Philippe Le Gall and Pierre-Olivier Maquart are back from a land school in Cameroon. It was held from 13th to 22th of May. Teachers from IRD, CNRS and Universities of Cameroon and France plus GNO were present. It allowed to show students from the universities of Diala and Youndé what is insect biodiversity. It was […]

Laure Kaiser-Arnauld et Taia Fortuna published with a colleague from Arvalis an article published in Perspectives Agricoles. It is about the utilization of Cotesia to kill Sesamia. Research is still ungoing.

Julie Carcaud and Jean-Christophe Sandoz (Behaviour Department) organize the colloquium of the Neurobiology of the Invertebrates Club in IDEEV in Gif-sur-Yvette the 30 and 31 of May 2024. See further.

Héloïse Bastide (Pôle écologie) and collaborators published an article in Current Biology dealing with the genomic convergence between Braula and its host, the bee. This article was the besis for an article on the web site of CNRS EE: https://www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/aux-origines-de-la-socialite-la-piste-inattendue-de-braula-coeca-une-drosophile-parasite. Bastide, H., Legout, H., Dogbo, N., Ogereau, D., Prediger, C., Carcaud, J., Filée, J., Garnery,

The new Plateau Technique Instrumentation en Écologie de l’IDEEV organizes its 1rst day of presentation thursday the 7th of March 2024 in room MC1-001 Rosalind Franklin (IDEEV). Inscription is free but compulsory  (dead line the 16 of February) : https://framadate.org/PDNuz48oubGnns6M Contacts : Daniel Berveiller (ESE), Jean-Bernard Emond et Laurent Legendre (EGCE)

J.-L. Da Lage and collaborators published an article in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology describing the presence of palm tree DNA in the digestive content of a Rhodnius supposedly strictly hematophagous. An amylase, enzyme associated with plant degradation, was also identified in the bug. The hypothesis of a nutritional symbiosis more complex is proposed. The