🚨 Alarm! EU Kommission will Pestizide unbefristet zulassen! Gälte das heute schon, wären u.a. folgende Pestizide noch auf dem Markt: ☠️ Chlorpyrifos (verursacht Hirnschäden) ☠️ Mancozeb (hormonschädigend) ☠️ Imidacloprid (Bienenkiller) Jetzt protestieren ⤵️ umweltinstitut.org/landwirtscha...

Schmetterling des Jahres 2026 ist der: Dunkler Wiesenknopf-Ameisenbläuling (#Phengaris_nausithous)

Our editor @juliaosterman.bsky.social was at the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium last week, no doubt giving everyone the buzz about Advances in Pollinator Science!

Come and work with us 🇸🇪

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

@uni-freiburg.de explains RestPoll members the Nagoya protocol and it's implications.

Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM

Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social

Fruit production in Spain and some Nature Group team members inbetween millions of apples #RestPollAGM2

JOB OFFER ⚠️ Research Engineer in Economics #RestPoll project 🌼 Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches  ➡️ https://www.iamm.ciheam.org/en/agendas/vacancy-announcement-recruitment-of-a-research-engineer-in-economics-3/

A new study in Science evaluating published data from 19 countries has pinpointed the minimum habitat levels needed to sustain pollinators in agricultural landscapes. https://scim.ag/3VIq4Cg

🐝Šovasar LU Bioloģijas 3. kursa studente, BSC praktikante Aleksandra Koliņa kopā ar zinātnisko asistenti Džesiku Girardi darbojās projektā #RestPoll, pētot apputeksnētāju daudzveidību Vidzemes lauku saimniecībās. 🔗Bloga raksts par praktikantes pieredzi: lnkd.in/dCbvJZ8J #EUProjects #WildPollinators

🆕 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!

An exceptionally rich issue just published in JPE, with a wide variety of high-quality articles, 3 methodology papers with potential to become standard ref. & thought-provoking commentaries to spark discussion on pollinator monitoring: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

Population monitoring of the Clouded apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne, pikkuapollo) in S Finland (14 June, 2025).

Kurzfilm von Jan Haft über einen der seltensten Schmetterlinge Europas, der in Deutschland durch Schafbeweidung ausgerottet wurde. Dabei nahm man eigentlich an, dass sie die Art erhalten sollte. www.bfn.de/projektsteck...

Perhaps you've got doi.org/10.1038/s415... already on your list?

these provide some concrete guidelines imo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Call for help! For a course about nature #conservation on land, we are looking for recent "must-read' publications. It could be anything from practical conservation efforts to policy. Focus is though Europe and even Northern Europe. What are your must-reads? #biology #restoration #protection

💬 Would you buy bee-friendly food? Then help us with your opinion and take part in our survey (approx. 20 min). 👉Your answers will help to make our food system more sustainable and promote the protection of pollinators. Available in 7 different languages! agreconlab.limesurvey.net/328536?lang=en

Infos zum #Weltbienentag: 🐝 Fast die Hälfte der Bienenarten Deutschlands (48 %) sind bestandsgefährdet oder ausgestorben, so die #RoteListe der #Bienen. Nur 37 % sind ungefährdet, 5 % extrem selten, 8 % stehen auf der Vorwarnliste.🐝 ➡️ www.rote-liste-zentrum.de/de/Info-zum-... (1/3)

Morgen startet die bundesweite #Krautschau-Aktionswoche - schon über 60 öffentliche Spaziergänge in 14 Bundesländern sind angemeldet! 🤗 Es können jederzeit noch weitere Spaziergänge eingetragen werden - hier lang: www.senckenberg.de/krautschau (auch für alle weiteren Infos zur Aktion)

Please ask #EU to ban #BottomTrawling! It destroys the sea bottom and also kills huge amount of non-targeted fish and marine life. #fishing #oceans act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

Die Blutweiderich-Sägehornbiene (Melitta nigricans) war bis vor wenigen Jahren in Südniedersachsen nicht nachgewiesen - wurde 2019 aber erstmals im Alten Botanischen Garten der @unigoettingen.bsky.social entdeckt. Diese hochspezialisierte Art sammelt Pollen ausschließlich an Blutweiderich.

The @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 deadline for early bird registration and abstract submission has just been extended to May 15th. If you did not make it for some reason, please submit your abstracts now!

We are #hiring a lecturer and #researcher: - Teaching in ecology and nature conservation - Research on plant-pollinator interactions - Supervision of students - Contribution to our major collaborative projects Start 01.09.2025 Salary according to TV-L E13, 100% 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Excited to share that our new Nature paper was featured by our 🇸🇪 national broadcaster @svtnyheter.bsky.social! You can see the online version here www.svt.se/nyheter/inri..., and catch more details in the 19:30 live shows from yesterday (starting at 10 minutes in; www.svtplay.se/video/ey2XEm...).

Every wondered how a grant proposal for a Horizon Europe project looks like? We just published our for the @wildposh.eu project. Check out what we plan to do in the coming years 👇 riojournal.com/article/1561...

Every wondered how a grant proposal for a Horizon Europe project looks like? We just published our for the @wildposh.eu project. Check out what we plan to do in the coming years 👇 riojournal.com/article/1561...

📣 Calling all nature lovers! Join TNC as we take on the City Nature Challenge from April 25–28. Download the iNaturalist app to snap photos of the plants, animals and insects you see, then upload these observations to your city’s iNaturalist project. 📱🦋🌼 Get involved here: nature.ly/3RyIy61

Excited to receive our "field guide to urban plants" to fight against plant blindness with @juliakrohmer.bsky.social 🌷😊

Zur Öko-Landwirtschaft in 🇩🇪 fand ich bisher nur Zahlen für Bundesländer (@thuenen.de ↘️ www.thuenen.de/en/th...; BFN ↘️ www.bfn.de/daten-und...). Hier ist nun unser Blick auf die Verteilung der Ökoflächen auf Kreisebene im Jahr 2020.

Insekten-Oasen in der Stadt: Auf urbanen Brachflächen gibt es genauso viele Insekten wie in Naturschutzgebieten. 🐞🐝🪰 Bei Wildbienen sind sie sogar beliebter als die Schutzgebiete. Das zeigt eine neue Studie der Uni Halle. Die Ergebnisse liefern wichtige Hinweise für den #Artenschutz. mlu.de/2ewg5

Mehr Mut zur (Bau)Lücke. Tut auch 🐝 und Co. gut! @juliaosterman.bsky.social

Alicia Kling tested successfully oral and contact exposures of several pesticides with an oligolectic versus poylectic bee species as part of @wildposh.eu together with @juliaosterman.bsky.social Dimitry Wintermantel. Great presentation at the annual conferene of bee research institutes.

#Insekten trotzen dem #Winter mit erstaunlichen Überlebensstrategien: Vom Zitronenfalter, der sein eigenes Frostschutzmittel produziert, bis zum Distelfalter, der nach Afrika zieht – die kleinen Überlebenskünstler haben einiges drauf, erklärt Björn Lohmann:

👥 Over two days in Paris, the WildPosh Annual General Meeting brought together project partners to reflect on past achievements and set the course for the upcoming year. Read more here: wildposh.eu/news/wildpos... #WildPoshMeets

Spotlight on this week’s #WildPoshSpecies: Osmia bicornis! Say hello to the red mason bee! This solitary bee nests in pre-existing cavities like hollow stems and wood. Unlike honeybees or bumblebees, red mason bees don’t make honey but they’re hard at work as pollinators, especially of fruit trees.

📄 We just enriched our library with a new resource titled Crop Diversification for Pollinator Conservation. 🌿 It looks at the mechanisms and current evidence base of how increasing the diversity of crops can benefit pollinator biodiversity. Check it out here: wildposh.eu/library #WildPoshResources

‚Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms’ Relevant new paper by Wan et al. in Nature Communications „…synthesis shows that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have broad-scale detrimental effects on all groups of non-target organisms tested.…“ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2. 🧵Different processes that facilitate polyploid establishment on their own often co-vary negatively with each other, making associations difficult to find and causal frameworks essential. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.

How cool arent these Vaccinium trees and their blueberry-flowers in Canary Islands? Canary island strawberry tree ☀️ Arbutus canariensis

Ice crystals today in the forest around Gothenburg in Sweden. How cool aren’t they?!

📢 New study: Insect Biomasse & abundance were similar in protected areas & urban wastelands, but 🐝wild bee diversity was higher in urban areas! Protected areas (Natura 2000) may need targeted management to support pollinators. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @wilosterman.bsky.social

📢 New study: Insect Biomasse & abundance were similar in protected areas & urban wastelands, but 🐝wild bee diversity was higher in urban areas! Protected areas (Natura 2000) may need targeted management to support pollinators. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @wilosterman.bsky.social

New study: #CropDiversification can help pollinators without taking land out of agricultural production, but only some #pollinator species may benefit. We highlight mechanisms on the spatial and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social

Great collaboration between Thijs Fijen, Ola Lundin, @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social, @juliaosterman.bsky.social, and a team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social, @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

New paper out! 🎉 We synthesise the mechanisms oh how crop diversification can benefit pollinators with a focus in Western Europe and North America. @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social @catrinwestphal.bsky.social Led by @ThijsFijen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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!