I was talking to some bikers in a pub (as you do) and they suggested that #ecology should recruit bikers to collect data more often. In the same manner as there was the #Splatometer experiment recently in Kent looking at insects on car number plates, they think that someone should develop a way to quantify insects on motorcycle visors & do a study. (One commented that the insect visor splats increased enormously once he crossed into Scotland!) #InsectDeclines #Entomology #InsectMonitoring

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I'm an ecologist with an #altac day job planning monitoring for a state agency. #oregon
#reforestation #habitat #restoration #lidar #forestinventory #remotesensing

Past work and side interests in #butterfly #conservation #citsci #insectdeclines #biocontrol #insects #killyourlawn

I boost #macro but my photos go to #inaturalist

These kind of studies never get as much attention as the flawed 'global linear decline' narrative. But they are a good reminder that there's a lot of ecological complexity involved in measuring insect trends & results of single studies don't apply globally #InsectConservation #InsectApocalypse #InsectDeclines https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-022-00445-9