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.

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

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!

First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

[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

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 environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...

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. 🐝💛 📃 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

🐝 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...

🐝 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...

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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Very proud to hear this wonderful talk by #SilviaCastro from @pollinet.bsky.social. 👏 #SPECO has been very well represented at @sibecol.bsky.social #congress

The Dutch Grassland Butterfly indicator (www.clo.nl/indicatoren/...) shows a decline of more than 70%. It will be hard to achieve an increasing trend in 2030, as required in art 11 in the Nature Restoration Regulation (eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...).

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... @uclnews.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social

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!

🌿 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!

🐝 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 👇

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

Could ChatGPT help us to protect #biodiversity? An international panel of experts has come up with 21 ideas where #AI could revolutionize biodiversity conservation 🤖🐛

You complete my life-cycle 💕 One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants. #MoonMeadows #MothsMatter

Sílvia Castro, co-PI of FLOWer Lab, participated yesterday in the round table organised by the Biology students association on the role of women in science, during the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬 #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience

🐝 New data on Portugal’s bees! The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra holds the largest historical bee collection in Portugal. A new study by the FLOWer Lab reveals 13,374 records, 11,053 unpublished until now, covering 464 species, incl. 11 new to Portugal! 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....

🎉Congratulations! The PolinizAÇÃO project wraps up its 7 participatory workshops, paving the way for an Action Plan to protect #pollinators in Portugal! A great collaboration between citizens & institutions. We’re proud to be part of it! Here's how it happened! 🐝🌿 @pollinet.bsky.social

🌿 @jloureiro13.bsky.social was one of the speakers at dcv.talks this week! He presented "Through the citizens’ lenses: Plant-Pollinator Interactions on iNaturalist", showcasing how citizen science helps unveil plant-pollinator interactions. This initiative was launched by the PolinizAÇÃO project 🐝📸

🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡 Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination! 📖 Read it 👇

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

🌿 Sílvia Castro was Feb’s speaker of Sociedade Broteriana Talks! Sílvia Castro presented “Nothing is permanent except change: O. pes-caprae on the Mediterranean Basin”. She shared progress from COST ConservePlants initiative studying floral morphotypes & ploidy levels of invasive Bermuda buttercup.

📚🐝 Descobre o novo livro sobre as abelhas de Portugal! Foi publicado pela Imprensa da UC o livro “Chaves Dicotómicas dos Géneros de Abelhas de Portugal. Hymenoptera: Anthophila”! Coordenado por Hugo Gaspar do @flowerlab.bsky.social descarreguem esta obra aqui: monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...

Our hoverflies have a new home! 🗄️🪰 As part of the #ARCADE project (tettris.eu/3rd-party-pr...), a 3PP of the @tettris.eu, we are transferring the hoverflies from the FLOWer Lab entomological collection to the new entomological boxes and cabinets! #nameittosaveit #tettriseu #arcade

No passado dia 14 de janeiro, decorreu o 4º workshop participativo do PolinizAÇÃO, dedicado às Práticas de Gestão em Áreas Produtivas e Classificadas no Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Foi uma manhã repleta de partilha de ideias, construção de soluções e um forte compromisso com a biodiversidade!

Very interesting review article "Crop diversification for pollinator conservation" by Thijs Fijen, @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social, @juliaosterman.bsky.social, @catrinwestphal.bsky.social and co-authors in Landscape Ecology!

The great @isatxu.bsky.social was one of the speakers at today's DCV talks, presenting “Functional ecology in a changing world: understanding global change impacts on species interactions.” It was a fascinating talk!

The #IMPETUS4CS third and final open call for #citizenscience projects starts TOMORROW!! We want to support and spotlight new and ongoing #citsci projects, through our 2025 Accelerator programme and the #EUprize for citizen science! Learn More Here! impetus4cs.eu/empowering-c...

Oxalis pes-caprae and the Melanostoma, to end 2024!

Narcissus bulbocodium in 4 acts!

More winter biodiversity, this time during the last hiking of this year in Canhão do Vale de Poios!

Some of the few biodiversity (we’re in winter, it’s normal! ☺️) found on the Coal Route in Porto de Mós! @flowerlab.bsky.social @pollinet.bsky.social

O PolinizAÇÃO no Podcast "Palavrões de Ciência"! 🎙️ João Loureiro (@jloureiro13.bsky.social) e Sílvia Castro do @flowerlab.bsky.social juntaram-se a @cnobresoares.bsky.social e Marco Neves no episódio intitulado "Polinizadores, os taxistas do amor"! 🐝 💛 Saibam mais sobre os insetos polinizadores.

There are many non-honeybee insects that pollinate flowers, but not a lot of images showing it clearly. I got lucky to accidentally catch this beetle literally depositing pollen on a flower's pistil. #pollination #insects #bugs #photography #science #pollen

Obrigado Dr. Paiva!! #onataldopaivaparasempre #paivaliricoparasempre #liricosdoambiente

Afonso Petronilho, MSc student of the FLOWer Lab, participated in the 23rd National Meeting in Ecology where he presented some results of his MSc "Bloom and Bite: two congeneric Utricularia species with distinct reproductive strategies". Thanks SPECO, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO and CIIMAR for the opportunity.

The impact of megafires on moth populations. Very interesting review paper by Latty and Forster in Current Opinion in Insect Science!

🌸 Novidades fresquinhas 🌸 Em breve será lançada uma série de crónicas sobre Polinizadores e Polinização, em parceria com a revista Wilder! Ao longo dos próximos meses poderão deliciar-se com 13 crónicas com histórias, curiosidades e factos acerca destes pequenos guardiões das flores! Não percam!

Começámos! 🚀 No dia 22 de novembro, iniciámos os workshops participativos sobre polinizadores e polinização, que decorrem até fevereiro de 2025. 🐝🦋 💬 Estes workshops reúnem entidades para identificar ações do futuro Plano de Ação para a Conservação e Sustentabilidade dos Polinizadores em Portugal.

A plant-pollinator interaction in several frames! Are you able to see the Eristalis in the first photo?

The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺 Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @pollinet.bsky.social

Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸