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Collaborative Network for the Evaluation, Conservation and Valuing of #Pollinators and #Pollination
First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
29.12.2025 16:28 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
[1/3] We’re closing out the year with THREE new tools for pollinator identification. 1) Bee image database: Explore over 8,000 macro images covering more than 2,000 European Wild Bee species. Search by family, genus, or country to see diagnostic features in vivid detail 🐝 pollinatoracademy.eu/images
22.12.2025 10:45 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
26.11.2025 22:18 — 👍 999 🔁 204 💬 13 📌 13
A Comissão Europeia aprovou o EU-PoMS, o novo esquema que harmoniza a monitorização de polinizadores na UE. O primeiro período abrange 2027 a 2030. A proposta de PT-PoMS desenvolvida no PolinizAÇÃO e entregue ao ICNF está alinhada com o Ato Delegado aprovado. 🐝💛
📃 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
🐝 Pollinators are worth billions. A new study from the FLOWer Lab shows they secure over €2B/year for PT agriculture, with €1.1B coming from wild pollinators. Protecting them is essential for our food, economy and future.
Read it: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
News: www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...
🐝 Os polinizadores valem milhões... Um novo estudo do FLOWer Lab revela que garantem mais de 2 mil milhões de €/ano à agricultura PT, sendo 1,1 mil milhões assegurados por polinizadores selvagens. Protegê-los é vital para a nossa alimentação, economia e futuro.
Notícia: www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...
O suspense acabou… 🤭 Já podemos revelar a data e o programa de inauguração da nova exposição do #PavilhaodoConhecimento: “SUPERBICHOS! Incríveis por Natureza”.
📢 Marquem na agenda: 24 de outubro, sexta-feira, a partir das 18.30. Entrada livre.
Programa: www.pavconhecimento.pt/exposicoes/s...
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04.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The Dutch Grassland Butterfly indicator (www.clo.nl/indicatoren/...) shows a decline of more than 70%. It will be hard to achieve an increasing trend in 2030, as required in art 11 in the Nature Restoration Regulation (eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...).
24.04.2025 06:19 — 👍 98 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 5
How to create a #nature-literate society.
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Revaluing naturalists' skills is essential for a future where we work with, not against, nature.
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Ontem foi um dia muito bonito! Obrigado a todos os envolvidos!
Visitem a exposição Pequenos Gigantes - Guardiões da Biodiversidade para ficarem a conhecer melhor alguns da diversidade de polinizadores que podem encontrar em Portugal através do olho e da lente do Albano Soares!
🌿 New publication with FLOWer Lab’s contribution!
With Sílvia Castro, led by Catarina Gomes from Madeira Botanical Group, this study on Musschia wollastonii reveals its mixed reproductive system—self-pollination and insect pollinators, mostly hoverflies and butterflies. Many act as pollen robbers!
🐝 New publication!
The chapter "Taxonomy of European Apoidea: Anthophila", by Hugo Gaspar (FLOWer Lab) & Simone Flaminio (Univ. of Mons), provides a practical guide to bee diversity & identification in Europe.
📖 Part of "Hidden and Wild: An Integrated Study of European Wild Bees". Read it 👇
Photo showing a walking path with a sandy/clay hillside on the left in an urban park
Male Andrena cineraria resting on a sandy mossy surface.
Not one but three Andrena cineraria nesting aggregations spotted today. They love these south facing walls. (Also, it was ~20C today 😵💫)
19.02.2025 17:01 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Bubble diagram with the 21 ideas organized according to their typology. For more information see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953472
Could ChatGPT help us to protect #biodiversity? An international panel of experts has come up with 21 ideas where #AI could revolutionize biodiversity conservation 🤖🐛
19.02.2025 11:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
It's a match! Six-spot Burnet moth and Common Bird's-foot Trefoil have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Merveille du Jour and Oak have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Humming-bird Hawk-moth and Bedstraw have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Elephant Hawk-moth and Fuchsia have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
You complete my life-cycle 💕
One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants.
#MoonMeadows #MothsMatter
Sílvia Castro, co-PI of FLOWer Lab, participated yesterday in the round table organised by the Biology students association on the role of women in science, during the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🔬
#internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience
🐝 New data on Portugal’s bees!
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra holds the largest historical bee collection in Portugal.
A new study by the FLOWer Lab reveals 13,374 records, 11,053 unpublished until now, covering 464 species, incl. 11 new to Portugal!
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
Four people participating in a workshop writing on sticky notes.
Group photo of the PolinizAÇÃO project team in an outdoor patio with a tree in the background.
Bingo sheet about pollinators.
🎉Congratulations! The PolinizAÇÃO project wraps up its 7 participatory workshops, paving the way for an Action Plan to protect #pollinators in Portugal! A great collaboration between citizens & institutions. We’re proud to be part of it! Here's how it happened! 🐝🌿 @pollinet.bsky.social
10.02.2025 11:45 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
🌿 @jloureiro13.bsky.social was one of the speakers at dcv.talks this week! He presented "Through the citizens’ lenses: Plant-Pollinator Interactions on iNaturalist", showcasing how citizen science helps unveil plant-pollinator interactions. This initiative was launched by the PolinizAÇÃO project 🐝📸
05.02.2025 14:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡
Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination!
📖 Read it 👇
[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!
🌿 Sílvia Castro was Feb’s speaker of Sociedade Broteriana Talks! Sílvia Castro presented “Nothing is permanent except change: O. pes-caprae on the Mediterranean Basin”. She shared progress from COST ConservePlants initiative studying floral morphotypes & ploidy levels of invasive Bermuda buttercup.
30.01.2025 11:53 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📚🐝 Descobre o novo livro sobre as abelhas de Portugal!
Foi publicado pela Imprensa da UC o livro “Chaves Dicotómicas dos Géneros de Abelhas de Portugal. Hymenoptera: Anthophila”!
Coordenado por Hugo Gaspar do @flowerlab.bsky.social descarreguem esta obra aqui: monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...
Our hoverflies have a new home! 🗄️🪰
As part of the #ARCADE project (tettris.eu/3rd-party-pr...), a 3PP of the @tettris.eu, we are transferring the hoverflies from the FLOWer Lab entomological collection to the new entomological boxes and cabinets!
#nameittosaveit #tettriseu #arcade
No passado dia 14 de janeiro, decorreu o 4º workshop participativo do PolinizAÇÃO, dedicado às Práticas de Gestão em Áreas Produtivas e Classificadas no Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
Foi uma manhã repleta de partilha de ideias, construção de soluções e um forte compromisso com a biodiversidade!
