In the gardens of the Trianon palace in Versailles: two days to present amphibians and bees to a students audience.

P. le Gall’s (DEEIT) name appears in a film on edible insects around the world and in particular in Cameroun. The project is about Rhynchophorus phoenicis, or african palm weevil.

IDEEV PhD students invite four scientists to deliver a talk in the domain of genetics, evolution and ecology. It will take place in the I2BC auditorium, Building 21, CNRS, Campus de Gif-sur-Yvette. Please note these seminars from 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm: – Wednesday June 26: Laurent Keller (Université de Lausanne, Suisse) – Friday August

Jean-Christophe Sandoz’s team (Evolbee) work was published in Current Biology. A new social learning was demonstrated in honey bees. A mere social contact without food exchange allows worker bees to describe other worker bees the source of food. This article was distinguished for a dispatch in Current Biology and a breve de l’INEE. To read

Gérard Arnold (Evolbee) wrote an article in the newspaper le Monde 02/06/2019 edition to stress the significance of the new rules for the evaluation of the toxicity of pesticides for bees.

P. Le Gall, L. Garnery et P.-A. Calatayud wrote an article about the insect decline in the United Nations journal, UN-Environment. The little things that run the world are disappearing and very few seem to care. To read the article, please click here.

P. Le Gall (DEEIT) invites you to learn about eatable insects Sunday the 20th of January at “La maison des insectes” run by OPIE.

Bruno Le Ru (DEEIT) and colleagues published a work on Neogene grasslands. They tested the hypothesis that Neogene grasslands acted as a major adaptive zone for herbivore lineages. They used Sesamiina moths. The work is accepted in Nature Communications.