🇪🇺These projects help establish open access to collections data, design and test novel AI and molecular tools, test training frameworks, and involve citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity hotspots. This community-based perspective is fundamental to the entire ethos of TETTRIs. #Taxonomy 🧵👇

Last week, some #INCSTEP members participated in the XXI Iberian Entomology Congress. The focus this year was on #pollinators! 🪰🐝🦋 Our initiative presented two virtual posters and two oral contributions! 🎓 #NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU

The INC-STEP final meeting is over! It has been a very productive day, and we are very satisfied with the results. We leave with the hope of continuing to collaborate 🤝🏻 and making this pilot project something even bigger 🔝. Result: Success! ✅ @tettris.eu @museuciencies.cat

Today we held the final INC-STEP @tettris.eu meeting at @museuciencies.cat! 🗣️ To kick off the meeting, we had an opening talk by @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social, who gave us an overview of the project.

Hey! How are you coping with the post-holiday blues? We're ready for anything! 🏁 Take a look at @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social contribution to #Ento25 in Glasgow. It's another chance to show off our progress on the #INCSTEP reference collection! #NameItToSaveIt 🐝🪰🦋

Take a look to what @incstep.bsky.social did yesterday in the workshop held in #Madrid !! 👇👀 It was focus in #pollinators conservation to foster coneections and raise awareness of #TETTRIsEU and #INCSTEP 🐝 #taxonomy #biodiversity

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!

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!

📷 Chupaleches (Iphiclides feisthamelii)

🚨'Pollinators: Towards a National Network for Their Management' Next week, #INCSTEP is organising the first meeting of pollinator reference collections, aimed to build connections between national entities related with #pollinator conservation! 🎉 #NameItToSaveIt 🦋🐝🪰

Last buzz! Don't miss our last brief report! 🚨 It's the time of the genus #Colletes 🐝 #NameItToSaveIt @tettris.eu First, take a look at the presentation post about this genus, and then take a look at our infographics! ⤵️ x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

Today we bring you the last concept in our #TaxonomicBites series: Georeferencing 🌍🛰️! The most vital data for specimens in NHCs are the PLACE (where) and YEAR (when) of collection. These provide us with spatial and temporal distribution information needed for biodiversity studies!

It's time for our bumblebees! 🐝 The #Bombus genus is charismatic yet under threat, so taxonomic support is vital! #NameItToSaveIt Take a look at our brief report below 📊, as well as the presentation we created for this group some time ago. ⤵️ x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

Let's introduce another key concept to our #TaxonomicBites series! Today: #Digitization! 💻 The information contained in NHCs has remained hidden from the general public for decades. But thanks to communications technology, collection data can now be shared worldwide 🌍🔄! @tettris.eu

Come and check out this week's summary about another of our #INCSTEP #TETRIsEU focal taxa: the fly subfamily Eristalinae! 🪰🌻 Find out more about these fascinating pollinators in our previous Twitter post: x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

This week, we present another edition of our #TaxonomicBites series. This time: type material! Among the samples #NHCs hold, type specimens stand out for their important role: setting the base for species delimitation. 🧩 They are usually highlighted with red labels! 🔴🏷️

🐝 Ya está disponible el Curso de Formación Permanente sobre Abejas Polinizadoras que hemos organizado desde el GTC Biodiversidad Agrícola y Urbana @usal, en el marco del Proyecto #Asilvestra. 📅 30 junio y 1 julio 🧑‍🦰 Plazas limitadas 💻 Inscripciones: eventum.usal.es/136191/detail/…

Here's another look at our preliminary results! 🚨 This time, we're looking at a butterfly family that is more taxonomically challenging: the #Hesperiidae family! 🦋 Are you ready for the big numbers? 📊 #INCSTEP In case you don't know them ℹ️⤵️ x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

Reference collections are key to present and future science (learn more reading our previous post 👇), but none of them would be possible without the taxonomic experts behind them. Let’s meet their work in this new post of #TaxonomicBites! 👩‍💻🦋🐝 bsky.app/profile/incs...

Estamos afrontando una crisis mundial de taxónomos. Cada vez hay menos expertos en clasificar e identificar nuevas especies, y muchos de los que quedan están cerca de jubilarse. Sigue leyendo para entender por qué esta crisis pone en riesgo la biodiversidad. #taxonomy #taxonomia 🌍

Today marks the 318th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus's birth 🎂, and to celebrate, we present our favourite species: Eumerus petrarum! 🎉🔝 🪰This recently described hoverfly species (subfamily Eristalinae) likes to bask on rocky outcrops — hence its Latin name! #NameItToSaveIt

More preliminary results of our Task 1. Taxonomic review and validation of #INCSTEP focal taxa holdings! It is the turn of the #Papilionidae family! 🦋📢 (check our previous post in the link below). We also have a new infographics about this group! 📊 x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

1) Hoy se celebra el #DiamundialdelasAbejas ... esas abejas melíferas que son "el ser vivo más importante" porque son "las polinizadoras" de las plantas, ... esas abejas "en peligro de extinción" que, si desaparecieran, "a los humanos nos quedarían 4 años de vida". ¿Y SI TODO ESO FUERA FALSO? 😜🤓

During last months, you’ve probably heard about #INCSTEP pollinator reference collection… 🐝 But, do you know what a Reference Collection (RC) is? 🤔 Today we kick off a series of knowledge capsules to unpack this and other key concepts in taxonomy! #TaxonomicBites 📚

🌍 #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day – May 23! 🌿 Let’s celebrate the vital role of #taxonomy in protecting #biodiversity on Earth! 📸 Snap a photo of your favourite animal, plant, or mineral 🔤 Identify it with its taxonomic name (we’re happy to help!) 📱 Share it on social media using #NameItToSaveIt

Exciting news! 📢🆕 After all the hard work, we can finally report some preliminary but promising results from the #INCSTEP reference collection! Starting today, we will be revealing some of them over the next few weeks. Let's get started with #Xylocopa! 📡🐝 #NameItToSaveIt

¿Quién dijo que en Europa estaba todo descubierto? 📄 ¡Nuevo artículo recién salido del horno! 🐝 Se describen 9 nuevas especies de abejas de la familia Megachilidae para Europa, 5 de las cuales presentes España 😮 👀 Enlace al artículo, para l@s más interesad@s: mapress.com/zt/article/v...

⚠️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.

Las moscas florícolas (Syrphidae) son insectos altamente beneficiosos: mientras que los adultos polinizan, sus larvas contribuyen al reciclaje de la materia orgánica 🍂 o al control de plagas agrícolas. Os dejo aquí una lámina genial con las especies del género Eristalis de la península ibérica 😉👇

Our colleagues from @mncn-csic.bsky.social are in Wageningen (Netherlands) 🇳🇱, presenting the #INCSTEP project to the lepidopterist community! Marina González (poster) and Robert J. Wilson (oral presentation) spreading the word about the importance of NHCs and taxonomy! #NameItToSaveIt 🦋💪

It's published! The largest research work I've ever undertaken: Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz 1/x

Sadly, we say goodbye to this short survey section today, but in good company! 🙌🏻 Piluca Álvarez turned her passion for insects into a career, becoming a renowned fly and bee taxonomist in the Iberian context! 🪰🐝

¿Cómo podemos aprender a identificar una especie que no hemos visto nunca? Tener una colección bien conservada e identificada que poder consultar es clave. Hemos podido ver en el stand del @mncn-csic.bsky.social en la #MadridEsCiencia algunas colecciones con las que trabajan @incstep.bsky.social

Once again the #INCSTEP @mncn-csic.bsky.social team representing the Natural History Collections! 🏛️🎉 This time at the XIV Feria de Ciencias de Madrid, with many surprised faces to get to know part of our pollinator entomodiversity! #MadridEsCiencia 🪰🐝🦋

We have a new interview fresh out of the oven. Let's meet Lorena León! I: What is/has been your connection with natural history collections? LL: "Summer '24 I had the opportunity to see how work is done in an entomological collection during my internship at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social" @tettris.eu

Today we have the pleasure to chat with Helena Barril! 🗣️ She is a biologist and research technician specialised in hymenopteran identification and pollination ecology. At #INCSTEP she has been one of the people in charge of identifying Bombus and Xylocopa specimens! 🐝

👋 Say hello to this week’s #WildPoshSpecies: Eristalinus aeneus! Also known as the common lagoon fly, this species of syrphid fly is fairly common throughout the United States and Europe. Explore all species on our website: buff.ly/6b5jOWf #WildPosh #ProtectThePollinators

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!

The fourth (and final) day of the bee identification course is about to start! 🐝 Last but not least, the family Megachilidae! In contrast to other bees, the members of this family have their pollen-carrying structure (scopa) restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen 😯. #KnowYourBees

Third day of the bee training course, here we go! 🐝 Oscar is now presenting the Andrenidae family, and Alejandro (@alexnunez23.bsky.social) will follow with Colletidae. Did you know that the genus Andrena encompasses more than 1,300 species worldwide? 🌍 #KnowYourBees #NameItToSaveIt @tettris.eu

Good morning! Let's start with the second day of the bee course held at the Jardí Botànic de Barcelona @museuciencies.cat 🐝🐝🐝 #KnowYourBees #BeeCourseBarcelona @tettris.eu

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

¡Profes! Este material os interesa 👀 ¿Queréis hablar de abejas silvestres y polinización en clase? Entonces no dejéis pasar este magnífico dosier de la expo "Más que abejas" del @museuciencies.cat 💚🐝 Para descargarlo o solicitar la expo en vuestro centro 👇🏻 museuciencies.cat/es/visitanos...

1/4 🦋🔬 Project Psyche visits the Entomological Collection at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Our team explored this invaluable resource, where thousands of butterfly and moth specimens help us bridge the past, present, and future of biodiversity research 🌍🧬 #TaxonomyMatters

Who is behind #INCSTEP's reference collection? Let's meet Óscar Aguado, an agricultural and forestry technician with a long experience in entomological studies, especially on taxonomy and conservation of pollinating and saproxylic insects. @tettris.eu @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org

Come and see the piece of the month at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social! You can meet some representatives of our focal taxa at the entrance of the museum! This outreach box illustrates the diversity of Iberian pollinators covered by #INCSTEP! 🐝🦋🪰 Want to know more? www.mncn.csic.es/es/visita-el...

👋 Hello, BlueSky! We are delighted to join the platform with a proper introduction. 🇪🇺 The WildPosh Project, a.k.a. Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of chemical stressors on the health of #WildPollinators, is an EU Horizon project. Learn more about us in our two-pager below 👇

Hey! You know what? ‼️ Today the ‘IX Trobada de Tècniques i Tècnics de Col.leccions de Ciències Naturals de Catalunya’ has been held in the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social, where our colleague @entomodaily.bsky.social has informed about the #INCSTEP project. 🐝🦋🪰 This kind of exchanges are essential!

Once again we meet the people behind #INCSTEP! Today is the time of Marina González, a young biologist and MS in zoology associated to the entomological collection of the MNCN-CSIC 🏛️ in Madrid. Her work is mainly focused on the Hesperiidae family! 🦋

Today we meet Leopoldo Castro! 🐝 He is a former secondary school teacher, expert in several Hymenoptera taxa (e.g. Bombinae, Eumeninae), focused on faunistic, geographical and taxonomic studies 👨🏻‍🏫🏫 His main task for #INCSTEP is the revision of #Bombus specimens! 🔬