A paper on the ecological factors driving the rise and the reduction in butterfly diversity at population level on islands have just been published on Diversity and Distribution! I collaborated to this wonderful project lasted 15 years and led by Dr. Leonardo Dapporto...

I gave two talks, one at ECRO on Ontogeny of nestmate recognition in social wasps, and one in Rome, talking about the mechanisms and evolutionary explanations for the dramatic occurrence of inter-nest drifting in a tropical social wasp.

See below the meetings websites!

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The implementation of proper and evidence-based conservation measures requires a reliable assessment of presence and/or abundance of targeted species. However this often turns out to be f particular difficulty for rare and elusive species, such as saproxylic beetles. I...

The EU funded ALIEM project (Action pour Limiter les risques de diffusion des espèces Introduites Envahissantes en Méditerranée), recently funded by the INTEREG-MARITIME PROGRAM, has been presented in Corte, Corsica. The Italian and French partners gathered in a two-da...

I recently gave two talks about the researches we are performing in Florence on the behavioural ecology of Vespa velutina, the Yellow-legged hornet (more info here).

At Lexem 2016, International Conference “FACING THE INVASION OF ALIEN ARTHROPODS SPECIES: ecology, model...