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Guidance: Travel with assistance dogs: transport companies and routes
Check the air, sea and rail carriers registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency to transport assistance dogs with their owners.
Read source →Guidance: Rabies quarantine: authorised premises and carriers
List of rabies quarantine premises and transporters authorised by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Read source →Watch: how a White Peak beef farmer uses herbal leys
In the latest film in our White Peak herbal leys series, beef farmer James Frost shares how he establishes and manages herbal leys to support forage quality, soil health and biodiversity.
Read source →Welcome to our newly elected Trustees
The Royal Entomological Society is pleased to officially announce the results of its recent Trustee Elections which gave members the opportunity to vote for new trustees to help guide the Society’s mission to advance insect… <a href="https://w
Read source →The RES HQ acquires new base in London
Help Shape the Future of Our New Home! We’re delighted to announce that the Royal Entomological Society has officially moved into a new building this autumn, which will give us our own dedicated home in… <a href="https://www.royensoc.co.uk/new
Read source →Approaches in Entomology Q&A – Journal Highlight
Published: 26 August 2026. Approaches in Entomology is the Royal Entomological Society’s new, and first purely open access, journal, spanning methods, philosophies and ethics. It opened for submissions earlier this year and we are delighted… <
Read source →Endangered Butterfly Returns After 50 Years
In July, caterpillars of the rare and endangered large blue butterfly were reintroduced to areas managed by the Danish Nature Agency in Jydelejet, north of Klinteskoven, where the species disappeared in the 1970s. The reintroduction… <a href="
Read source →Local Specialist Natural History Bookshop Celebrates 25 years in Iver
The Royal Entomological Society is delighted to join Pemberley Books in celebrating their 25th anniversary of their shop in Iver. As a longstanding champion of entomological literature, Pemberley Books has played an invaluable role in… <a href
Read source →RES leads landmark research project, funded by Natural England and The Crown Estate
PRESS RELEASE 18 August 2026. How are extreme weather events and climate warming affecting rare grassland species? The Royal Entomological Society leads landmark research project, funded by Natural England and The Crown Estate, to understand the…
Read source →RES Welcomes New Bronze Level Organisational Member: University of Reading
We are delighted to welcome the University of Reading as a new Bronze Organisational Member of the Royal Entomological Society (RES), strengthening a long-standing relationship between two organisations with a shared commitment to advancing insect…</p
Read source →Meet the Editor: Adam Vanbergen
Adam Vanbergen became an Editor-in-Chief of Agricultural and Forest Entomology in 2020. He works at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment and is one of our experts on pollinators. Read on… <a href="https://www
Read source →From Insects to Oceans: RES Join Lancaster Zoo for a Beach Clean
Protecting insect biodiversity doesn’t stop at the edge of a woodland or meadow – it extends all the way to our coastlines. This July, Dr Jess Stokes FRES, Project Officer of the Royal Entomological Society… <a href="https://www.ro
Read source →Lloyd of the Flies Lands at Robinswood Hill For Summer Adventure
PRESS RELEASE Published: 24 July 2026 MP Alex McIntyre visits Robinswood Hill Country Park to launch new interactive Aardman trail. Visitors to Robinswood Hill Country Park can now shrink down to bug size and explore… <a href="https://www.roye
Read source →Neurodiversity in Entomology: Finding Ourselves Among the Creepy-Crawlies
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Read source →How an IPM Lecture Started One Entomologist’s Career in Extension
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Read source →When Bugs Aren’t the Problem: Understanding Delusional Infestation
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Read source →Honey Bee Veterinary Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities for a Small But Growing Specialty
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Read source →Meet Thrips parvispinus: The Tiny Thrips Becoming a Big Problem
<img alt="Two close-up images of small insects, identified as Thrips parvispinus, with elongated bodies, segmented legs, and antennae, shown on a green plant surface; left insect is darker, right insect is paler. Both have red eyes. Scale bars read 0.1 mm." cl
Read source →The Insects Buried With Us: Toward Best Practices in Funerary Archaeoentomology
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Read source →From Formatting to Organization: Practical CV Tips That Make a Difference
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Read source →Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides
Honeybee queens exposed to pesticides can shift some of the contamination into their eggs, revealing a previously unknown survival strategy. The process may protect the queen while putting developing offspring, and potentially the entire colony, at risk.
Read source →Volunteer-led project smashes events target
Volunteer-led project smashes events target appeared first on Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
Read source →MP’s decade-long search for rare Ruderal bumblebee finally ends
MP’s decade-long search for rare Ruderal bumblebee finally ends appeared first on Bumbl
Read source →Orkney reserves receive Great Yellow bumblebee champion site awards during MSP visit
Orkney reserves receive Great Yellow bumblebee champion site awards during MSP visit appeared first on <a href="h
Read source →Heatwaves and bumblebees: lessons from BeeWalk
Heatwaves and bumblebees: lessons from BeeWalk appeared first on Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
Read source →Bees sir, can I have some more: does farmland provide enough food for bumblebees?
Bees sir, can I have some more: does farmland provide enough food for bumblebees? appeared first on <a href="https://ww
Read source →Major project begins to help Carmarthenshire’s bumblebees to thrive
Major project begins to help Carmarthenshire’s bumblebees to thrive appeared first on <a href="https://www.bumblebeeconservation.or
Read source →Major project launched to help Somerset’s rarest bumblebees
Major project launched to help Somerset’s rarest bumblebees appeared first on Bumbleb
Read source →Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every year
A new study published in Frontiers in Public Health shows that over 400 million of the world’s farmers and farmworkers suffer from acute pesticide poisoning annually. This total excludes the 84 million children working in global agriculture who are even mor
Read source →Pesticides are tested on honey bees, but where does that leave our other pollinators?
by Dr Alicja Witwicka For a while now researchers have been warning governments, farmers and the public about the harm that pesticides cause to pollinating insects. And many have listened, some of the most toxic insecticides, called neonicotinoids, have bee
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