal Entomological Society

Insects as Food & Feed - IAFF22 hybrid conference - 2022
2022-04-26 09:30 - 2022-04-27 17:00 (Europe/London) | Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD
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In 2022 the annual Insects as Food and feed conference will be held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK over the two days of April 26th & 27th, and online on zoom.

Listen to some informative talks around the subject of insect protein, the benefits, ethics and issues surrounding the rearing of insects and their uses in pathology, industry, agriculture & farming, cattle feed and protein for human and non-human animal consumption.

The keynote speaker will be Arnold van Huis, Emeritus professor, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Arnold will talk about “Edible insects: progress and prospects”.

View the programme:

IAFF Programme – Final 26042022Download

Conference is kindly supported by Michelmores:

The Michelmores Sustainable Agriculture practice are dedicated to working with businesses whose technologies and practices are tackling the most pressing issues facing the agriculture sector: climate change and biodiversity loss.

Conference is also supported by ADAS:

ADAS is committed to an active role in the local communities within which it operates, contributing towards local sustainability.

Pricing Guide

In-person prices

Non-member RES in-person: £60 per person per day (£90 for both days) (full price, discounted if attending both days)

Member RES in-person: £20 per person per day (£40 for both days) (33% full price)

Student RES member in-person: £10 per person per day (£20 for both days) (15% full price)

Online prices

Non-member RES online: £30 both days

Member RES online: Free both days

Student RES member online: Free both days

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Free Tickets (Online only)

To get your free ticket to the online event, you’ll need to be a member. (£65/year inc. discounts, apply for membership here)

Student members get their first year free. (£15.00 / year with 1 year free trial)

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EntoSci
2022-04-25 09:00 - 17:00
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Watch back some of the talks at EntoSci here

EntoSci, the conference for young people about insect science, will return in 2022 as an online event, hosted by Harper Adams University in collaboration with the Royal Entomological Society.

The event is aimed at 14 to 18 year olds, it aims to excite and educate about entomology, the science of insects; and inspire the career paths in entomology, from school to higher education through to employment.

Confirmed speakers include:

Prof. Adam Hart, University of Gloucestershire

Prof. Seirian Sumner, University College London

Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra, University of York

Dr Heather Campbell, Harper Adams University

Stefan Gates, Presenter & Author

Dr Amoret Whitaker, University of Winchester

Graham & Janice Smith, Metamorphosis Consultancy

Dr Amma Simon, Keele University & University of Nottingham

Will Hawkes, University of Exeter

Claire Hoarau, Harper Adams University

Jennifer Jones, JBA Consulting

Graham Smith, Butterfly Conservation

Confirmed exhibitors include:

Amateur Entomologist’s Society

British Dragonfly Society

Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Royal Horticultural Society

Slug Disco Studios

Mission: Invertebrate

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

British Ecological Society

Fera Science

Field Studies Council

European Congress on Orthoptera Conservation (ECOC) III - 2022
2022-04-01 09:00 - 2022-04-02 17:00
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The third European Congress on Orthoptera Conservation will be held 1-2 April 2022, in Leiden (the Netherlands).

The third European Congress on Orthoptera Conservation (ECOC III) and 16th Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Orthopterologie (DGfO) will take place on 1-2 April, in Naturalis, Leiden (the Netherlands). In total 138 participants from 31 countries have registered for this event. 62 people will be present in Leiden, 76 people will follow the congress online. The pdf of the program book is now available. It is possible that last minute changes will occur in the program.

Registration is via the Grasshoppers of Europe website.

Young Verrall Lecture 2022 (online)
2022-03-05 16:00 - 17:00
How is climate change affecting insects? What does this mean for us and what can we do about it?

Join the Amateur Entomologists’ Society and Royal Entomological Society for a talk by Professor Camille Parmesan to discover more.

This talk, aimed at young entomologists, particularly those 11-14 years, but open to all will be held online using Zoom Webinar.

Brief BIO 2022

Camille Parmesan is Director of Research at the CNRS Station for Experimental and Theoretical Ecology (SETE, in Moulis, France) as a French “Make Our Planet Great Again” Laureate. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on wild plants and animals and spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She has also authored numerous assessments of impacts of climate change on agricultural pests and on human health, through changes in disease risk. Her 2003 paper in Nature was ranked the most highly cited paper in Climate Change (Carbon Brief, 2015). Her scientific awards include being the 2nd highest-cited author in “climate change” (T Reuters) and being named the “2013 Distinguished Scientist” by Texas Academy of Sciences. She has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. She received the Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation and was named “Outstanding Woman Working on Climate Change,” by IUCN. She has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for >20 years, and is an official Contributor to IPCC’s Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. She is currently a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She also has affiliations with the University of Plymouth (UK) and the University of Texas at Austin (USA).

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2022 Verrall Lecture (online)
2022-03-02 16:00 | https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/2022-verrall-lecture/
Hot off the Press from IPCC: Insects in a Warming World

The speaker for the Verrall Lecture 2022 will be Professor Camille Parmesan.

Find out about the history of the Verrall Lecture.

Camille Parmesan is Director of Research at the CNRS Station for Experimental and Theoretical Ecology (SETE, in Moulis, France) as a French “Make Our Planet Great Again” Laureate. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on wild plants and animals and spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She has also authored numerous assessments of impacts of climate change on agricultural pests and on human health, through changes in disease risk. Her 2003 paper in Nature was ranked the most highly cited paper in Climate Change (Carbon Brief, 2015). Her scientific awards include being the 2nd highest-cited author in “climate change” (T Reuters) and being named the “2013 Distinguished Scientist” by Texas Academy of Sciences. She has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. She received the Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation and was named “Outstanding Woman Working on Climate Change,” by IUCN. She has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for >20 years, and is an official Contributor to IPCC’s Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. She is currently a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She also has affiliations with the University of Plymouth (UK) and the University of Texas at Austin (USA).

Student Forum 2022
2022-02-17 10:00 - 2022-02-19 17:00
A poster depicting the Temple of Peace in Cardiff with insects on the background, created by @CharlieZoology for the RES Forum 22

The Royal Entomological Society Student forum returns for 2022!

The event will be from 10am-5pm Thursday 17th and Friday 18th February

The Forum will take place both in person at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff, UK and online.

Registration is via Eventbrite.

RES student members can attend for free, but registration is needed.

View the programme.

RES forum 2022programmeDownload

View the posters:

Dawn Morgan: Overview of Forensic Entomology Teaching and Research in the United Kingdom

Linzi Jay Thompson & Alison O’Reilly: Investigating the effects of pesticides on bumblebee diapause and colony initiation

Robert Calvert: Agriculturally relevant arthropod venom peptides. A systematic review identifying known insecticidal venom peptides, knowledge gaps and recommendations for their future development for crop protection

Sara Rooney: Microbial controls of arboviruses in UK mosquito species

Charlie Woodrow: Reviving the sound of a 150-year-old insect: the bioacoustics of Prophalangopsis obscura

Max Tercel: Invasive ants devastate local community diversity, as revealed by a global meta-analysis

Manuela Carnaghi: Unpicking multimodal synergism of host stimuli to attract and catch host-seeking Anopheles mosquitoes

Julius Okwomi Olumeh: Combating Tuta absoluta on Solanaceous Vegetables Using Fungal Entomopathogens in an Integrated Pest Management Program Done

Convenors (RES student representatives)

Free tickets

To get your free ticket you’ll need to be a member and to register via Eventbrite. Student members get their first year free.

Entomology courses

UK university courses that include entomology

Award opportunities

RES Student Award

Wallace Award for your thesis

Ento21
2021-08-23 08:00 - 2021-08-27 17:00
We are delighted to invite you to Ento’21 Online

Join the Royal Entomological Society’s annual meeting dedicated to insect science online and the global entomological community, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations.

We have an excellent programme of speakers and topics, and online poster rooms to browse.

AGM 2021

RES-Annual-Review-2020_21 FINALDownload

Download the RES Annual Review 2020-21 here: RES-Annual-Review-2020_21.pdf

2021 Annual Report: RES-Annual-Report-2021.pdf

2021 AGM minutes: RES-AGM-2021-Minutes-Final.pdf

Read more about the RES AGM

Posters:

Poster Room 1

Poster Room 2

Poster Room 3

Poster Room 4

Poster Room 5

Programme:

Ento’21 Programme WITH ABSTRACTS 23082021Download

Welcome Slides:

Ento21 Welcome SlidesDownload

EntOlympics Winner Announcement:

Ento21-EntOlympics-Quiz-Winner-AnnouncementDownload

Want to know more about the history of Ento?

Visit the Ento Conference hub
