Pierre-Olivier Maquart and Philippe Le Gall just came back from a mission in Cameroun. They organized a training course about entomology à l’Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts à Mbalmayo.

The BUTTERFLY project, in which Fabrice Requier’group is implicated, is a transdisciplinary project which gathers 24 teams of 13 countries and 3 territoires d’outre-mer (NO, DE, FR, EL, DK, IE, FI, NL, PL, IT, ES, BE, UK, Groenland, Curaçao, Martinique). This project aims at understanding the threats leading to the decline of pollinisators (insects, and

Are you curious about discovering innovative solutions for sustainable food? Wondering why people eat insects? Can all insects be eaten? Who consumes them, and what do they taste like? Join us for an exciting conference on edible insects, a topic that challenges common perceptions and offers a promising alternative to the global ecological and food

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,