Dear Hymenopterists,
The Natural History Museum, London, is looking for a senior curator of bees. Details can be found here: https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_1864.aspx Please note that the deadline is on 29 January.
Dear Hymenopterists,
The Natural History Museum, London, is looking for a senior curator of bees. Details can be found here: https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_1864.aspx Please note that the deadline is on 29 January.
The student travel awards have been created to support and encourage postgraduate students working on the systematics, ecology, physiology or some other aspect of the insect order Hymenoptera, which is being undertaken as part of a postgraduate program (MSc, PhD or equivalent qualification).
For this round, the Society is pleased to be able to offer four travel awards to support full-time postgraduate students to present their research at the International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki, Finland (19-24 July 2020). These awards are being funded by the ISH itself and by the ISH Endowment Fund, and two types of awards with different eligibility criteria are offered:
Please contact the Secretary of the Society (Natalie Dale-Skey; n (dot) dale-skey (at) nhm (dot) ac (dot) uk ) for more information and details of the application and selection process.
The deadline to apply for these awards is 7 December 2019.
If you are interested in hosting the 10th Congress of the Society in 2022 please submit a 1-2 page proposal to our President and President-Elect (Barb.Sharanowski [at] ucf.edu, lars.krogmann [at] smns-bw.de):
The Society will be holding a meeting during the ESA annual meeting in Vancouver (11-14 November 2018 –https://www.entsoc.org/events/annual-meeting/about-2018).
We will have a students’ symposium, and I am delighted to announce that Brian Fisher, from the California Academy of Sciences, will be giving a talk:
Why are entomologists sitting on the conservation sidelines? Insects and People (IPSIO.org): efforts to end the silence on habitat loss in Madagascar.
Insects are everywhere, yet invisible in most conservation efforts. Since terrestrial ecosystems make no sense except in light of insects, this is short-sighted and unfortunate. The time is now for entomologists to end their silence on the loss of insect habitats. After all, how much tropical forest will be left in 50 years?
Madagascar, a locus of biodiversity research, is a prime example. Since 2001, we have inventoried over 350 localities across the island, visiting all major habitats, soil types and bioclimates, processing millions of specimens, training students, and collaborating with 180 taxonomists. Despite the scale of this effort, knowing the name of any insect, its habits, its distribution, whether it is endangered, or whether it is invasive remains difficult. Given the breakneck speed of habitat destruction, shouldn’t we try to apply our knowledge to protect habitats, monitor ecosystems, and link the health of humans to that of the natural world.
Large-scale biodiversity inventories have failed to save a single forest. The current entomological effort could be characterized as haphazard and opportunistic and does not focus on concrete conservation advances. Instead, taxonomic advances are driven by individual interests and not on collective need.
The Insects and People of the Southwest Indian Ocean (IPSIO) network aims to help entomologists focus their efforts on local outcomes. IPSIO provides the organizational infrastructure to translate taxonomic research into conservation improvements, providing vetted data for conservation assessments, forest restoration, and invasive species monitoring. Other efforts include using insects as food and insects in tourism.
Dear ISH members
Registration is now open for the 9th ISH Congress that will take place 23-27 July 2018 in Matsuyama, Japan.
You can register and pay via this link.
Information on the Congress is available on the Congress website.
Please circulate this widely to help grow attendance at the meeting and ISH membership!
The 9th Congress of the Society will be held in Matsuyama City, Japan, from 23 to 27 July 2018, with two collecting trips to be organised in connection with the meeting. The registration fee has not been finalised yet but is estimated to be $300-350 (for early bird registration) and $200 for students.
Some information can already be found on the website (still under construction) of the Organizing Committee:
A revision of the North-Western Palaearctic species of Pristiphora Latreille, 1810, has just been published as a special issue of the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, and is now available online: