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  1. @StrepsipZerg

    I have several very big colonies of black garden ant (Lasius niger) in my small garden, where they — much to my dismay — are undermining tiled areas.

    Now I am wondering: What are the ants doing during the winter? Do they sleep? Or do they just stay indoors and feast on stored food? Or do most of the worker ants die so that a colony starts almost from scratch come springtime?

    #askfedi
    #entomology
    #Lasius 🐜
  2. Blind taste test shows that despite prejudices #consumers cannot distinguish between greens grown without soil in vertical faming and #organic veggies & herbs. Vertical cultivation saves space, allowing #rewilding of agriculture land: science.ku.dk/english/press/ne #neophobia #landuse

  3. fascinating - and ignoring everything we (should) have learned about #LandUseChange, #agriculture, #water, #NitrogenPollution, #ecosystems, #HANPP and how this relates to #ClimateChange, #insectapocalypse, #biodiversity, #OceanDeadZone . Oh yes, and the cost of food as food ag competes with fuel ag for product. But sure, let's call it #Sustainable. That's why we have #BrandMarketing specialists.

    Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1

  4. fascinating - and ignoring everything we (should) have learned about #LandUseChange, #agriculture, #water, #NitrogenPollution, #ecosystems, #HANPP and how this relates to #ClimateChange, #insectapocalypse, #biodiversity, #OceanDeadZone . Oh yes, and the cost of food as food ag competes with fuel ag for product. But sure, let's call it #Sustainable. That's why we have #BrandMarketing specialists.

    Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1

  5. fascinating - and ignoring everything we (should) have learned about #LandUseChange, #agriculture, #water, #NitrogenPollution, #ecosystems, #HANPP and how this relates to #ClimateChange, #insectapocalypse, #biodiversity, #OceanDeadZone . Oh yes, and the cost of food as food ag competes with fuel ag for product. But sure, let's call it #Sustainable. That's why we have #BrandMarketing specialists.

    Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1

  6. fascinating - and ignoring everything we (should) have learned about #LandUseChange, #agriculture, #water, #NitrogenPollution, #ecosystems, #HANPP and how this relates to #ClimateChange, #insectapocalypse, #biodiversity, #OceanDeadZone . Oh yes, and the cost of food as food ag competes with fuel ag for product. But sure, let's call it #Sustainable. That's why we have #BrandMarketing specialists.

    Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1

  7. CW: Long thread/17

    Here's the latest example to cross my path: the #FTC has intervened in a lawsuit over generic insulin pricing, on an issue that is incredibly technically specific and also fantastically important:

    fiercepharma.com/pharma/ftc-bl

    The underlying case is before the FDA, and it concerns the dirty tricks that pharma giant #Sanofi used to keep #Mylan from making a generic version of Mylan's #Lantus insulin after its patent expired.

    17/

  8. x.com/samjoiner/status/1715307

    Apologies this comes the other place, but is an interesting and important topic

    - how does UK make best use of productive land to feed ourselves AND deliver NetZero commitments?

    Links to an FT article (paywall if direct access but works if linked through X).

    Article based on a new RSPB paper here: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/

    #landuse #netzero #FutureFarming #EatLessMeat

  9. x.com/samjoiner/status/1715307

    Apologies this comes the other place, but is an interesting and important topic

    - how does UK make best use of productive land to feed ourselves AND deliver NetZero commitments?

    Links to an FT article (paywall if direct access but works if linked through X).

    Article based on a new RSPB paper here: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/

    #landuse #netzero #FutureFarming #EatLessMeat

  10. x.com/samjoiner/status/1715307

    Apologies this comes the other place, but is an interesting and important topic

    - how does UK make best use of productive land to feed ourselves AND deliver NetZero commitments?

    Links to an FT article (paywall if direct access but works if linked through X).

    Article based on a new RSPB paper here: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/

    #landuse #netzero #FutureFarming #EatLessMeat

  11. x.com/samjoiner/status/1715307

    Apologies this comes the other place, but is an interesting and important topic

    - how does UK make best use of productive land to feed ourselves AND deliver NetZero commitments?

    Links to an FT article (paywall if direct access but works if linked through X).

    Article based on a new RSPB paper here: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/

    #landuse #netzero #FutureFarming #EatLessMeat

  12. _Lasius_ nuptial flight in High Park the other day! The small bright yellow workers solicitously coax the winged reproductives out of the nest so they can take flight, mate, and found nests of their own.

    These yellow ants have always creeped me out a bit. Their holes are very large, big enough to put your finger into, but the ants never seem to go in and out; they sit clustered just inside the entrance.

    Apparently many _Lasius_ species live entirely underground tending root-feeding aphids and are only seen at the surface for nuptial flights. Maybe that's what I've been seeing—the workers waiting to escort the alates out.

    #bugstodon #antstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #macro 🐜

  13. Lasius nearcticus woodland ants with eggs in the brood nest. Western New York.

    #Lasius #Insects #Ants

  14. 🥳🍾🥂👏 Successful online MSc defence by Romana Lampl @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck on #LasiusFuliginosus population genetics.

    Congrats to you, MSc. Romy, and thanks to examiners @julesibk and @birgit_sattler !

    @femtech #ants #conservation #ecology #noninvasivesampling

  15. 🥳🍾🥂👏 Successful online MSc defence by Romana Lampl @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck on #LasiusFuliginosus population genetics.

    Congrats to you, MSc. Romy, and thanks to examiners @julesibk and @birgit_sattler !

    @femtech #ants #conservation #ecology #noninvasivesampling

  16. 🥳🍾🥂👏 Successful online MSc defence by Romana Lampl @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck on #LasiusFuliginosus population genetics.

    Congrats to you, MSc. Romy, and thanks to examiners @julesibk and @birgit_sattler !

    @femtech #ants #conservation #ecology #noninvasivesampling

  17. 🥳🍾🥂👏 Successful online MSc defence by Romana Lampl @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck on #LasiusFuliginosus population genetics.

    Congrats to you, MSc. Romy, and thanks to examiners @julesibk and @birgit_sattler !

    @femtech #ants #conservation #ecology #noninvasivesampling

  18. @jimmerthatisall

    "an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants."

    Ok but this guy is hilarious. Even more so since #Lasius is one of the most common genera of #ants and lol he clearly didn't win this one.

  19. An exciting workshop for those followers that are in the North East and want to learn more about the benefits and implications of growing perennial biomass crops like Miscanthus and SRC willow: loom.ly/kLh4Qzw

    #PerennialBiomassCrops #FarmDiversification #CarbonStorage #FloodMitigation #Biodiversity #NorthEast #Workshop #Farmers #LandManagers #LandUseDecisionMakers

  20. Hat etwas gedauert, aber jetzt kommt langsam Leben in die Bude. Winterruhe scheinen sie also gut überstanden zu haben. #ameisen #lasiusniger

  21. Land-use planning, relief programs, and advanced water systems for new developments are some of the drought management and water conservation strategies highlighted in the latest edition of our solution newsletter.

    Check it out at mailchi.mp/unl.edu/dry-horizon.

    #landuseplanning #water #waterconservation #drought #solutions #science