#Carabid #beetles only eat what (#allometrically) fits: Food plant choice of carabids is driven by body mass to seed size ratio, new study of Ali & Willenborg finds. Read more here: @gfoe https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2023.05.007

New publication: Inconsistent responses of #carabid #beetles and #spiders to land-use intensity and landscape complexity in north-western Europe. #pestcontrol #naturalenemies #soil
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110128

[#Publication] Carabid beetles have hump-shaped responses to disturbance and resource
gradients within agricultural landscapes

Results from the #SEBIOPAG network based on 60 crop fields show that :
- environmental context contributed to 75% of explained #carabid variations
- resource and disturbance gradients contributed to
25%
- more intensive #practices in spring decreased the total activity density of carabids during the spring-summer
period.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14357

As weed seed-eaters, #carabid species provide ecosystem services in #agroecology. Yet, their foraging decisions are still largely unknown. Here is our new paper on this question, based on Alice Charalabidis' PhD work. #science #ecology #insect
📄 Charalabidis et al. (2019) Diversity of foraging strategies and responses to predator interference in seed-eating carabid beetles. Basic and Applied Ecology 36:13–24 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2019.02.003