Great work by my colleague Richard Odemer & @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social colleagues: a non-destructive monitoring system for honey bee colonies using an in-hive flatbed scanner. They detected
Varroa destructor mites beneath larvae in drone brood cells and early signs of chalkbrood disease. #JKI

Interesting new study by Boakye and colleagues showing that in places, where cocoa cultivation reduces natural forest area at a landscape scale in Ghana, abundance of many insect orders (except flies) decreases. @DaraStanley
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Read about this publication in a tweet by @gcabanac.cpesr.fr (on another platform...) where authors had been forced by the reviewers to include citations of papers irrelevant to their work in their publication.
In an Elsevier journal! Unbelievable and really worrying! pubpeer.com/publications...