Conference Insects and climate change in the Alpes du Sud with the Jardin du Lautaret

These emblematic insects of the forests of the Southern Alps are both confronted with accelerated climate change, but their response to this change is totally different. This reveals the complexity of the mechanisms at play. We will see that winter warming favors the pine processionary by allowing it to survive in areas that were previously impossible for it to colonize. Originally a Mediterranean species, the processionary is now found at altitudes above 1500 meters in the mountains, with...