Canarias destaca por el alto número de especies de abejas endémicas que no existen en ningún otro lugar. Sin embargo, la nueva evaluación de las abejas europeas en la Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas revela una situación preocupante para algunas de ellas polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...

Out now in @science.org, OIST researchers and collaborators find 79% of endemic ant species in Fiji in decline, highlighting the vulnerability of island biodiversity to ecosystem changes: www.oist.jp/news-center/...

Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands. DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hace poco se anunció el hallazgo de un insecto palo gigante (Acrophylla alta) en Australia. ¿Os suena? ¡Seguro que sí! Pues os diré algo: cada semana se describen cientos de nuevas especies de artrópodos en el mundo (aunque no son tan mediáticas). ¡Conocer la biodiversidad es clave para protegerla!

L'abeille mellifère, domestique, représente une seule espèce que nous sélectionnons selon nos besoins de production, de miel essentiellement. Comme les poules. La biodiversité des abeilles sauvages, de la superfamille des Apoidea, est bien +vaste, 950 espèces en 🇫🇷. Ce sont elles qui sont en danger.

🦋 ¡El próximo viernes 25 de julio te invitamos a conocer una mariposa única en el mundo! Ven a conocer a la Mariposa del Año 2025 🏆: el Sátiro de El Hierro (Hipparchia bacchus), uno de los tesoros más especiales de la isla. 📍 Lugar: Valle de El Golfo, norte de El Hierro 📩 [email protected]

🦋✨ ¿Estás en El Hierro este viernes 25 de julio? Ven a conocer a la Mariposa del Año 2025 🏆: el Sátiro de El Hierro (Hipparchia bacchus), uno de los tesoros más especiales de la isla 🏝️ 📍 Lugar: Valle de El Golfo, norte de El Hierro ⏰ Hora: 16:30 h 📩 Info e inscripciónes: [email protected]

Ceylalictus variegatus ♀︎ (Halictidae), abeja que se distribuye sobre todo en el sur y este peninsular y a pesar de ser común, es difícil de ver por su pequeño tamaño (4-5mm). Cabeza y tórax verde metalizado y abdomen negro con bandas amarillas. Caracoles (P.N.Doñana) 20/05/25 @ebdonana.bsky.social

🦋 ¿Te gustaría ayudar a conservar una mariposa única en el mundo? ¡Buscamos colaboradores en El Hierro! Únete a nuestro equipo para monitorizar el sátiro de El Hierro - Hipparchia bacchus - una mariposa endémica que solo vive en esta isla y #MariposaDelAño 2025 ✉️ [email protected] 👇

Robert Ostrom, @schuemaa.bsky.social and co show concrete consequences of changing land, as honey bees need to travel almost twice as far during foraging flights after construction. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

#VALOR has launched a new communication channel - its official website 💻 It will serve as the main hub for project updates, events, outputs, and project overview. 🌐Explore the site and stay informed: valor-project.eu

The looming government cuts that are destroying native bee research and monitoring efforts www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🧪 How many bee species are there? A quantitative global estimate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Every country is warming. Every country is experiencing more extreme weather events because of climate change, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. www.ShowYourStripes.info Time to #ShowYourStripes and start climate conversations to prompt actions to reduce emissions, personally & collectively.

In a blog post published by the #UniversityofReading, #VALOR coordinator Dr. Tom Breeze explains why pollinator conservation must go beyond farmers and include the entire food system.🐝 💻 Read full blog post here: research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...

🐝 Hoy es el #DíaMundialDeLasAbejas ¿Sabías que en Canarias hay más de 130 especies de abejas, la mayoría silvestres y solitarias? Aunque no hacen miel, ¡son esenciales para nuestros ecosistemas! 🌼https://polinizadoresdecanarias.org/dia_mundial_de_las_abejas/

Exciting news! 🌟 The VI Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA 2025) will be held in Tenerife, a true biodiversity hotspot in Macaronesia 🏝️🔬 🔗 cisaconference.org

So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Ha salido el informe climático europeo de 2024: - Es el continente que más se está calentando - Las inundaciones provocaron 335 muertos - Segundo año con mayor días con fuerte estrés térmico Europa tiene que liderar la transición ecológica. Nos va la vida en ello. wmo.int/es/news/medi...

🐝 🦋 🪰 🧬 Hosting Opportunity for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 - Pollinators Conservation + Omics in @um.es Spain. If you hold a PhD (max 8 years’ experience) and meet MSCA PF criteria, apply by July 7, 2025. Please forward! 📢📢 More info in: lnkd.in/ddG_RdxC

NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉 We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜 "Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa A summary 🧵 below (1/7)

When honey bees ‘disappeared’ on this small Italian island, wild bees feasted | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

📢Our partner @ull.es is seeking a Postdoc to work on the #VALOR project in the field of Biology Sub-area. Entomology. 📅Deadline: 2 April 2025. 🔗Find details here: www.ull.es/portal/convo...

Honeybees interfere with wild bees in apple pollination in China. Wild bees contribute much higher pollination efficiency than honeybees. Introducing honeybee colonies increased competition with wild bees leading to reduced pollination overall. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As we wrap up #VALORmeets2025, we extend our gratitude to everyone who participated, contributed, and shared their expertise, as well as to all who will be working on the project in the years ahead. Over the next four years, we look forward to productive collaboration and impactful results. 💛

1/8 Different types of social learning in ants Tandem running is a form of learning in these insects, whereby an ant follows a guide who takes it to a place of interest. The two run close together, learning from one another. It seems that they do not all learn in the same way

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

My first male Osmia cornuta for 2025. This is one of the bees that has shrunk the most in size over the past few decades. 40 years ago it weighed on average 67 mg, now it has shrunk down to 54 mg, or a ~20%. Fore more details on Cazorla'a shrinking bees see our study here doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose

1/2 The mathematical platonism of bees It is confirmed that bees (like us - primates - and also birds) have a preference for ordering numbers from left to right. The reason for this universality remains unclear. (paper) https://buff.ly/40UkU8q

[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!

The #VALOR project materials were displayed at the WildPosh Annual General Meeting in Paris, France, hosted by @anses-fr.bsky.social. WildPosh epresentatives from 40+ partner institutions reviewed key achievements and outlined the next steps for advancing the project.🐝 #pesticides #pollinators

¡El Sátiro de El Hierro, Mariposa del Año 2025! 🦋 Con el 47,9% de los votos, Hipparchia bacchus, se ha convertido en la clara ganadora. Esta especie, vinculada a los viñedos de El Hierro, tiene una distribución muy reducida, limitada a solo 5 km² en La Frontera. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TDm...

Wonderful sunset in Tenerife

Brilliant BBC animated report by ecologist David Goulson on the vital role of insects in our ecosystems and the real threats of declining populations

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/5 A unique form of magnetic sense among insects When desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus) leave the nest in search of food, they walk in a zigzag pattern and return in a perfectly straight line. (paper) https://buff.ly/49zEzyn (blog) https://buff.ly/4g9bNae

Ivy bee, Colletes hederae. The feathery hairs on the abdomen of the ivy sand bee can be clearly seen here. This species was described in 1993 by Westrich and Schmidt. #hymenoptera #ivy #ivybee #sandbiene #efeusandbiene #colleteshederae #feathers #entomology

El problema de la introducción de otras razas apícolas en Canarias y la hibridación con la abeja negra canaria www.eldiario.es/canariasahor...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jloureiro13.bsky.social 😍

Los apicultores denuncian al Cabildo de El Hierro por delito ambiental www.eldiario.es/1_b48695?utm...

Updated yearly zonal mean temperature anomalies since 1900 (by latitude) - regional trends, greater year-to-year variability in the N. Hemisphere, & pronounced #Arctic warming Note: uncertainties in Southern Ocean data & latitude is not scaled by distance. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

New paper investigating the impact of migratory #beekeeping on native bees. We found that honey bees reduced native bee abundance but when moved the diversity of native bees increased compared to areas where honey bees were never present @entsocamerica.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...