Best of 2025 count down: #12 Female Two-spotted longhorn bee (Melissodes bimaculatus) explored a vacant lot by the sea between 2 homes in Cape Coral, overcast & rainy, startled a burrowing owl, & found a familiar subject. #EastCoastKin #macroPhotography #macro #photography #pollinators #bees #art

Wang et al. explore the complex interplay between pollinators and #flower features like scent and color, and the impact of this interaction on #plant reproductive success and #herbivory. doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #PlantScience #EcoEvo #evolution #BugSky

Published!📖 Indirect plant-plant interactions via shared pollinators are widespread and shaped by both neutral and niche processes—boosting network stability and supporting biodiversity in alpine ecosystems🌲 🐝 🏔️ Read here:https://buff.ly/KUWAwX7

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌷🌿🌻🐝 Flowers in winter important on cool but sunny days. Rosemary flowers (Salvia rosmarinus) with nectar & pollen for buff-tailed bumblebee queen Bombus terrestris. Egg-laying & caring for larvae. Important commercial pollinators in glass house crops. #BUC2026 #plants #loveplants #bees

80% of our food crops and wild flowering plants depend on pollination. Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline. Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030. More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ

My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉 With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches? Find out here👇 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Cocoa depends on tiny, often overlooked insects—many of which we don’t really like! See this pic of a great new study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Isabelle Merle & Fabrice Requier

Male bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens) on New England aster flower (Aster novae-angliae) 10-2-25 in Chicago #ColorADay #GreenSat #BlueSkyArtShow #small #eastcoastkin #bugsky #native #bees #pollinators #flowers #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #chicago #insects #art

Female Say's Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee (Coelioxys sayi) on camphorweed #stunDay Sunday part II #eastcoastkin #bees #pollinators #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography

🪰🌺Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources vist.ly/4ap62 #CanopyOpenness #ClimateChange #ClimaticRefugia #ConvolutionalNeuralNetwork #DeepLearning #Diptera #ForestComposition #PollinatorConservation #YOLOv5

Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis): 12mm (0.47in).This is a species of mason bee, and is known as the red mason bee due to its covering of dense gingery hair. Amazing photo taken by Laura Corkindale of a Mason bee female laying eggs and filling the cavity with food in Hampshire, UK 🐝 #redmasonbee #bee

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep. Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds. #agsky #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

Pollinators and politics in China: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/14/p... #China #Bees #Pollinators #Biodiversity

“No mosquitoes, no chocolate.” Cacao is pollinated by mosquitoes, not bees. More insights from TEDxMitte 2025 — keep an eye on our socials! #TEDxMitte #Biodiversity #Pollination

Masked bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeus spp.) spend a lot of time collecting pollen for their young, like this one on a sulphur cinquefoil (Rosaceae: Potentilla recta). They lack the transport hairs most bees have and carry it in a secondary "honey stomach." Clayton Michigan, 27 Jun 2014.

The bird and the bee 💛 #pollinators #bees #hummingbird #birds #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶

Hoverflies (family Syrphidae): As their common name suggests, these important Pollinators are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers. They are the second most important pollinator after Bees. Lovely photo taken by Richard Burkmar in Middlesex, UK. #hoverfly #hoverflies #wildlife #pollinators

We’re very happy to have hosted this year’s annual meeting in Barcelona. It’s been an intense but truly rewarding week — and we’re already looking forward to next year’s gathering! ✨ @uni-freiburg.de

We also visited the experimental fields at IRTA Mas Badia, where we were able to see the #LivingLabs and the experiments currently being carried out. On our way to #BaixEmpordà, we visited Fructícola Empordà orchards and Mooma’s facilities 🍎🍷

Over two days, we exchanged updates on the project’s progress and worked collaboratively across the different work packages, covering #research, cooperation with #farmers, #communication, and much more 😍🍏

No pollinators, no food! 🐝⚠️ At CREAF, we work to restore pollinator habitats across #Europe Here’s one of our contributions 👇

Next week in the EU-Parliament (11.11.2025, 13:30-15), we will discuss the future of sustainable farming in Europe and the alignment or non-alignment of the CAP with sustainability criteria, based on @agtransect.bsky.social and #CAP4GI.

‼️🚨My first PhD paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations. 📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041... @annatraveset.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social

First documented case of plant smelling like an ant to attract pollinators ->Mongabay | #pollinator | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Lift-off! Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and coneflower. 🧪🌿🌎 #garden #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insects #bees

‘Good Morning! Oh..and in case I don’t see ya…Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Good Night…’ #morning #bees #nature #worldbeesanctuary

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #InsectBookClub @jeffollerton.bsky.social

Adaptive rewiring and temperature tolerance shape the architecture of plant-pollinator networks globally https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.683289v1

A little Ivy bee in West Cambridge last week. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography

The Cambridge crew living their best lives and enjoying the @restpoll.bsky.social 🍎 🍏 production tour @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social

In case it might be of interest to anyone who comes across this post... you can listen to my book 'Dancing with Bees - a journey back to nature' on Audible. Preview here: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Dancing-w... #bumblebees #pollinators #trees #nature #naturewriting #wildlife

Most of us can’t do all this but all of us can make our yards more hospitable to native bees and pollinators. youtu.be/rGRqeN3PCNw?...

Many people, those that do & don't buy honey, perhaps have very little idea about where their honey comes from or the bees themselves. I certainly learnt a lot when writing my two bee books for children. This research points out that wild bees are now in danger. theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...

This week, the partnership of the #EUproject RESTPOLL 🐝 @restpoll.bsky.social came together to share knowledge and experiences during the Annual Meeting in #Barcelona.

Fruit production in Spain and some Nature Group team members inbetween millions of apples #RestPollAGM2

Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social

Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM

@uni-freiburg.de explains RestPoll members the Nagoya protocol and it's implications.

RestPoll is today learning from IRTA Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaries in Catalunya about their research about sustainable food production 🐄🍓🍇🤠

🐝Šovasar LU Bioloģijas 3. kursa studente, BSC praktikante Aleksandra Koliņa kopā ar zinātnisko asistenti Džesiku Girardi darbojās projektā #RestPoll, pētot apputeksnētāju daudzveidību Vidzemes lauku saimniecībās. 🔗Bloga raksts par praktikantes pieredzi: lnkd.in/dCbvJZ8J #EUProjects #WildPollinators

Wildbienen, Hummeln und Schmetterlingen fehlt Lebensraum. Auch das Ziel der EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie, den Anteil naturnaher Flächen in der Landwirtschaft auf 10 % zu erhöhen, reicht nicht aus. Das zeigt eine neue Studie in Science mit Beteiligung der #UniFreiburg. ufr.link/bestaeuber-lebensraum

JOB OFFER ⚠️ Research Engineer in Economics #RestPoll project 🌼 Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches  ➡️ https://www.iamm.ciheam.org/en/agendas/vacancy-announcement-recruitment-of-a-research-engineer-in-economics-3/

📄 We just enriched our library with a new resource titled Crop Diversification for Pollinator Conservation. 🌿 It looks at the mechanisms and current evidence base of how increasing the diversity of crops can benefit pollinator biodiversity. Check it out here: wildposh.eu/library #WildPoshResources

💬 Would you buy bee-friendly food? Then help us with your opinion and take part in our survey (approx. 20 min). 👉Your answers will help to make our food system more sustainable and promote the protection of pollinators. Available in 7 different languages! agreconlab.limesurvey.net/328536?lang=en

🐝🦋🪰 Bees, butterflies and hoverflies in agricultural areas? 🙌 Yes, please. In the @restpoll.bsky.social project we partner with farmers and farm advisors to bring #pollinators back to farmed areas. Buzzing to know more? Discover it at www.creaf.cat/en/research/...

Give the Ribwort Plantain some urban space to feed pollinators #wordbeeday

🐛🦋🎶Hey there @restpoll.bsky.social , how are you? We're here until 4 pm today, together with the Plant-Insect Interactions Team, at TUM Campus Weihenstephan in Freising. We'd love to see all of you! #WorldBeeDay for #pollinators

It's World Bee Day! 🐝 We are thrilled to be part of #RestPoll, a Project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines & position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration🌻 https://restpoll.eu #WorldBeeDay #Pollinators #Biodiversity #Ecology @restpoll.bsky.social

Happy #WorldBeeDay with this photo of the beautiful Melecta luctuosa, which I have seen twice in the last week. 😍 Einen schönen #Weltbienentag mit einem Foto einer wunderschönen Pracht-Trauerbiene Melecta luctuosa, die ich in der letzten Woche gleich zweimal gefunden habe. 😍

On May 20th, we celebrate the #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 💻Find out more about it here: www.un.org/en/observanc...