A mixed bag
Asian hornets in Spain via Ray Cannon
Unusual dragonfly behaviour via the Bug Blog
Practice what you preach – ecologists shouldn’t fly, I certainly don’t 🙂
Charley Krebs asks how randomly do ecologists sample and does it really matter?
Steffan Lindgren reviews Alexander von Humboldt
This is the link to the paper reporting the huge decline in insect abundance that made all the headlines the other week. Scary stuff.
This is a link to Manu Saunders’ excellent blog post putting those same headlines in perspective
A great post about why anyone from any background should be able to study and work in science
A poem about how some flowers help bees find them using nanoscale ridges
Using natural history collections as primary data for ecological research
Don't Forget the Roundabouts 