🕷 In Brazil’s Serra do Japi, we’re tracking the world’s rare social spiders! Violette Chiara & Tristan Robineau from MIZ PAS, with Prof. João Vasconcellos Neto of @unicampoficial.bsky.social, are collecting species to uncover how sociality influences behavioural and physiological trends in spiders.

🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h!
Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ, @trigos-peral.bsky.social ) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by @igue-aeet.bsky.social . Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities!
🔗 rb.gy/hvikb1

The vulnerability of New Caledonia’s ecosystems to destruction by deer 🦌 is underscored by the fact that the island’s vegetation 🌱 evolved in the absence of large herbivores – the only native mammals there are bats 🦇
#NewCaledonia #Drones #EcosystemConservation #InvasiveSpecies #ThermalImaging

Nature inspires innovation! 🐞💡
Our team from the MIZ PAS visited the school in Jazgarzew with the project “Nature’s Inventions – Inspirations for the Future.” Students explored bionics and discovered how animal and plant designs inspire modern engineering. #Bionics #ScienceEducation #MiIZPAN

The flightless beetles of the tribe #Dorcadionini (Col: Cerambycidae) in #CentralAsia are similar but not closely related. Their first phylogeny is now out in a paper led by @ceramb.bsky.social of MIZ PAS. Environmental adaptation could play a key role here. @ncn.gov.pl
👉https://tinyurl.com/yy9kp2ab

💡 New paper co-auth. by MIZ!
By altering the physical and chemical properties of the soil, soil-nesting ants can shape the biodiversity of soil microarthropods — a key role for conserving urban biodiversity. 🐜More info 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020
#UrbanEcosystems #Ants #SoilMicroarthropods #Conservation

Hidden in museum drawers for 100+ years, Africa’s mysterious Eurynotina beetles finally tell their story - uncovered by our researchers, Marcin Kamiński and Ryan Lumen, using DNA from century-old specimens. 🧬🪲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen...
#taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA

Join the upcoming hybrid MIZ PAS seminar!
"Nonhuman Culture: An Overview of Behavioral Diversity in Our Primate Cousins"
📅When: 24th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET
📍 in-person: Twarda 51/55, Warsaw
🔗on-line: tinyurl.com/38k8p33s
👉Speaker: Dr Thurston Cleveland Hicks
#behaviour #primates #nonhumanculture

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!
👉When: 10th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET
👉Speaker: Dr Grzegorz Neubauer, MIZ PAS @mizpas.bsky.social
👉Title: "50 years of Białowieża Forest bird studies: past, present, future”
👉Link: tinyurl.com/3jztwhyk
Everyone is welcome!
#ornithology #forest