Katherine Baldock

Great to see! Have a great conference and wish I could be there 😀 Hola from Amazonas, Perú

The Spirit of the Rainforest The Spirit of the Rainforest

Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.

📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle

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‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect Prof Dave Goulson is one of the world’s foremost experts on insects. But there’s a special place in his heart for hoverflies, one of the prettiest flies around. Here he explains why we should nominate hoverflies as invertebrate of the year

‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect

Pollinators most vulnerable to rising global temperatures are flies, study shows | Penn State University Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth’s most prolific pollinators — and new research led by Penn State scientists suggests they are increasing...

Fly pollinators are even more vulnerable to rising global temperatures than bees.

🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security."

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This is bound to be fascinating. Such an important topic 👇

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And am highly in favour of the 🦋 symbol

Seeing as #BES2024 has highlighted everyone now seems to be on @bsky.app thought it was about time to hop over... Plus my "Twittter" account has been somewhat neglected of late 😁

Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...

[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...