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Collaborative Network for the Evaluation, Conservation and Valuing of
#Pollinators
and
#Pollination
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David Kleijn
about 9 hours ago
First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know)
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111682
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Pollinator Academy
8 days 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
about 1 month 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
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
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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. 🐝💛 📃
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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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
about 1 month ago
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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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3 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
6 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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7 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
8 months ago
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...
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Seirian Sumner
9 months 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...
@uclnews.bsky.social
@curlewaction.bsky.social
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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
9 months 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 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
10 months 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 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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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Butterfly Conservation
11 months ago
You complete my life-cycle 💕 One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants.
#MoonMeadows
#MothsMatter
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
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
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
🐝 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....
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New data from the historical bee collection (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and additional faunistic updates for Portugal
Entomological collections hold significant scientific potential, especially understudied taxa of historical collections from important biogeographical regions, such as bees in Portugal. The S...
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.142965
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more4nature
11 months ago
🎉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
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
🌿
@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 🐝📸
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
🌿🐝 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 👇
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EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70000
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iBartomeus
11 months ago
[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!
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EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70000
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
🌿 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.
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João Loureiro
11 months ago
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Quer saber mais sobre as abelhas selvagens de Portugal? Há um novo livro e é gratuito
Universidade de Coimbra lança livro para identificação de abelhas de Portugal onde se resumem as famílias, subfamílias, tribos e géneros presentes no país. Em Portugal há 750 espécies destes insectos.
https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/22/azul/noticia/quer-saber-abelhas-selvagens-portugal-ha-novo-livro-gratuito-2119723?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2muxliNhy5RVD-PMQHKy6tJIvsPR_7O0jc9Fvu6bFK5Lx9JgS7e73N5S8_aem_b8TW_Na9FiE5ibzsaYxJww
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📚🐝 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/...
11 months ago
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
11 months ago
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
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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!
12 months ago
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
12 months ago
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!
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Crop diversification for pollinator conservation - Landscape Ecology
Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-024-02027-3
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
12 months ago
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!
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IMPETUS4CS
12 months ago
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...
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João Loureiro
12 months ago
Oxalis pes-caprae and the Melanostoma, to end 2024!
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João Loureiro
12 months ago
Narcissus bulbocodium in 4 acts!
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João Loureiro
12 months ago
More winter biodiversity, this time during the last hiking of this year in Canhão do Vale de Poios!
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João Loureiro
about 1 year ago
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
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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.
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Polinizadores, os “taxistas do amor”
Palavrões da Ciência · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SCHbkXvsIo9iTLpYk4nCg
about 1 year ago
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Théotime Colin
about 1 year ago
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
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João Loureiro
about 1 year ago
Obrigado Dr. Paiva!!
#onataldopaivaparasempre
#paivaliricoparasempre
#liricosdoambiente
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
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.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
The impact of megafires on moth populations. Very interesting review paper by Latty and Forster in Current Opinion in Insect Science!
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Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems
Fire is a natural part of many ecosystems, however, as a consequence of climate change, unusually large ‘megafires’ are expected to increase in occurr…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214574524001469
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🌸 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!
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about 1 year ago
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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.
about 1 year ago
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
A plant-pollinator interaction in several frames! Are you able to see the Eristalis in the first photo?
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
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/...
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Joanna Bagniewska
about 1 year ago
Super cool research from
@wildcru.bsky.social
- Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸
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about 1 year ago
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Emily May
about 1 year ago
Insect conservation starter pack from
@rghatfield.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/5WA4S1U
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬
about 1 year ago
Exciting times! 🗄️🐝 As part of the ARCADE project, a 3PP of TETTRIs, the FLOWer Lab acquired new entomological cabinets and boxes to accommodate its collection in the best possible conditions. Many thanks
@rkellerp.bsky.social
and its team for all the advice.
#nameittosaveit
#tettriseu
#taxonomy
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