What better way to finish the week then submitting my PhD thesis and having a few drinks to celebrate 🥳

Can non-floral resources on farms enhance pollinator diversity and abundance, and does this lead to increased yield? In our new paper, we experimentally test this idea with a focus on fly biodiversity.

RT @notsocrabbyabby: It's easy to assume that any insect visiting a flower is a pollinator. But not all visitors are effective pollinators,….

Happy to announce that today I have started a new position as a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University. Looking forward to working on insect IPM and climate change, though it might take me a while to get use to this cold ❄️

New paper out! Does the culling of large herbivores have any indirect impacts on other species? Yes, we found ground-dwelling beetle populations were negatively impacted after the culling of sika deer on Nakajima Island in Japan.

RT @FiebergJohn: I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libr….

New paper out! We discuss the need for a multidisciplinary approach to postmortem interval research, and introduce a new conceptual framework that highlights the multiple interdependencies affecting decomposition.

RT @notsocrabbyabby: Our new paper on crop-pollinating flies has been published! We reviewed 431 fly species found globally & compiled thei….

RT @Butterworthbugs: New paper! Invertebrates are the backbone of rainforest ecosystems. But how genetically diverse are their populations?….

RT @Butterworthbugs: What is an ephemeral resource patch? How do their dynamics drive evolution and shape ecosystems? We discuss these ques….

Captured some nat geo level footage of Green Tree Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) creating an ant bridge at Wooroonooran National Park, very cool behavior!

Final PhD chapter has just been published! We compared different decomposition metrics on pig and human cadavers. We also devised a unique method to measure mass loss by using a converted scaffold unit.

Ch. rufifacies are hairy maggots that often act as facultative predators. Watch as a small mass of Ch. rufifacies maggots feed upon a smooth C. stygia maggot.

New research out! We explored how coexistence is achieved between two blowfly species, Chrysomya rufifacies and Calliphora stygia. We found coexistence was dependent on priority effects and larval densities @Butterworthbugs

RT @ck_isabella: New paper out! I’m very excited about this publication, it’s been a long time coming. We investigated the sublethal impact….

New paper out! We investigated the relationship between insect abundance patterns and carrion resource quality. Our findings show how resource quality may drive competition and variation in carrion insect community succession.

RT @Butterworthbugs: Calliphora pryori - a stunning new species of "golden blowfly" from Australia described by @nature_nik and James Wallm….

RT @Butterworthbugs: New paper out! These three Australian #flies have taken sexual selection to the extreme! Females fight males, males fi….

RT @nature_nik: 1/3 Excited to announce a Monograph I have been working on for the last 4 years is now published. This paper revises the en….