🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

Pleased to be part of this important letter led by @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social, calling for greater global action to protect soil biodiversity! A timely publication also because today is #WorldEarthwormDay 🌍🪱

Hey #soil #taxonomists! Have you described a species in the last 5 years? Tell us about in our Free + Open Submission event Name Drop! New species unveiled faster than you can say Linnaeus www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4 #soilbiodiversity @thegsbi.bsky.social

XXVIII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia - giornate belle, interessanti e tante nuove idee!

Too fast! Who is this long-haired #wild_bee??

One thing you don’t see when looking at soil is all the energy exchanges happening in the #soil! This is called the “soil food web.” Shown: fungi that live in the soil. Read our #GroundedInSoils blog to learn more! bit.ly/3v644Us

The Spring edition of the UKBMS eNewsletter is winging its way to all active Surveyors. Some great updates, tips and reminders and we hear about a long-running transect at Insh Marshes in the Highlands.
Best enjoyed sat some spring sunshine with a 🍵 🫖
buff.ly/vI0PgHx

PEEKABOO! Have you ever stumbled upon these teeny🪲 #Cryptocephalinae larvae? Their curious #myrmecophilous edaphic life as poo-powered💩 #case-bearers is poorly documented. We found them associated with #ants🐜 in high #pastures🐏 of the #Majella🏔️ National Park( #Abruzzo). #SOIL-BIOHUT project

毎年この時期に同じ倒木で見ているヨロイエダヒゲムシたち
マットな質感の背面装甲の重なり合いや揺れ動く触角の動き、短い脚…と良さが詰まっている生き物のひとつ。
警戒すると触角や脚をしまってぺたんとなる仕草がとても良い。

Although many invertebrates and other less-charismatic groups are key for ecosystem service provision, they and their functions are rarely included in conservation strategies. Benoit Guénard, @achughes.bsky.social et al show how funding largely goes to charismatic rather than threatened species 🌐🧪🪲

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

https://go.nature.com/3QLda3z

To people referring to soil invertebrates as 'insects', I have a visual for you. You could say this really bugs me. 🧪

Hello!😀I’m starting my adventure on #Bluesky with the soil #mites team at the Research Centre x Plant Protection🌱 &Certification in #Firenze! Follow our quirky little projects focusing on the ecological role of #microarthropods🕷️ in #soil_functionality x stop #land_degradation & #biodiversity loss⬇️

Global food systems are broken—driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and hunger for over 800M people.

Agroecology offers a way forward, blending local and scientific knowledge for food systems that serve people and nature.

🔗: bit.ly/3EpRLab

#TreesPeoplePlanet

"When you live in darkness, the first pair of long #legs helps a lot! Especially if they are equipped with sensory structures (setae or hairs) to detect vibrations, chemical signals, or movements in the #labyrinth of #soil pores." by #Linopodes sp