On the last day of fieldwork, #Gorbeia presented me the weirdest fly. I don’t know much about it except that it’s in the family Acroceridae. #FlyFriday 🪰

Carpets of #Colchicum montanum flowering in #Gorbeia 🌸

Sunset view of Aiako Harria from the home office 🌝

Description of a new bee species from the Iberian Peninsula. With this addition, the number of Hoplitis species recorded in the Iberian fauna reaches 50. #wildbees #Hoplitis sea-entomologia.org

Some company while sampling… [Macroglossum stellatarum pollinating Cirsium eriophorum 🌸] #nationalmothweek #gorbeaNP

Polyommatus sp. resting on one of my favorite flowers, Eryngium bourgatii [photo from last August]. 🦋

It's currently pollinator paradise at one of my favorite survey sites in #Gorbeia. 🐝🌞🌿 [Osmia emarginata(?) on Lotus corniculatus, Bombus pascuorum on Teucrium pyrenaicum]

🐝 Hoy es #DíaMundialDeLasAbejas 🐝 ¿Sabías que la abeja de la miel es solo una entre +22.000 especies? La mayoría son solitarias y no producen miel, pero son clave para los ecosistemas y la producción de alimentos Conocerlas es el primer paso para protegerlas. 👇

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

Putting the longhorn in longhorn beetle 🪲 [Morimus asper, 📍Artikutza]

Beautiful viper (Vipera seoanei) out and about at today’s field site. #Gorbeia

‼️🎬 Check out my video for the contest #YoinvestigoYosoyCSIC, where I explain my thesis and our research on pollinators! Don't forget to like it and share, each time you do it you make a wild be happier 🐝🌸 @ebdonana.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ZT...

Season 3, Day 1 ✅ Another round of plant-pollinator fieldwork underway in #Gorbeia 🐝🪰🌼

🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics Pic by David Stowe

Fieldwork preparation last week in Gorbeia. Sunnier days ahead… (hopefully 😅).

Amigos y amigas abejologas, estos cursos van a ser top y creo que pueden estar financiados por la EU, así que si os interesa la taxonomía, hacer una expresión de interés: pollinatoracademy.eu/training/eu-...

We have three(!) field technician positions open to join us this season to collect and process plant-pollinator data in Gorbeia Natural Park. 🐝 🌿 Application closes soon... info.bc3research.org/es/2025/02/1...

Not one but three Andrena cineraria nesting aggregations spotted today. They love these south facing walls. (Also, it was ~20C today 😵‍💫)

Colletes cunicularius are now emerging at the UPV/EHU arboretum. It’s nice to have such a massive aggregation close to the office.. 😅

Fun few days over in León 🌸 #EcoFlor2025

A very early, early bumblebee spotted today in Donostia [B. pratorum]

New Years Day hike. Pyrenees in the distance!

Interesting finds from our field work in Gorbea NP, stay tuned 🐝🧬👀

Happy 12th birthday to Burley, my lil companion since 2013 🧡

Three research assistant positions are now open to work in Community Ecology at the Basque Centre for Climate Change. All info here: info.bc3research.org/2024/11/27/t...

Not just species, but new genus record for the Basque Country: Anthidiellum strigatum. A small, stocky (and cute) bee collected just outside the office [Leioa, ES], foraging on Lotus sp.

And another starter pack for bee people. Who am I missing here? go.bsky.app/3sLLXsG Happy to get the list growing and spread the word.

23C today in the Basque Country. Feels more like summer this week than actual summer (but without the bees). Work view atm:

Functional traits are used in #bee ecology, but inconsistent data standards limit large-scale research. Our new paper with @MaddieOstwald & @Mlucia_Xylo presents a roadmap for standardizing bee trait data and a dataset of 1,600+ species globally. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Abeja de la miel, apicultura y abejas silvestres. www.abejassilvestres.es/posts/Apis Si quereis que Abejas Silvestres se abra una cuenta de divulgación sobre abejitas en bluesky, darle amor a este post!

The winner of the Individuals and Populations (Plants and Fungi) category is Early Morning Thaw by Jenn Rose. Taken on an iPhone 11 Pro in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark, it shows a Flammulina sp. mushroom beginning to thaw after a crisp November night. 🍄🌿

My MSc thesis is now published! Exploring the genomics of Bermuda’s leafcutter bee 🇧🇲🐝 doi.org/10.1111/icad...

When fieldwork is too misty for bees, you compromise.

Last sampling round underway, beginning at the iconic beauty of Itxina

Campus bees ❤️

If you are visiting the Basque Country this summer, please contribute to our iNaturalist project “Euskadiko Erleak” as we continue exploring the diversity and distribution of bees within this region 🐝 www.inaturalist.org/projects/eus...

Nice weekend looking at bumble bees in the Pyrenees 🌞 [B. mesomelas]

Bombus pascuorum visiting Helleborus viridis 🌿

¿Cómo podemos ayudar a las abejas silvestres?Te lo explicamos con 9 acciones fáciles y científicamente contrastadas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2l...

Field season underway… 🐝

#AprilFools from the collection 🪰🐝

First time in Catalonia for non-hockey reasons. Some rain and colder temps, but spotted a few early bees out n about. Dog loves a good road trip (and jamón).

Overdue trip visiting the BAMZ (🇧🇲) entomology collection. Here is Bermuda’s endemic cicada (Tibicen bermudiana). Once super common, now presumed extinct since the 90s.