Elena Gagnarli

🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

Pleased to be part of this important letter led by @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social, calling for greater global action to protect soil biodiversity! A timely publication also because today is #WorldEarthwormDay 🌍🪱

Hi Frank! I am a soil acarologist and I'd be very happy to be included in this edaphic group!

GSB4 Conference — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

Hey #soil #taxonomists! Have you described a species in the last 5 years? Tell us about in our Free + Open Submission event Name Drop! New species unveiled faster than you can say Linnaeus www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4 #soilbiodiversity @thegsbi.bsky.social

XXVIII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia - giornate belle, interessanti e tante nuove idee!

Too fast! Who is this long-haired #wild_bee??

Image description: graphic representation of the soil food web. Shown are primary producers: plants and organic substrates; herbivores and decomposers: root-feeding nematodes, fungi and bacteria; microbial grazers: collembolans, mites, nematodes, flagellates; tertiary consumers which are various types of nematodes)

One thing you don’t see when looking at soil is all the energy exchanges happening in the #soil! This is called the “soil food web.” Shown: fungi that live in the soil. Read our #GroundedInSoils blog to learn more! bit.ly/3v644Us

The Spring edition of the UKBMS eNewsletter is winging its way to all active Surveyors. Some great updates, tips and reminders and we hear about a long-running transect at Insh Marshes in the Highlands.
Best enjoyed sat some spring sunshine with a 🍵 🫖
buff.ly/vI0PgHx

PEEKABOO! Have you ever stumbled upon these teeny🪲 #Cryptocephalinae larvae? Their curious #myrmecophilous edaphic life as poo-powered💩 #case-bearers is poorly documented. We found them associated with #ants🐜 in high #pastures🐏 of the #Majella🏔️ National Park( #Abruzzo). #SOIL-BIOHUT project

毎年この時期に同じ倒木で見ているヨロイエダヒゲムシたち
マットな質感の背面装甲の重なり合いや揺れ動く触角の動き、短い脚…と良さが詰まっている生き物のひとつ。
警戒すると触角や脚をしまってぺたんとなる仕草がとても良い。

Although many invertebrates and other less-charismatic groups are key for ecosystem service provision, they and their functions are rarely included in conservation strategies. Benoit Guénard, @achughes.bsky.social et al show how funding largely goes to charismatic rather than threatened species 🌐🧪🪲

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks Nature - Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

https://go.nature.com/3QLda3z

Visual representing the diversity of soil organisms that can be considered as invertebrates (a lot), arthropods (a bit less), and insects (a lot less).

To people referring to soil invertebrates as 'insects', I have a visual for you. You could say this really bugs me. 🧪

Hello!😀I’m starting my adventure on #Bluesky with the soil #mites team at the Research Centre x Plant Protection🌱 &Certification in #Firenze! Follow our quirky little projects focusing on the ecological role of #microarthropods🕷️ in #soil_functionality x stop #land_degradation & #biodiversity loss⬇️

Global food systems are broken—driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and hunger for over 800M people.

Agroecology offers a way forward, blending local and scientific knowledge for food systems that serve people and nature.

🔗: bit.ly/3EpRLab

#TreesPeoplePlanet

"When you live in darkness, the first pair of long #legs helps a lot! Especially if they are equipped with sensory structures (setae or hairs) to detect vibrations, chemical signals, or movements in the #labyrinth of #soil pores." by #Linopodes sp