El mapa de la crisis demográfica europea: así sería la Europa sin inmigración que ansía la extrema derecha. El auge de la extrema derecha en Europa, con sus políticas antiinmigración, puede acelerar el descenso demográfico en Europa, provocando una crisis en la economía

🎯¿Cómo ha sido este último año político? Los partidos suelen tener un discurso, con sus alianzas y estategias, pero.. ¿y si nos fijamos en algo empírico, demostrable, sobre cómo y con quién han votado en el Congreso este último año para ver parentescos reales entre las diferentes formaciones?🧶

Twenty-four entomological societies, representing nearly 22,000 insect scientists from six continents, agree: "Progress in insect science is shaped not only by the entomologists who study insects but also by the policies and investments of nations."

Starting up! 🙌☀️ Opening words from Domingo Marquina (UCM), Isabel Rey (MNCN-CSIC) and Rafael Zardoya (MNCN-CSIC) 🗣️ The focus is on #pollinator declines 📉 and the importance of collaborative projects like #INCSTEP in addressing them! 🐝🪰🦋 #NHMs and reference collections are key to monitoring them!

“Lepidoptera Fluminensis” is a forgotten eighteenth-century lepidochromy book on Brazilian moths and butterflies. Researchers present a history of lepidochromy alongside the history of the book. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

Ataque de un macho de abeja Anthidium a otro macho que estaba descansando. Al final parece que intenta clavarle las espinas que tienen estos machos en el culo. No he visto cosa más camorrista entre las abejas que los machos de este género.

Taxonomy is under constant change; species classification is revised continuously, and changes accumulate affecting biodiversity metrics & generating uncertainty that is rarely assessed. Juliana Stropp review how taxonomic changes have changed the observed Amazonian palm richness patterns 👇🧪🌐 #NICED

New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

Desde el grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET hemos creado un punto de encuentro para las personas que trabajamos con el medio natural y usamos herramientas computacionales - únete a la comunidad respondiendo a este mensaje o contactándome por privado! go.bsky.app/FWR2yEM 🌱🐻💚🖥️

Attending last week's basic #EPICBEE course in #Seia was a delight! 🇵🇹 Hugo Gaspar, Piluca Álvarez and Albano Soares were all fantastic teachers 🧑🏻‍🏫. I'm looking forward to the intermediate courses! 🎓 Training para-taxonomists to empower EU #taxonomy and tackle the pollinator's crisis! 📉🇪🇺

Mis fotos también gritan #FreePalestine

'I don't want to drown; I want to swim! I want to swim with people; I don't want to swim alone." 🤝 – Ernest Mas, a farmer from Tarragona (Spain), on #degrowth and #regenerative agriculture 🌱 (E2, 14:26). This series offers a breath of fresh air amid climate pessimism! 🌍 www.rtve.es/play/videos/...

🚨 Methods paper out now! nhcm.pensoft.net 📄 How can we make #entomology more engaging? Printed insect #3Dmodels can help! 🖨️ 🐜 Here we provide a guide to producing insect replicas to help overcome common issues in entomological #outreach activities! 🧩 Check it out! doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

A Tale of Two Commas. Right now, the midsummer brood of Comma butterflies is emerging across Britain. Look closely and you may notice that it has two different colour forms: the typical, darker morph (right) and a much brighter, golden morph (left) known as f. hutchinsoni

🚨 Methods paper out now! nhcm.pensoft.net 📄 How can we make #entomology more engaging? Printed insect #3Dmodels can help! 🖨️ 🐜 Here we provide a guide to producing insect replicas to help overcome common issues in entomological #outreach activities! 🧩 Check it out! doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

Researchers describe the development of a digitising-printing workflow for 3D scanned insect replicas. They present two use case studies and discuss potential benefits and applications for natural history museums. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

"i crave light"

Verdigris appreciation post 👀

okay so now we have a bit more clarity and idk, it's not the *worst* case scenario and there's a world where this could even be a genuinely interesting use case (after all, having those things pointed out is key to learning IDs). but i'm still not overall thrilled bc...

An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️ We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️ Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6

No deja de ser chocante que nos preocupemos por saber si hay vida en otros planetas cuando todavía no conocemos toda la que hay en este. En @climatica.coop 

'En extinción. Lepidoptera', by Toya Legido, starts tomorrow at RJB-CSIC. It features more than 4,000 paper-cut butterflies belonging to 50 species, representing their own decline ✂️🦋 Butterflies once again bridge the gap between #science 🧪 and #art 🎨!

Brilliant thread about a fascinating insect specimen (hawk moth with an ant bite) & the importance of Natural History Collections🏛️ in answering big science questions today! Gotta keep our collections alive folks! 💪 [Insert "subtle" advert for the HKBM @hkbm.bsky.social & NatHist research here😜]

An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️ We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️ Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

⚠️Escasean los expertos para estudiar la diversidad de insectos en España⚠️ 🪲Un equipo de especialistas, liderado por los investigadores del #IICG Fernando Cortés-Fossati, Marcos Méndez y Elvira Caro-Miralles, ha documentado el descenso de tesis doctorales sobre insectos en las últimas décadas.

La colección de artrópodos es la más numerosa y diversa de las del MCNB. Alberga ejemplares de la mayoría de los subfilos principales, aunque predominan los insectos (Hexapoda). Nueva actualización: ▶️ doi.org/10.15468/pew... #CiteTheDOI ▶️ colecciones.gbif.es/public/showD...

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Delighted to join the European butterfly community in NL this week for #FutureofButterflies with @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social well represented by three talks and two posters - @guim091.bsky.social @adsalbert.bsky.social and @jpcancela.bsky.social also sharing our work on #insect responses to global change

Quote "given the resilience of individuals and local stocks (sic), the threat of total extinction [of the European eel] seems unlikely" It is disconcerting researchers state this in such a prestigious journal What should we expect of polititians? (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

These are probably my favourites! Bumblebee from the Transformers movie should have been named after this genus: #Anthidium. Some species look a lot like wasps! 🐝 Here you can check some ID features: www.idmybee.com/anthidium.html

Another quick ID attempt today! Their distinctive appearance made it not too difficult 🔍 Strongly curved basal vein (Halictidae) and terguite pilosity growing from the apical border of the terguites (Halictus)! 🐝 Tentative sp ID is scabiosae/sexcinctus. Any suggestions? 🕵🏻‍♂️

The third ID session was complicated, but luckily I had lots of help! - all help, in fact 😅 Let me introduce you to Megachile pyrenaica! A polylectic species whose females build nests from mud and their own saliva (dauber bees). 🐝 🏺 More info on this genus: www.idmybee.com/megachile.html

Second #KnowYourBees attempt almost disastrous! Being an amateur bee voyeur, I wasn't sure about this 'weird Andrena': it was a honeybee! Here, 3️⃣ tips to avoid mistakes: They have 'banana-shaped' edge cells and hairy eyes (both ♀ and ♂). Drones (♂) are easier to spot if they have large 'fly eyes'!

First attempt at bee identification after the end of the #BeeCourseBarcelona and... lucky me! Took a random box from the didactic collection (spec. without data labels) and found this #Anthophora plumipes - the only species of this genus present in Spain. 🐝🔍

Do you need a nice activity for your lunch break? Check out this overview of nighttime pollination by @emtomology.bsky.social youtu.be/JSrAthMPjyc?...

Una expedición liderada por científicos españoles ha descubierto la presencia del virus de la gripe aviar altamente patogénica en 188 animales de 13 especies distintas analizados en 24 localizaciones de la Antártida.

All good things come to an end... and so does the #KnowYourBees course! Four amazing days with 15 excellent trainees and teachers that ended with a visit to the Arthropod collection of the @museuciencies.cat. This is not goodbye, it's just a see you later for now!

Today is the day! The course on bee taxonomy and ecology is already started at Jardí Botànic de Barcelona @museuciencies.cat! Jordi Bosch (@creaf.cat) has given an inaugural talk on ecology of bees 🐝🌼. Thank you very much for sharing your deep knowledge about bee life! @tettris.eu #KnowYourBees

I've been putting off migrating this big thread from X for a while, but now I've got to do it! It combines two hot topics: #videogames 🎮 and #entomology 🦋... Would you like me to give you a scientifically based curiosity about each butterfly #Lepidoptera species in Animal Crossing? New Horizons 🌊🍃?

Estrenamos proyecto de web para la Colección Entomológica @universidadoviedo.bsky.social. Con mucho que añadir todavía del trabajo fantástico de re-identificación, catalogación y conservación que están haciendo @entomoprofessor.bsky.social @alexnunez23.bsky.social Laura Torrado y Olga Fernández.

Occasionally one stumbles across particularly remarkable specimens during the most basic tasks in Natural History museums 🏛️ In this case, I want to talk you about this 'Baronia brevicornis' (MNCN_Ent 378709), a butterfly considered a #living #fossil 🦋🦴

@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social (@mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es) explains why #TETTRIsEU Satellite @incstep.bsky.social pushes for a #pollinators 🐝 Reference Collection in Spain 🇪🇸 By the way, we are out with a #policybrief on Reference Collections 👉 tettris.eu/Publications/ shorturl.at/cfrQL

The environmental cost of war is part of the human cost of war. 🇵🇸 🌍 e360.yale.edu/features/gaz...

I've been putting off migrating this big thread from X for a while, but now I've got to do it! It combines two hot topics: #videogames 🎮 and #entomology 🦋... Would you like me to give you a scientifically based curiosity about each butterfly #Lepidoptera species in Animal Crossing? New Horizons 🌊🍃?

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The global collapse of insect populations is a threat to all life on earth. Global threats to insects by Wagner et al. (2021) via UN Biodiversity.

📢 Don't miss this! We've brought together various members of entomological NHCs and interviewed them! 🗣️💬 Come and meet the people behind the insects! 🦋🪰🐝

Entomological collections are sustained by all those involved in their study and management. From #INCSTEP @tettris.eu we want to give them voice 🗣️, so we will publish a series of short interviews to introduce some of these people linked to the project. Today, let's meet Antonio Ricarte! 🪰🌼