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Kyle Miller
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Ecologist dabbling in molecular methods.
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📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣

Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum

Deadline: 5/10/25

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Student Representative vacancy 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
The Royal Entomological Society is recruiting one new volunteer to be a Student Representative. The 1-2 year role includes helping to organise the annual Student Forum with RES staff, and providing up...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The chimps might not be able to produce Shakespeare but it must still be better than this. 2020s the decade of confident ignorance.

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I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe | Adrian Chiles
These noisy, filthy, feral creatures make my life a misery. Is there really no way to get rid of them, asks Adrian Chiles
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April 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I'm giving a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social seminar series on best practice interventions for fieldwork focusing on toileting outdoors, menstruation and safeguarding - free tickets can be found here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... We'll be recording the talk too!
Best practice and interventions for accessible fieldwork - RGS
This session will cover best practice and positive interventions for fieldwork, with a focus on menstruation and menstrual health.
www.rgs.org
February 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tragedy has struck. The year of my birth has started to appear on “retro style” clothing. It’s over.
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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NEW PAPER: Development of a LAMP protocol to identify the parasitoid Carcelia iliaca from oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processioneae) larval tissue to understand and enhance biocontrol management plans dx.doi.org/10.1111/afe....
Development of a LAMP protocol to identify the parasitoid Carcelia iliaca from oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processioneae) larval tissue to understand and enhance biocontrol management plans
Oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea) (OPM) Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) is a serious forestry pest and risk to public health in the UK. The economic and environmental cos...
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January 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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@kyleamiller.bsky.social et al. demonstrate the performance of a novel assay for rapidly detecting parasitoids of the oak processionary moth, a serious forest pest in the UK. Rapid assessments of biocontrol rates can inform wider management strategies for the pest.
doi.org/10.1111/afe....
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Grand old time at #BES2024 Great science and great people!
December 13, 2024 at 6:40 PM
First Bluesky post to celebrate my first-first author publication from my PhD!
PAPER ACCEPTED: Development of a LAMP protocol to identify the parasitoid Carcelia iliaca from Oak Processionary Moth (Thaumetopoea processioneae) larval tissue to understand and enhance biocontrol management plans. By Kyle Miller et al. in Agricultural and Forestry Entomology
November 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM