April 2025: we launched a long-term study using our own equipment

April 2025: Tiit Teder publishes a new study

March 2025: our co-authorship in a new study

February 2025: mowing, raking, and shrub pruning

January 2025: available online (in Czech language)

December 2024: Initial results from biodiversity monitoring and management efforts at FVE Komorovice

November 2024: Workshops, lectures, and participation in insect monitoring

November 2024: Biodiversity as a public good

October 2024: last data collection in perennial experimental wildflower strips

October 2024: Experimental plots on a green roof – enhancing biodiversity in central Prague

October 2024: project introduction

September 2024: project introduction

September 2024: project introduction

September 2024: our active participation (6 contributions)

August 2024: Successful completion of the first year of field data collection

July 2024: Evaluating a manipulative experiment with dragonfly larvae

June 2024: Workshop presenting potential improvements of flower strips and the EIPC concept

May 2024: Targeted support for endangered butterfly species based on a combination of flexible habitat management and detailed biological data is almost complete

April 2024: Publication in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment reveals important results from field experiments with arthropods

March 2024: Mowing and removing sprouts

February 2024: Successful Zoological days in Ostrava...

January 2023: Eze and Michal K. publish study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

December 2023: Our conceptual study was published in Biological Conservation

November 2023: Publication of our study on mating of ladybird males with dead females

October 2023: Our new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology

September 2023: We were seen and heard not only during the scientific program

August 2023: Heatwaves have irreversible impacts on the ecophysiology of ladybirds

July 2023: Ecophysiological experiment with the Dinocampus coccinellae, a parasitoid wasp of the ladybird Harmonia axyridis

June 2023: Start of the global predation experiment with caterpillars

May 2023: Vegetation preparation in spring

April 2023: Meta-analysis of sex differences in insects published in the prestigious journal Ecology Letters

March 2023: management in the Prokop valley are carried out even during the dormant season

February 2023: six contributions at the traditional conference were from our team

January 2023: a new book about butterfly distributions of Prague.

January 2023: sorting samples and writing grant reports

December 2022: team leader is associate professor

December 2022: Celebration of 150 years of the Insect Ecology Team

December 2022: Tiit published his meta-analysis in Evolution Letters

November 2022: the entire season is over

November 2022: four members of our team presented their research at a traditional FES conference

October 2022: management activities to support diurnal butterflies and other invertebrates

October 2022: Our multi-taxonomic study published in Biological Conservation

October 2022: Data pertaining to the impact of differentially managed flower strips on arthropod communities

September 2022: European Congress of Conservation Biology

July 2022: International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki

July 2022: "tents" for aquatic invertebrates in Jevany

June 2022: Dr. David Awde and Shahriar Abul Fazal, M.Sc.

May 2022: Michal Ř. has a PhD title

May 2022: four team members participated in a world experiment

April 2022: work in the spring can also be so sweaty

April 2022: long-lived nectareous flower strips for effective biodiversity support in agricultural landscapes

April 2022: realization, oral presentations, and children programmes

March 2022: ladybirds in the most traditional journal of the world

March 2022: Tomáš Kadlec participates in the entomological monitoring PR V Bahnách

February 2022: Among the target species, the most common species are Hipparchia semele and Polyommatus thersites

February 2022: Field defects artificial and natural…

February 2022: Tom Dvořák has first publication with our affiliation

December 2021: This year we got the board games

November 2021: Ezequiel pushed one of his articles to the prestigious Journal of Applied Ecology

October 2021: A combination of mechanical and manual work is needed for quality care of the site

September 2021: Alfredo Venturo is just starting the second year of his PhD and has the first published article in his pocket

September 2021: analysis of CHC and future collaboration 

August 2021: support of endangered butterfly species based on a combination of flexible habitat management and evaluation of detailed biological data

August 2021: strength of coagulation of haemolymph and resistance to nematode parasites across different ladybird species

July 2021: thanks to the support of the Prague City Hall this year we launched the Prague dragonfly monitoring project

July 2021: involving the broad public in the study of the population ecology of the critically endangered Hipparchia semele 

June 2021: behavioural experiments with dragonflies 

June 2021: the participants learned interesting facts and news on pollinators, insect biodiversity loss in urban environments and our project Praha kvete

June 2021: finally, our wildflower strips in fields around Prague-Vinoř are in full beauty! 

May 2021: the educational project focuses on the differences between a short mowed lawn and a flowering area from an insect biodiversity perspective  

May 2021: Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects

April 2021: nectar-rich wildflower strips northeast of Prague

March 2021: in March, several of our articles were accepted for publication

March 2021: Ezequiel González among the final candidates for the Southwood Prize for Young Scientists for his article

January 2021: it's time to say BYE, BYE! 

December 2020: detailed description of our activities at the Dívčí hrady site 

November 2020: successful autumn light trapping

November 2020: thanks to the contribution of our team members

November 2020: Michal Knapp and Tomáš Kadlec presented our research and conservation activities at the Dívčí hrady

November 2020: Kim will be to join in our research on ladybird physiology and insect life span

October 2020: next year of long term experiment

October 2020: Tom in Czech TV show called Nedej se! 

October 2020:  publication in the top-ranked scientific journal Bioscience

October 2020: Welcome, Alfredo!

September 2020: Martin as helper in a tractor 

September 2020: it seems that this species is currently even rarer than we thought

September 2020: article in the Journal of Applied Ecology

August 2020: first phase is done

June 2020: the impact of changes in farming management and landscape structure on carabids

May 2020: Tomáš Dvořák is the new reinforcement of the Insect Ecology Group (with a part-time position). 

May 2020: pollinators and citizen science

May 2020: reintroduced blue butterflies

May 2020: flower strips in agricultural landscapes

April 2020: agricultural landscape

April 2020: new interesting study

April 2020: ecological methods

April 2020: urban ecology

April 2020: pond works were launched

March 2020: support for pollinators

March 2020: March - behind the stove we climb (and publish)

March 2020: first fieldwork of the year 2020 under supervision of Tomáš Kadlec was lunched

February 2020: Zoological days - we can't miss this event :-)

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