Home from a beautiful week in Asturias for the forma iberica Dead Wood Course, always something new to learn! 🥵 Stimulating time talking about fungi, saproxylic insects and everything in between.

Always love a good bee mimic, especially when extra fluffy.

What a Monday! 🐝 Excited to share two new papers on pollinators: 1️⃣ Exploring the wild bees of the Canary Islands in @Zootaxa. 🔗 doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5802.2.3 2️⃣ High bee nutritional standards but low flexibility in modern agro-ecosystems in Ecological Entomology 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/een.70096

Do you want to do science that helps to improve forest restoration or management practice? If you answered yes, then you'd be a good fit for our group. We're looking for applicants for the Marie Curie fellowship call, so get in touch with me if you're interested. Call info: tinyurl.com/mptnnh6c

Two color forms of Anthophora plumipes, right in the garden 🥰

It's currently flowering season for Armeria euscadiensis, an endemic plant found only along the Basque coast (euskal itsas krabelina in #Euskara). A few pollinators were enjoying the view as well. 🌿

Most surprising find @ bee aggregation '26 were lots of thick-headed #flies emerging! They're parasitoids of adult bees, grabbing them mid-air to inject eggs into the abdomen. Eww but cool! (I guess not if you're a bee 😂) Here's one on a flower: flic.kr/p/2ocMhfV #Conopidae: #Zodion NC, USA

Entering my fourth season of #Basque bees 🐝💛.

The cutest find in the field this week #firesalamander

Today's Easter egg is... another #fasciation find 🌿

How many 🍄🍄🍄 species in Bermuda? At least 185 (and counting...).

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

So, what could these be? 😅 This Anthophora was covered in them.. (collected in Donostia).

Fascinating fasciation season is here 🌼🙏 The same patch by my house never fails with an assorted mix of oddities each spring.

IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

The IUCN's BumbleBee Specialist Group's report on its activities in moving towards Red List assessing bumblebees worldwide and helping their conservation during 2025 is now out! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our research group, SARE Lab, is now on BlueSky… feel free to give a follow! 🌿🐝🪰🧬👉🏼 @sarelab.bsky.social

Hoy publicamos la primera cita para España del sírfido Anasimyia contracta, a partir de un ejemplar conservado en la Colección Entomológica @universidadoviedo.bsky.social. Con Pablo Aguado @entomoprofessor.bsky.social y @erebiologa.bsky.social www.entomologica.es/publicacione...

First solitary bee of the year... 🐝 👀

Si te equivocas de entrada puede que visites la casa de una Donacosa merlini (Lycosidae). Un hembra de Eucera rufa (Apidae) es arrastrada bajo la atenta mirada de 3 machos que no entienden nada y que a pasar de sus esfuerzos no pudieron salvarla. 🐝💔🕷️ Laguna del Ojillo (RBD) @ebdonana.bsky.social

New Basque children’s book, where the star is a Megachile 😍🌿🐝 | Malen Intsektuen Munduan, a story about pollination and the different pollinators here in the Basque Country 🌸

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining "the Bee’s Knees" podcast, where we talked about our latest research on honeybees and what it means for wild pollinators. 🎙️🐝 You can listen to the episode here: thebeesknees.website/wild-pollina...

Favorite benches in my neighborhood (really holding back on a #lichen pun).

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....

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Best signs in my neighborhood…🪲🐸

Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2

Never a bad day in the forest

For this #FlyFriday, I share a close up on the beautiful wings from some of our tiny pollinators collected in #Gorbeia Natural Park. 🪰

Happy #WorldMushroomDay 🫶🏼🍄✨

"Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species..." Is anyone familiar with what species? I can't find a full summary list online. Thanks in advance 🐝🌿

Good morning | Egun on 🌿

#Hedera attracts an array of pollinators this time of year, many of which we often overlook like the potter wasp Delta unguiculatum. [📍Tolosa, Gipuzkoa]

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

The bees have been busy here this summer 💪

Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics. Abstract submission closes Oct 25th! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc systass.org/young-system...

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 🐝🪰🌼