🐝 World Bee Day is here!
We are sharing the very first Butterfly newsletter: butterfly-europe.eu/news/newslet...
Stories from Living Labs, AI for pollinators, soil-dependent pollinators, a message from a solitary bee, and more.
We invite you to read, share and join us on the Butterfly journey🐛🦋
You are warmly invited to join me in pursuing a PhD. If you are interested, please get in touch before the application process begins. We can then arrange an initial interview and start preparing for the exam.
Details: science.phd.uj.edu.pl/pl_PL/join/b...
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Can we protect crops and pollinators at the same time?
A new Butterfly project report offers a practical answer: smarter pesticide choices⬇️
📄 butterfly-europe.eu/deliverable-...
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Michał Filipiak
Queen #bumblebees can survive & breathe underwater for days. Read about how Sabrina Rondeau happened upon this phenomenon & her recent findings (with Charles-Antoine Darveau) revealing the physiology explaining how queens are able to survive submerged in @theconversation.com: doi.org/10.64628/AAM...
The key result: suppressing insects with bifenthrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, suppresses plant diversity.
Unfortunately, with this poison there are knock-on effects to the animal's evolutionary sister group: fungi.
So if 10 years of insecticide is also killing beneficial fungi...
New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We're looking for records of ground nesting bees around Europe! Can you help? Follow the simple steps below! @aicbrn.bsky.social @esai-irl.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
Podczas wiosennych porządków w hodowli pszczół @ioes-ju.bsky.social w domku dla murarki ogrodowej znaleźliśmy… ptasie gniazdo! 🪹 Budki dla owadów mogą być domem nie tylko dla dzikich 🐝, ale też dla 🐞🕷️🪲, a nawet 🐦. Przyroda naprawdę nie lubi pustki. #DzikiePszczoły #PtasieGniazdo
What China’s mountain meadows and forests can teach us about #pollinators.
In a newly published paper led by Dr Xin Xu, we have studied pollination networks on Yulong Snow Mountain in Yunnan. Discover more about our findings here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/03/26/w...
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With spring arriving, it's tempting to begin working on our yards and gardens. But hold on! 🐝
Clearing debris & trimming plants too soon can actually harm bees, butterflies, & other important pollinators. We've curated a list of questions to tell when the time is right ⤵️
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PhD opportunity in ecology, biogeochemistry & evolutionary biology.
I am looking for a PhD candidate to join a research project on how animals cope with nutritionally imbalanced food and how this shapes matter cycling in ecosystems.
Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...
For several years now I have been fortunate to collaborate with colleagues in China on the ecology of plant–pollinator interactions. One of the things that makes that work so exciting is the sheer …
jeffollerton.co.uk
Early spring garden cleanup can disrupt critical invertebrate habitat and leave pollinators out in the cold. Our guidelines will help you determine when cleaning up won't bug the pollinators in your…
Russell et al. Insect herbivores increase plant species richness in a long‐term grassland experiment besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Zuzanna Filipiak
Dara Stanley
Michał Filipiak
Mike Kaspari
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Join a new citizen science project and help us to uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting #bees - please share with your networks:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/h...
Reducing insect herbivores (↓IN) lowered plant species richness in a 12-year experiment in restored tallgrass prairie. This effect developed slowly, first appearing in year 5 and persisting after yea...
When most people think about pollinators, they picture bees visiting flowers. But for many species, a large part of life happens elsewhere: in the soil. Many pollinators do not just feed above grou…
