Tuomas Kankaanpää

Sounds nifty. I want DNA and RNA hoovers for other applications as well.

New publication! In our review published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social : we discuss what is climate change experienced by life on Earth 💧🌡️❄️ Led by @linegreis.bsky.social @evagril.bsky.social @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @jlembrechts.bsky.social and @kvanmeerbeek.bsky.social 📜 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Relationships between meteorological factors and mosquito vector density in an Urban District of Shanghai, China (2018–2024) doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors #Culicidae #Aedes #VectorDynamics @wileyecology.bsky.social

A gallery of mosquitoes.

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Diapausing adult female #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) in overwintering sites in Estonia in 2023–2024: Species composition and variation doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors @wileyecology.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Investigating the association between weather variables and #Aedes albopictus abundance in Windsor, Ontario doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors #Culicidae #InsectAbundance @wileyecology.bsky.social

Nice publication from Sam in our group. Setting evolutionary relationships right one chunk at a time.

1/ Nature is in peril. Drastic declines and specialist species struggling is what the Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data & published by Defra, show. Here’s what we know ⬇️ The All Bird Species Index shows 19% declines in the UK since 1970. This comprises 132 species. 📉 #Ornithology

"State of the climate 2026" was published yesterday. A sobering but important read Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESAppEnt Testing the transferability of image-based automated insect detection under different light conditions doi.org/10.1002/3070... #EntoMethods #InsectMonitoring @jordancuff.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New paper out on the future impact of extreme weather events on butterflies in Italy - 🦋❄️🌡️⛈️ Lead by @dinobiancolini.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @euracalpenv.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Short summary of our recent paper. I am glad our European Red List was shown to be impartial! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📖 New research Beta diversity of Arctiinae moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) along a recovering tropical forest gradient🦋 🌳 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/vKlxwr4

Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

Biodiversity shapes human health and human well-being...but how do we measure those connections? That´s the challenge I discuss in my contribution for the new Biodiversity and Health FACTS Report from the Veolia Institute. Full report: www.institut.veolia.org/en/publicati...

🥑 A gall midge species, Bruggmanniella perseae, has been identified as the cause of fruit deformation in avocado crops in Mexico, with six parasitoid species discovered that naturally control this damaging insect pest: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.99.200280

Our paper on the rather large genome (1.08Gb) of the agricultural pest blueberry gall wasp is now out as a preprint. We also looked across chalcidoid genomes and found the genome size variation is largely driven by transposable element proliferation. 🧪 #Ormyridae #Hemadasnubilipennis

I'm sorry, what now? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exec Summ: Citizen science data often miss species because people tend to record sightings only where public access is easy. To get a complete picture, we need to encourage people to log common species near their homes and at the same time improve access to private natural areas for rare species.

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Body size and wing shape responses of #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) to contrasting environmental conditions in cold-temperate Argentine Patagonia doi.org/10.1111/mve.... @wileyecology.bsky.social

An american kissing bug species was found a year ago in a hotel in Lisbon. Such an introduction would be very troublesome as Spain, and I guess also Portugal, have a relatively high hidden prevalence of Chagas disease. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch

Still doing this personal project of finding, photographing and illustrating the geometer moths of Finland. About 70 of the 300 or so species done. Not likely to ever be completed, but a lot of fun regardless! #SciArt

#Butterfly ranges are shifting on every continent, with #climatechange and #extremeweather associated with 79% of recorded movements. A global study of 1,758 species also reveals major monitoring gaps in biodiversity-rich tropical regions. DOI: doi.org/rh8j

Are you interested in #gulls, diet metabarcoding, or both? Of course you are! Check out our new preprint where we use molecular methods to decode the (animal-based) diet of lesser black-backed gulls - arguably a species with one of the most diverse diets out there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Systematic differences in #phenology estimates from unstructured and structured #biodiversity datasets doi.org/10.1111/icad.70098 #Lepidoptera #InsectMonitoring @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Images courtesy of article authors

Waiting for the sun to make even a tiny appearance to capitalize on the final chance to collect a cloudberry pollinator sample on this Northern Enontekiö ice cored mire. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora

eDNA methods are opening new possibilities for biodiversity monitoring. But what is still needed for routine use? The recording of our webinar with Tiina Laamanen and Kristian Meissner from SYKE is now available: www.biodiversa.eu/2026/06/14/u...

Started fieldwork this week. Cloudberry started flowering alreadly, which means scrambling to collect pollinators. Cloudberry herbivore Boloria freija was out and about too. Got many malaise traps up, but not all. Well there's still snow up north. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

Practical use for bloodsucking insects.

Cool, shapes of melanosome sized structures in a well preserved skin fossil of a young Diplodocus suggest light speckles on a dark base colour.

How fungus gnats, and their names, can make science more inclusive. Believe it or not! scientistseessquirre... 🧪🌍🪲🪳

Add enough environmental noise to a mosquito-borne disease model and epidemics that R0 says should happen simply don't. But at intermediate noise, you get the biggest outbreaks. New paper in PLOS Comp Biol with Kyle Dahlin, Karin Ebey, and John Vinson. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New research in #RESSystematicEnt Phylogenomic analysis of #Chelonus (Hymenoptera: #Braconidae): Systematics and coevolution with endogenous bracoviriforms doi.org/10.1111/syen.70047 #UCEs #Phylogenomics @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

📣 New Preprint, out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social... Resource abundance can buffer trophic mismatch in a caterpillar-passerine food-chain 🌳→🐛→🐦 w/ @kenandlindasmith.bsky.social, @piedflynet.bsky.social et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K... ...or scroll for some highlights 🧵👇 1/4

Paper 19 is out: Conrad Schittko et al conducted a synthesis across a number of publicly available ALAN datasets that investigated effects of light intensity on ecological responses. The work highlights how many responses to ALAN occur at low (sub-lux) doses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ants like a morning pick-me-up too! “… under low to intermediate caffeine concentrations, ants were 38% faster with each consecutive visit, implying that caffeine boosts learning.” Bonus point for the ant people in the graphical abstract. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #science #biology #animals

Research station staff called my sampling sites (six tent like traps each) extermination camps even though they didn't even have any nzi traps. Anyway, Stomoxys (muscidae) are cosmopolitan bloodsucking pests.

New research in #RESPhysEnt #Voltinism of the wild mulberry #silkmoth, #Bombyx mandarina (Lepidoptera: #Bombycidae), is defined by spring temperature and autumn daylength in Japan doi.org/10.1111/phen.70041 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New #RSOS paper: Unveiling the patterns and drivers of scientific and societal interest in Brazilian #lepidopterans: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Ecological drivers of St. Louis #encephalitis virus activity in #mosquito communities from Argentine agroecosystems doi.org/10.1111/mve.70066 #InsectVectors #Culicidae #InsectBorneDiseases @wileyecology.bsky.social Photos courtesy of article authors

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv finds that #DistributionModels of polysphinctine #parasitoid wasps (#Ichneumonidae) reveal sampling bias & flag potentially overlooked host #interactions doi.org/10.1111/icad.70077 @riosdeciencia.bsky.social @marceloog3.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social