Ready for 2026! 💪🏻🐝🧬

What a good new! 🐝🐝

He subido a observation.org una colección selectiva de referencia de insectos polinizadores que he registrado y fotografiado en Cazorla y, en menor medida, otros sitios ibéricos. De momento van ~2600 obs y ~800 especies, pero no está acabada La entrada la tenéis aquí: observation.org/users/878312/

So good news before Christmas! Very proud of the first paper of Micaela’s thesis 🐝🦠🧬

🚩 Europe’s wild pollinators are disappearing fast, according to the first Europe-wide #IUCN Red List assessment in over a decade. 👉Learn more: wildposh.eu/news/iucn-wa...

This gallery of almost all EU bee species high quality photos is quite impressive: pollinatoracademy.eu/images

📢 The final of the #WildPoshWorkPackages is here! Work package 8, led by UMONS, is dedicated to project management and coordination from both a scientific and contractual perspective. 🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!

🐝 Happy Holidayzzzzzz from Wildposh! Thank you for continuing to support wild #pollinators in 2025!

📢 Maximising the impact of WildPosh requires effective communication of results, stakeholder engagement, and increased public awareness. That is where the seventh WildPosh work package comes in. WP7 is led by @pensoft.net. 🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!

🔎 Introducing WP6 of #WildPosh! WP6 evaluates the effectiveness of mitigation measures in response to pesticide pressures on wild pollinators and ensures effective knowledge transfer. Led by ANSES. 🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!

New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

‼️ Discover the WildPosh promotional toolkit! A set of materials that introduces WildPosh is now available. These resources help partners introduce the project and its objectives at conferences, talks, and workshops. Designed by @pensoft.net. 👉 Explore the toolkit: wildposh.eu/news/get-kno...

🔎 WP5 of the #WildPoshWorkPackages is creating an open-access Toolbox for pesticide risk assessment on wild pollinators. It uses data from WP1–4 to assess exposure, toxicity & from single and multiple pesticides. 🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!

Hoverflies are important non-bee pollinators. Yet, they remain overlooked in risk assessment when it comes to pesticides. WildPosh researchers are trying to fill this gap by presenting a new oral toxicity test for Eristalinus aeneus, a widespread hoverfly species. wildposh.eu/news/new-wil...

Here's a sneak preview of the latest Pollinator Project! It's going to be something special. Welcome ProPollSoil on board!

🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil. Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿 🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...

Here we are! Working together with @wildposh.eu colleagues on 🐝🦋🪰🧬👨‍🔬 @research-um.bsky.social

What a nice environment around the kick-off meeting of the new Horizon project ProPollSoil 🐝🪨

🔔 Meet the second of the #WildPoshWorkPackages! WP2 explores how single and combined pesticide exposure affects wild #pollinators. This work package is led by MLU. 🔄 Repost to help more people discover how WildPosh protects pollinators!

Canarias destaca por el alto número de especies de abejas endémicas que no existen en ningún otro lugar. Sin embargo, la nueva evaluación de las abejas europeas en la Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas revela una situación preocupante para algunas de ellas polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...

👉 Let’s take a closer look at the first of the #WildPoshWorkPackages! WP1 is led by @EMU and tries to determine the real-world agrochemical exposure of wild pollinators. 🔗 Find out more: wildposh.eu

Y hay más errados… @diariomarca.bsky.social @diaridetarragona.bsky.social

Anda que no se ha hablado veces de esta avispa en la prensa como para seguir confundiéndola con las autóctonas. Quince años con ellas y seguimos equivocándonos en cuanto tenemos que destacar la noticia. ¡Qué lástima! @infobae.bsky.social

INVESTIGACIÓN | La investigadora de la UMU Pilar de la Rúa participa en una evaluación europea que alerta del riesgo de extinción de más de un centenar de especies de abejas 🐝​

Not only coffee but also chocolate! 🐝🐝💪🏻💪🏻

Today, the website of our Horizon Europe project on #pollinator stewardship, www.butterfly-europe.eu has reached 50 clicks from google search in the past 28 days. Please link to our wonderful website to help make it even better findable + follow our BlueSky account @butterfly-project.bsky.social

Para leer con calma y actuar deprisa 🐝🐝

El polen de las flores de Crocus serotinus es abundante y muy pegajoso, acumulándose en mucha cantidad sobre el cuerpo de los visitantes florales. Aquí tenemos a una reina de Bombus terrestris en el acto mismo de frotar su frente rebozada de polen con los estigmas (parecen azafrán porque es azafrán)

Aprovecho para decir que estas ayudas son de las pocas maneras que tenemos los investigadores "jovenes" de dirigir proyectos aunque luego se nos vaya a penalizar en las evaluaciones por no haberlo hecho

🦋 #WildPosh celebrates #IPI25! Through extensive fieldwork, controlled experiments, and advanced data analysis, at WildPosh we aim to improve pesticide risk evaluation and ensure the resilience of pollination processes for a more sustainable future. 👉 Read about WildPosh's actions: wildposh.eu

The effect of #neonicotinoids on #bumblebees (Bombus spp.): a systematic review #pollinators #pesticides findings consistently showed impaired foraging, learning, memory, and reproduction, all of which compromise colony health and long-term population viability www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee...

New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝 theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...

The Spanish National Research Council is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position. Work with an international team of ecologists, agronomists, and social scientists contributing to the VALOR project. Learn more and apply here: bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

🧵1/4 ☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think. Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.

Ayer falleció Jane Goodall, científica pionera, conservacionista incansable y una gran referente para todos los que queremos un futuro mejor para el planeta. Se la echará de menos. janegoodall.org

[Para la afición abejera] La mayoría de Xylocopa negros que vemos son X. violacea, pero hay que estar atentos por si se nos cuela algún X. valga. A veces con fotos se pueden detectar. Aquí tenéis uno de hoy en Lavandula latifolia. Antena 11 piezas (macho) y longitud 1=2+3 (violacea sería 1=2+3+4)

Talking about @butterfly-project.bsky.social (in Spanish/Español) share.google/u19GpJq6IZNH...

🆕 A protocol for a semi-field experiment to assess the effects of two #pesticides on two #species of mason #bees added to the @wildposh.eu open-science project collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio..... 💡Note the document was added as is thanks to our integration with ‪@preprints.arphahub.com!

📣 BUSCAMOS personal para concursar para optar a un contrato predoctoral en la convocatoria FPU de la Universidad de Murcia para el período 2026-2029 🐝 🌸 convocum.um.es/publicacione...

Tres abejas de tres géneros distintos (Halictus, Bombus y Xylocopa) compartiendo flores de Echinops en el RJB-CSIC.

☀️ The #WildPoshSpecies campaign comes to an end with a spotlight on Osmia brevicornis, a mason bee playing an important role in pollinating early spring flowers. Discover all #WildPosh species illustrations: wildposh.eu/media-center...

Very interesting position! Have a look 🧐 on this👇🏻 and let’s enjoy working with 🐝🪰🦋

"Pesticide pollution drives biodiversity loss in Europe. It causes significant declines in insect populations, threatening the critical role they play in food production" concludes the EEA. #pollinators #pollination #pesticides #biodiversity #onehealth www.eea.europa.eu/publications...

Offcontinental locations: 1/3📍#Greenland Rock cranberry, crowberry, cloudberry, and blueberry🫐 = important food sources for wildlife🦊 and the Indigenous communities in Greenland. Building on earlier work on pollination networks in eastern Greenland, we will expand to more populated areas in the west

👉 https://t.um.es/bd-artropodos  #UMUinvestiga #EcologíaUMU #CienciaUMU

Our focus in Milano: 🌿 Boosting pollinators’ role in urban green spaces 🍎 Supporting fruit & veg production in farms & allotments With local partners, we’re expanding outreach to inspire pollinator-friendly action. Next week: non-EU sites! #LivingLabs #Milano #Horticulture #UrbanGreenSpace

🦋 This week, we're spotlighting the final Living Lab in the #ButterflyEUProject : Milano. In & around Milan, pollinators face pressures from urban sprawl, pesticides & habitat loss in both recreational & agricultural zones. Awareness is also critically low. #LivingLabs #PollinatorsMatter

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Necesaria explicación para entender la utilidad de estos refugios para polinizadores 🐝🐝🐝🐝