Dr Manu Saunders FRES

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Ecologist. Mum. Writer. Senior Lecturer Uni New England (Australia). Editor in Chief: Insect Conservation and Diversity. Anaiwan Country. My words. She/her. https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com https://saundersecologylab.com/

An insect pollinator community feasts on white eucalypt blossoms.
A glamorous longicorn beetle sits on a white buddleia flower head, drinking nectar. The beetle is elongated and black, with tan pinstripes, swollen segments on the very long legs, and ridiculously long red antenna.
Huge communal spider web, with five large orb weavers sharing the space, visible against the blue sky background
Clear blue sky, underlined by a rugged cliff face covered in trees. Flowering wattles glow gold among the green and brown
Snow covered street curving away from the camera. Everything is white.
A researcher in hi-vis yellow vest and hat is standing in a patch of flowering plants next to a major road. She has a notebook in hand and is recording observations from the plants she is looking at.
Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').
Three bees lying in a Petri dish on a microscope deck
A collection of brown shiny Christmas beetles lying in leaf litter, surrounded by dead eucalyptus leaves of mixed sizes and colours and a few tufts of green grass
Large beige coloured hawkmoth lying in short grass. To the left, a thumb and forefinger is gently pulling the topwing open to make the underwing visible, which has dark brown shading.
Large orange and black wasp pushing a paralysed caterpillar into her freshly built mud nest. The nest sits on a cement stair with a brick wall behind it.
A large orange cicada with black markings rests on the ground among grass and clover leaves
A small cicada sitting in the palm of a person's hand, facing away from the camera. It's body is mostly black with a fiery orange abdomen.
Large lime green cicada resting on an open hand, with palm facing up. The cicada reaches almost the full width of the hand.
Sphecid wasp pushing a prey caterpillar into her newly constructed mud nest. She will lay her eggs inside with the food before sealing the nest
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Journal issue cover for the Special Issue featuring a large insect hotel wall in front of a high-intensity urban apartment block.
Wild skink checking out a silver snail sculpture on a mossy rock in the rainforest
A group of blowflies feasting on the surface of a red stinkhorn fungus emerging from a lawn
Black and yellow Asian paper wasp feeding on a white flower
Native moth on Bursaria
National Parks interpretive sign explaining ecology of the Dangars Gorge bulloaks
Two comparison images showing an orchard with thick flowering ground cover and a different orchard with bare ground between trees
Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly in a flowering prairie strip adjacent to cropfields
Male Australian lithurgine bee, with pollen on his back, being chased out of a pumpkin flower by a tiny ant
A bird dropping spider huddled on a leaf looking exactly like a little blob of bird poop