Wild honeybee colonies, which scientists believed to be extinct in Europe, have just been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. A group of researchers, Honey Bee Watch, resumed the study of these colonies and demonstrated their continued existence in various European Union countries. They nest in tree cavities, chimneys and
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Pierre-Olivier Maquart (Ecology Department) has returned from Indonesia for a mission as part of the PHC Nusantara program at Campus France. He went there to study the recycling of organic waste by the Black Soldier Fly, a fly used to convert this waste into a source of protein (through the larvae that can be fed
The “Man & Biodiversity” field school took place from Wednesday, May 7 to Wednesday, May 14, 2025, on the campus of the National School of Water and Forests (ENEF) in Mbalmayo, Cameroon. Under the direction of Philippe le Gall (IRD-EGCE) and Pierre-Olivier Maquart (IRD-EGCE). This mission offered eight students from ENEF and two students from
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On Thursday, May 22, Dr. Pierre-Olivier Maquart appeared before the French Veterinary Academy as part of a public session devoted to entomophagy. Entitled “The edible insect sector, 10 years after the FAO’s “call”, where are we in France?”, this session, coordinated by Dr. Catherine Magras (DMV, Honorary Professor at Oniris – UMR INRAe 1014 Secalim),
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Position open at EGCE in bio-informatique. More: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9191-ARNLER-005/Default.aspx
Sorry in french: L’UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie (EGCE), recherche un(e) Assistant(e) Ingénieur(e) en Expérimentation et Instrumentation Biologiques pour optimiser l’efficacité d’un agent de lutte biologique dans le cadre du projet Ecophyto Maturation BIOCOSMA (https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-23-ECOM-0003).
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Paul-André Calatayud is participating in the Afrogrow project which aim is to foster the adoption of sustainable practices of agroforestry systems to help local communities in Africa.
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
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