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Great interaction with industry at the 7th South Australian Weeds and Pest Conference. Held 24 and 25 September 2025 at University of Adelaide.

#molluscs #invasive_ecology

New blow for South Australian #beekeepers already enduring drought & low honey production with routine PIRSA surveillance detecting #varroa mites in hives east of Waikerie that were moved from Qld with permit. #agsky #beesky

Biological invasions: a global assessment of geographic distributions, long‐term trends, and data gaps Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of ...

Read our latest paper on the trends and statuses of #biologicalinvasions worldwide.
Led by @hannoseebens.bsky.social , L Meyerson, P Pyšek and D Richardson and ~60 other coauthors, and based on Chap2 of the #IAS #IPBES Report, it has all the basic info you need!
A MUST READ!
doi.org/10.1111/brv....

No need to worry about attention to detail, ai will replace proof readers.

Good old Microsoft will add an axis title.

Final hard copy of Primary Industries and Regions SA report.

Everyone loves tardigrades (especially at the LinnSoc), but is tardigrade love-making affected by water? Here, the effect of anhydrobiosis (life without water) on mate choice & reproductive stress was studied, finding females laid fewer eggs but no delay on mate choice! 🌍🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...

J’ai eu le plaisir une nouvelle fois d’écrire pour le magazine Le Couvert Boréal un article sur les #champignons forestiers, où je donne quatre bonnes raisons de croire qu’ils sont bien plus qu’une simple histoire de comestibilité 🍄

afat.qc.ca/numeros/ete-...

Riparian revegetation zone, heavily cleared.

Top revegetation work here. Scalped all the native tussock grass to plant back in some native tussock grass.

Lamaroo silo art.

Five one month old black keeled slugs / arena demolish emerging canola.

Seed flare on the right didn't help.

Good morning from south west Victoria.

Research reveals best plant seed mixes for pollinators and people New research involving the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has identified the best plants to include in annual flowering displays to attract bees and hoverflies, enabling gardeners, councils and see...

Well done, @abigaillowe.bsky.social - Nice work and so helpful!

Research reveals best plant seed mixes for pollinators and people | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Seed flare right
Bare seed left
F2 Regent canola

Let's see any effect of black keeled slug feeding.

#whoneedsstats when you take a photo

Harnessing Microbes to Weather Native Silicates in Agricultural Soils for Scalable Carbon Dioxide Removal

🔗 buff.ly/aX25nYs

Great final PhD seminar on ecology of #tradigrades #universityofmelbourne

#Conicalsnails mating 25 Apr 2025 southern Yorke Peninsula. Real time monitoring indicated increased activity from the 20 Apr. Lab assay indicates snails are actively feeding. Field observations this week conical snails on baits.
#timetogetiton #MetarexInov

A tail-wagger #snail ( #Sheldonia sp.) from Wilderness, South Africa (march 2025). What a weird little thing! It made my day when I saw it!

#mollusks #gastropod #SouthAfrica #macrophotography #bugsky

When you can just rest on a dandelion 🌞

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?

96% of Australians want more done to protect nature. Meanwhile, just 0.06% of the budget went to on-ground biodiversity programs.

We’re losing species we love & major parties are sleepwalking through it.

Australians care. It’s time politicians did too.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture - Plant and Soil Background and aims Interspecific belowground interactions can facilitate phosphorus (P) uptake in cereal/legume intercropping. However, the role of mycorrhizal symbioses and their interaction with ro...

📣Our latest paper with Thom Kuyper is out in Plant & Soil! 🌱 Another step forward in unraveling the mysteries of mycorrhizal networks ✨. Check it out! 🔍📄 🌱
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two days on Sunshine coast #NovetelTwinWaters at #AgNova meeting.
Misnomer rained the entire time.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We are opening a permanent #INRAE research engineer position in agroecosystem modeling/simulation in our BioEcoAgro research unit (www.bioecoagro.eu), in France, Hauts-de-France region! ⤵️

I’m in the Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie where I’ve set up a makeshift grasshopper brothel in a cabin at a caravan park. In this historically male-dominate town of humans one of the grasshoppers - Warramaba virgo - is all female …

Stay safe

🔬 On Pikovskaya agar, phosphate solubilization is key! Left: a microorganism forms a halo 🟢, releasing phosphate. Right: no halo ❌, no solubilization. Microbes matter for soil fertility! 🌱🦠

#Microbiology #SoilHealth #PhosphateSolubilization

A snail with alternating ivory and dark brown stripes in a spiral on a leather-brown leaf.

The striped spiral #pattern of a brown-lipped snail. 🐌📷
#blueskyartshow #snails #inverts #nature #photography

🌱 study found strong relationships between 1) soil available nitrogen concentration & nitrogen uptake rates and 2) soil available nitrogen contribution in soil & nitrogen uptake preference. So if nitrate was prevalent in soil then plants preferred nitrate uptake.

Nitrogen availability in soil controls uptake of different nitrogen forms by plants Nitrogen (N) uptake by plant roots from soil is the largest flux within the terrestrial N cycle. Despite its significance, a comprehensive analysis of plant uptake for inorganic and organic N form...

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interesting, maybe a balance N supply for plants is needed in modern farming systems.

Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields - npj Biodiversity npj Biodiversity - Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields

Old-growth, unique, & rich ecosystems are usually structured by limiting nutrient availability. Eutrophication is driving the loss of species, communities, and ecosystems to a greater degree at present than any other dimension of change. So I'm not surpised at all.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat pointing at a bird in a rice field.

Bittern poking its head up out of a crop of rice.

Today was only a little bit awesome. 60% of the endangered Australasian bitterns in Oz nest in rice crops in the Riverina. Sometimes working lands can work for wildlife, too. #wildoz #bitternsinrice

Can indigenous carabid beetles confer biotic resistance to invasion of native grassland remnants by alien slugs? - Biological Invasions Invasive alien slugs alter plant community assemblages via selective herbivory, yet evidence of their impacts on indigenous plant species in threatened Australian native grasslands are scarce. Carabid...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paper on black keeled slug control in Australian grasslands