Team news
Congratulations Alfredo!
September 2021: Alfredo Venturo is just starting the second year of his PhD and has the first published article in his pocket
Working visit to Germany
September 2021: analysis of CHC and future collaboration
A place for butterflies - we create new habitats around the Prokop Valley
August 2021: support of endangered butterfly species based on a combination of flexible habitat management and evaluation of detailed biological data
Cooperation with the Institute of Entomology of the Biology Centre in České Budějovice
August 2021: strength of coagulation of haemolymph and resistance to nematode parasites across different ladybird species
2021 is the year of the dragonflies
July 2021: thanks to the support of the Prague City Hall this year we launched the Prague dragonfly monitoring project
The project “Okáčům na stopě” was launched
July 2021: involving the broad public in the study of the population ecology of the critically endangered Hipparchia semele
Party tents for dragonflies
June 2021: behavioural experiments with dragonflies
Public lesson in front of the National Museum of Agriculture
June 2021: the participants learned interesting facts and news on pollinators, insect biodiversity loss in urban environments and our project Praha kvete
Blooming of our wildflower strips received a lot of attention from the media
June 2021: finally, our wildflower strips in fields around Prague-Vinoř are in full beauty!
The Praha kvete project expands even in 2021
May 2021: the educational project focuses on the differences between a short mowed lawn and a flowering area from an insect biodiversity perspective
Great publication by Tiit Teder
May 2021: Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects
Additional 30 hectares of wildflower strips sown in cooperation with the company VIN AGRO
April 2021: nectar-rich wildflower strips northeast of Prague
Publishing successes during spring
March 2021: in March, several of our articles were accepted for publication
Eze’s success in the Journal of Applied Ecology
March 2021: Ezequiel González among the final candidates for the Southwood Prize for Young Scientists for his article
Thank you Lada for all your work in our projects
January 2021: it's time to say BYE, BYE!
Interview in the Živá univerzita (Life University) journal
December 2020: detailed description of our activities at the Dívčí hrady site
November sampling as our last field work in 2020
November 2020: successful autumn light trapping
We did not let our conference fall – the Kostelecké inspirování 2020 (Kostelec inspiration 2020) conference was online
November 2020: thanks to the contribution of our team members
Conference Naše příroda 2020 (Our Nature 2020)
November 2020: Michal Knapp and Tomáš Kadlec presented our research and conservation activities at the Dívčí hrady
Kim Jensen as a new reinforcement for our team
November 2020: Kim will be to join in our research on ladybird physiology and insect life span
Ladybirds are ready for overwintering
October 2020: next year of long term experiment
Healthy light in the TV show Nedej se! (Don't Give Up!)
October 2020: Tom in Czech TV show called Nedej se!
Dragonflies deserve systematic monitoring
October 2020: publication in the top-ranked scientific journal Bioscience
Alfredo Venturo became a new member of the Insect Ecology Group
October 2020: Welcome, Alfredo!
31 hectares of flower strips were sown in collaboration with farmers from VIN AGRO s.r.o. company
September 2020: Martin as helper in a tractor
In the footsteps of rare butterflies
September 2020: it seems that this species is currently even rarer than we thought
The importance of forest patches for the functioning of agricultural landscapes
September 2020: article in the Journal of Applied Ecology
Patience brings flowers: the first phase of the Praha kvete (Prague is blooming) project
August 2020: first phase is done
Monitoring carabid beetles in arable fields from the Prague City Hall
June 2020: the impact of changes in farming management and landscape structure on carabids
Tomáš Dvořák joins our team
May 2020: Tomáš Dvořák is the new reinforcement of the Insect Ecology Group (with a part-time position).
Support to Prague pollinators
May 2020: pollinators and citizen science
Dívčí hrady … everything goes according to the plan
May 2020: reintroduced blue butterflies
New project investigating the impacts of flower strips on invertebrate assemblages and ecosystem services provision was launched
May 2020: flower strips in agricultural landscapes
Bumblebees like the forest
April 2020: agricultural landscape
Voltinism in insects vs. climate change
April 2020: new interesting study
Pitfalls of pitfall trapping
April 2020: ecological methods
Arthropod assemblages inhabiting Argentinian green roofs
April 2020: urban ecology
The third year of the freshwater exclusion experiment was launched
April 2020: pond works were launched
Nectar-rich meadow area in front of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences
March 2020: support for pollinators
Fruitful March: several interesting publications were published
March 2020: March - behind the stove we climb (and publish)
New project investigating the influence of black locust cover on moth communities
March 2020: first fieldwork of the year 2020 under supervision of Tomáš Kadlec was lunched
Successful trip to the Zoological Days 2020 conference
February 2020: Zoological days - we can't miss this event :-)
New projects in Prague
January 2020
Superb conference Kostelecke inspirovani 2019
November 2019
Cages before winter
October 2019
New logo of Insect Ecology Group
October 2019
Insect hotel - Summer school for children
August 2019
Estonian trip
June 2019
Behavioral experiment in Ostrava
May 2019
The Czech Republic is a unique place :-)
April 2019
Trip to the Neobiota conference in Dublin
September 2018
New harvestmen species for Bohemia discovered
August 2018
The Dívčí hrady project is growing
May 2018
The first article by Michal Řeřicha
May 2018
