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Curro Molina
about 10 hours ago
Tres machos de Eucera rufa (Apidae) no entienden qué pasa: la hembra que buscan copular está paralizada por una Danacosa merlini (Lycosidae). Cuando intenta llevársela, reaccionan y se enfrentan a ella. Naturaleza pura: instinto, confusión y lucha. Laguna del Ojillo (EBD) 🕷️vs🐝
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Público
about 19 hours ago
Plano de acção para reverter declínio dos polinizadores foi aprovado com verba para dois anos. Zero aplaude documento, mas lamenta falta de “músculo” político e financeiro.
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Portugal já tem um plano para salvar abelhas, borboletas e moscas-das-flores
Plano de acção para reverter declínio dos polinizadores foi aprovado com verba para dois anos. Zero aplaude documento, mas lamenta falta de “músculo” político e financeiro.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/04/12/azul/noticia/portugal-ja-plano-salvar-abelhas-borboletas-moscasdasflores-2170927
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🐝🪰🦋 O Polinizadores em Ação: Plano para a Conservação e Sustentabilidade dos Polinizadores foi alvo de destaque no @publico.pt, com declarações de Helena Ceia, do ICNF, Sílvia Castro, coordenadora da polli.NET e do PolinizAÇÃO, e Paulo Lucas da ZERO. Leiam abaixo!
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Portugal já tem um plano para salvar abelhas, borboletas e moscas-das-flores
Plano de acção para reverter declínio dos polinizadores foi aprovado com verba para dois anos. Zero aplaude documento, mas lamenta falta de “músculo” político e financeiro.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/04/12/azul/noticia/portugal-ja-plano-salvar-abelhas-borboletas-moscasdasflores-2170927
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Javier Martín
1 day ago
De esta pequeña visitante de las coles de al lado estoy más seguro de que es Lasioglossum.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
6 days ago
One month of sampling completed in the urban area Coimbra for BeeConnected SUDOE 🌿🐝 We surveyed pollinator diversity, floral resources and nesting resources across 16 urban green spaces. Now it is time to process samples and analyse the first data. We return in May for the second sampling month.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
10 days ago
João Loureiro (
@jloureiro13.bsky.social
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Portugal precisa de pessoas a tempo inteiro para monitorizar polinizadores, diz João Loureiro - Wilder
Abelhas, moscas-das-flores e borboletas, mais de 2000 espécies, vão passar a ser monitorizadas de forma consistente. A equipa que desenhou o novo Plano de Ação para a Conservação dos Polinizadores que...
https://wilder.pt/historias/portugal-precisa-de-pessoas-a-tempo-inteiro-para-monitorizar-polinizadores-diz-joao-loureiro
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Já estão disponíveis na página WEB do ICNF as versões finais, ilustradas, do Polinizadores em Ação e do respetivo resumo para stakeholders 🐝🌼 Consulta aqui:
www.icnf.pt/noticias/con...
Obrigado a tod@s @s envolvidos, com destaque para a equipa PolinizAÇÃO e para a designer Maria Carlos Oliveira 🙌
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Um marco para a conservação dos polinizadores em Portugal 🐝🌼 O Polinizadores em Ação foi oficialmente aprovado e publicado hoje (Despacho n.º 4214/2026). Um esforço coletivo da polli.NET e de muitos parceiros no território. 🧾
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
13 days ago
First flowers are now blooming in the restored beds at Pátio das Químicas, University of Coimbra 🌸 The first pollinators are here too, including a male and a female Anthophora plumipes, and we are now starting pollinator monitoring with the FITCount citizen science app 🐝
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
13 days ago
Los mirones de las abejas en los canteros de la Universidad! Também tu podes ser um mirone de las abejas! Instala o FITCount e vem espiar as abelhas e outros polinizadores connosco!
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Pollinator Academy
21 days ago
Meet the expert… Hugo Gaspar 🐝 Read more about Hugo in this post! Do you have any questions for him? Let us know the comments 👇🏻👇🏾
#PollinatorAcademy
#Meettheexpert
#Pollinators
#Bees
#Taxonomy
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
21 days ago
An unrequited love story between an Andrena bee and Ophrys fusca 💔🌸 A classic case of sexual deception, where the orchid mimics female cues to attract pollinators, not always successfully.
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RestPoll
28 days ago
🍎Did you Know? Apples depend on honeybees, wildbees and bumblebees for pollination🍏
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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European Citizen Science project
about 1 month ago
𝗔 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁 Join a session to know more, to contribute to finalising this first version of a citizen science competency framework. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
First nocturnal moth sampling at the Station of the Botanical Garden of the Universidade de Coimbra 🌙🦋 A total of 9 individuals recorded, belonging to 6 different species.
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Royal Entomological Society
about 1 month ago
🌍 Join us for
#InsectHour
! Our free online talk series is open to everyone, everywhere, making
#InsectScience
accessible across the globe. Join leading researchers as they explore the fascinating questions shaping our understanding of insects today. More to be announced 🔽
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Kicking off with Professor Dave Goulson - 13 May 2026
https://buff.ly/YSImzB5
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
A new Assets page is available at our website! It features our pollinator entomological collection, with about 25,000 insect specimens, including ~20,000 bees and ~1,000 hoverflies, as well as the flow cytometer used to estimate genome size and ploidy in plants.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
🎙️🐝 Hugo Gaspar from FLOWer Lab joined the podcast Palavra de Cientista to discuss the 2nd IUCN European Bee Red List. The assessment covered 1,928 species and found 171 threatened with extinction, while reducing Data Deficient species from 57% to 14% since 2014. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SWraZfEg9SCSYmXN2NceP
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
🦋 First butterfly transect of the FLOWer Lab! As part of the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, a citizen science initiative coordinated by TAGIS, we surveyed our site in Souselas. Despite marginal weather conditions, we recorded Gonopteryx sp., Pieris rapae and Callophrys rubi. A promising start! 🌿
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
Last Thursday, Biology students from
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
visited the Entomological Collection of the Department of Life Sciences (CE-DCV). The visit was part of the course Natural History Collections, and was hosted by Hugo Gaspar. CE-DCV houses ~25,000 insect specimens, including ~20,000 bees 🐝
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
🌍🐝 World Wildlife Day Plant–pollinator interactions are at the heart of biodiversity. Every flower visit sustains ecological networks that support wild plants, crops and ecosystem functioning 🌸🦋 Conserving wildlife means conserving these connections.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
News in PT:
www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...
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Investigador da FCTUC integra equipa de avaliação da Lista Vermelha das Abelhas Europeias da União Internacional para a Conservação da Natureza
https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/noticias/investigador-da-fctuc-integra-equipa-de-avaliacao-da-lista-vermelha-das-abelhas-europeias-da-uniao-internacional-para-a/
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month ago
Hugo Gaspar (FLOWer Lab, UC) contributed to the new IUCN European Red List of Bees 🐝 10% of Europe’s wild bees are threatened. The report highlights the need for national Red Lists – Portugal still lacks one. Report:
op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
A2P report:
op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Today, plants take the spotlight 👑🌿 We’re sharing some of the winter diversity we found in Coimbra and Souselas, a reminder that even in the colder months, botanical richness quietly persists across the landscape.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Today we’re sharing a wonderful interaction between a hoverfly (Eristalis sp.) and a gorse shrub (Ulex sp.) 🌼 Hoverflies are key generalist pollinators, and observations like this highlight their role in Mediterranean shrubland plant–pollinator networks.
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Pollinator Academy
about 2 months ago
Meet the expert… Juan Pablo Cancela 🦋 Read more about Juan Pablo in this post! Do you have any questions for him? Let us know the comments 👇🏻👇🏾
#PollinatorAcademy
#Meettheexpert
#Pollinators
#Butterfly
#Taxonomy
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Huge milestone for
#pollinators
! 🐝🪰 Members of FLOWer Lab contributed to a new paper in Scientific Data led by the University of Mons. The study compiles 5.3M+ records of European bees & hoverflies, covering 97% of species! Vital data for pollinator conservation. 🌍📉 Infographic made with NotebookLM
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
A fungus gnat (cf. Sciaridae) visiting Euphorbia characias (Mediterranean spurge) in Coimbra, Portugal
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Interaction recorded in Mata de Santa Catarina, Coimbra, PT: a fungus gnat (cf. Sciaridae) visiting Euphorbia characias (Mediterranean spurge). Observations like this contribute to documenting underexplored Diptera–Euphorbia interactions. Apologies for the brief focus instability in the video.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Yesterday in the Mata de Santa Catarina, an Eristalis hoverfly during its daily grooming routine 🪰 A small but meticulous ritual, cleaning wings and antennae, keeping flight performance at its best. Even brief sunny intervals matter.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Coimbra hosted the BeeConnected SUDOE participatory workshop 🐝 Stakeholders worked in groups to identify threats to pollinators, prioritize actions and co-create solutions for urban biodiversity. Thank you to all participants for your engagement and valuable contributions. 🌼
#BeeConnectedSUDOE
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 2 months ago
Até já Carolina! Foi um gosto enorme aprendermos contigo ao longo destes dois últimos anos! Estamos sempre aqui para o que necessitares! Muito obrigado por tudo! Boa sorte e muito sucesso para esta nova etapa!
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David Kleijn
3 months ago
First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111682
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Pollinator Academy
4 months ago
[1/3] We’re closing out the year with THREE new tools for pollinator identification. 1) Bee image database: Explore over 8,000 macro images covering more than 2,000 European Wild Bee species. Search by family, genus, or country to see diagnostic features in vivid detail 🐝
pollinatoracademy.eu/images
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Butterfly Conservation Europe
5 months ago
The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity
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Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-monitoring-support-restoration-eu-pollinators-2025-11-26_en
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A Comissão Europeia aprovou o EU-PoMS, o novo esquema que harmoniza a monitorização de polinizadores na UE. O primeiro período abrange 2027 a 2030. A proposta de PT-PoMS desenvolvida no PolinizAÇÃO e entregue ao ICNF está alinhada com o Ato Delegado aprovado. 🐝💛 📃
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Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-monitoring-support-restoration-eu-pollinators-2025-11-26_en#linkedin
5 months ago
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
5 months ago
🐝 Pollinators are worth billions. A new study from the FLOWer Lab shows they secure over €2B/year for PT agriculture, with €1.1B coming from wild pollinators. Protecting them is essential for our food, economy and future. Read it:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
News:
www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...
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Pollinator contribution to crop production: a temporal and economic assessment in Portugal - Regional Environmental Change
Pollination is a key ecosystem service that supports agriculture and food security, with significant economic relevance. Yet, national-scale assessments remain scarce, despite their critical role in i...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-025-02475-w
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João Loureiro
5 months ago
🐝 Os polinizadores valem milhões... Um novo estudo do FLOWer Lab revela que garantem mais de 2 mil milhões de €/ano à agricultura PT, sendo 1,1 mil milhões assegurados por polinizadores selvagens. Protegê-los é vital para a nossa alimentação, economia e futuro. Notícia:
www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...
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Pollinator contribution to crop production: a temporal and economic assessment in Portugal - Regional Environmental Change
Pollination is a key ecosystem service that supports agriculture and food security, with significant economic relevance. Yet, national-scale assessments remain scarce, despite their critical role in i...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-025-02475-w
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6 months ago
O suspense acabou… 🤭 Já podemos revelar a data e o programa de inauguração da nova exposição do
#PavilhaodoConhecimento
: “SUPERBICHOS! Incríveis por Natureza”. 📢 Marquem na agenda: 24 de outubro, sexta-feira, a partir das 18.30. Entrada livre. Programa:
www.pavconhecimento.pt/exposicoes/s...
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SUPERBICHOS! Incríveis por Natureza - Inauguração
A exposição
https://www.pavconhecimento.pt/exposicoes/superbichos/inauguracao
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Jeroen van der Sluijs
10 months ago
Butterfly's website is live! Follow
@butterfly-project.bsky.social
Please repost widely
@restpoll.bsky.social
@safeguard-pollinators.eu
pollinators.eu
@wildposh.eu
osh.eu
@pollinera-horizon.eu
@pollinis.org
@bioagora.eu
@pollinet.bsky.social
@horizoneu.bsky.social
@davegoulson.bsky.social
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10 months ago
Very proud to hear this wonderful talk by
#SilviaCastro
from
@pollinet.bsky.social
. 👏
#SPECO
has been very well represented at
@sibecol.bsky.social
#congress
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Chris van Swaay
12 months ago
The Dutch Grassland Butterfly indicator (
www.clo.nl/indicatoren/...
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Seirian Sumner
about 1 year ago
How to create a
#nature-literate
society. My latest article
@theconversation.com
Revaluing naturalists' skills is essential for a future where we work with, not against, nature. Notice Name Nurture
#GreenJobs
theconversation.com/heres-how-to...
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Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society
Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.
https://theconversation.com/heres-how-to-create-a-more-nature-literate-society-253373
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João Loureiro
about 1 year ago
Ontem foi um dia muito bonito! Obrigado a todos os envolvidos! Visitem a exposição Pequenos Gigantes - Guardiões da Biodiversidade para ficarem a conhecer melhor alguns da diversidade de polinizadores que podem encontrar em Portugal através do olho e da lente do Albano Soares!
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
🌿 New publication with FLOWer Lab’s contribution! With Sílvia Castro, led by Catarina Gomes from Madeira Botanical Group, this study on Musschia wollastonii reveals its mixed reproductive system—self-pollination and insect pollinators, mostly hoverflies and butterflies. Many act as pollen robbers!
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
🐝 New publication! The chapter "Taxonomy of European Apoidea: Anthophila", by Hugo Gaspar (FLOWer Lab) & Simone Flaminio (Univ. of Mons), provides a practical guide to bee diversity & identification in Europe. 📖 Part of "Hidden and Wild: An Integrated Study of European Wild Bees". Read it 👇
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Taxonomy of European Apoidea Anthophila
While taxonomy in general is not often widely considered a thriving scientific subject, European bee taxonomy is living in an exciting era, pushed by a new generation of taxonomists who are creating r...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-76742-5_2#DOI
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Jenn Rose
about 1 year ago
Not one but three Andrena cineraria nesting aggregations spotted today. They love these south facing walls. (Also, it was ~20C today 😵💫)
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more4nature
about 1 year ago
Could ChatGPT help us to protect
#biodiversity
? An international panel of experts has come up with 21 ideas where
#AI
could revolutionize biodiversity conservation 🤖🐛
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