Mirella Miettinen

🦋 Amid the growing controversy over pesticide-heavy lily farming in the Netherlands, @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social sat down with @dvhn.nl for an in-depth interview. The conversation goes far beyond lilies – touching on wider environmental issues 🐛

👉 butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...

(1/2) Offcontinental locations 2/3: 📍Curaçao.
We will be teaming up with Carmabi.

Very little research has been done on pollinators in this region, so this is a great chance for us to gather valuable data and learn more about the diversity and importance of pollinators.

On mielenkiintoista seurata, millaisia havaintoja partnerit @butterfly-project.bsky.social hankkeessamme tekevät kaukaisimmilta tutkimuskohteiltamme, kuten Grönlannista. Mikä on pölyttäjien arvo yhteiskunnalle siellä? Ja mitkä lajit ovat tärkeimpiä pölyttäjiä?

(1/2) #LivingLabs focus on 📍 Southern Norway!

In Landøy, abandoned coastal heathlands are being restored after decades of neglect following the 1960s fisheries collapse. Restoration supports pollinators, carbon storage, and cultural heritage.

#ButterflyEUProject #PollinatorsMatter #SouthernNorway

♻️ A circular economy isn’t always a safe one.

New and #opanaccess: Joonas Alaranta & @mimiet.bsky.social examine how REACH & socio-economic analysis handle hazardous substances in recycled materials and how the SSbD framework could offer a more sustainable path.

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...

This perspective "How pollinator decline could disrupt supply chains" is an important and refreshing, and also requires close communication with various stakeholders in the supply chains included in the @butterfly-project.bsky.social project. #biodiversity #environment #chemicals @cceel.bsky.social

Voiko energiapajun kasvatus hyödyttää myös pölyttäjiä? Yksi Butterfly-hankkeemme #LivingLabs tutkii bioenergian toimitusketjua pölyttäjäpalveluiden näkökulmasta. #biodiversiteetti #pölyttäjäkriisi #energiantuotanto

Warning over 'dirty secret' of toxic chemicals on farmers fields Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ystävämme saivat negatiivista palautetta, kun eivät leikkaa nurmikkoa lyhyeksi, vaan hoitavat pihaa luontoystävällisesti, suosien kotoisia villikukkia, pörriäisiä, perhosia ja muita pölyttäjiä.
Teimme heille kyltin, jossa luonnonmukaisen pihanhoidon perusteluja. #pölyttäjät @naattinet.bsky.social

Pohditko mikä siemenseos olisi paras pölyttäjien kannalta puutarhaasi tänä kesänä? Tutkittua tietoa löytyy tästä tuoreesta julkaisusta.

#LivingLabs focus on 📍 Zeeland (Netherlands)

Farmers in Zeeland grow a variety of crops: onions, wheat, legumes, sugar beets, and flax! Flax has been grown for textile production since the Middle Ages. Now, flax fibers are exported, and rest products are processed into building materials🏘️ (1/2)

🌍 We are taking you on a journey across our diverse research sites! First stop: 📍 #LivingLabs – #Murcia @pdelarua.bsky.social

🌸 Did you know 38% of organic crops in Murcia are almond trees? These trees support rural life & heritage—but rising demand brings challenges (1/2).

By the time I travelled, summer had finally arrived in our yard, the first cherry tree was blooming! The temperature has also risen, which the bumblebees, who have been shivering in the cold until now, are also enjoying. 🐝🌤️

YouTube video by Tiedekulma Pörriäisilta – Mitä Suomen pölyttäjille kuuluu?

Mitä uusin tutkimustieto kertoo Suomen pölyttäjistä? Mitä kimalaisten elämästä ja älykkyydestä tiedetään? 🐝🌻

Sukella kukkien ja pölyttäjien maailmaan tutkijoiden kanssa!

🌷🐝 Ylen luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön jututettavina ovat hyönteisasiantuntijat Juho Paukkunen, Pasi Sihvonen ja Olli Loukola.

Bee declines affect more than just farmers – the entire food industry needs to step up - Connecting Research

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...

Butterfly #HorizonEU project. We aim to enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline. Here's a little bit of background about us...

Seuraa työtämme @butterfly-project.bsky.social, butterfly-europe.eu, www.youtube.com/@Butterfly-H....

Butterfly-hankkeessa lisäämme tietoisuutta pölyttäjien merkityksestä. Tieteellisen tutkimuksen ohella teemme aktiivista yhteistyötä viljelijöiden, poliittisten päättäjien, paikallisyhteisöjen ja kuluttajien kanssa. Rakenna kanssamme kestävämpää tulevaisuutta! @luonnonsuojelu.bsky.social

Unfortunately, pollinators are disappearing at an alarming rate. In @butterfly-project.bsky.social, we aim to understand how to counter this troubling trend. We work to raise awareness about the critical role of pollinators in sustaining our natural, economic, and social systems.

Pollinators are a vital part of nature. Core ecological processes depend on the interactions between plants and pollinators. These relationships form the foundation of resilient ecosystems and affect global food security, human health, economic vitality, social and political stability.

World Bee Day | United Nations The Day aims to raise awareness on the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development.

Today, on #WorldBeeDay I want to challenge everyone to leave half their garden to pollinators this summer! www.un.org/en/observanc... @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @uniuef.bsky.social

Have we passed “peak honey bee” in Britain? An update of hive numbers for World Bee Day 2025 Since publishing what I believe are the most comprehensive data on the number of honey bee hives in Britain in my book Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society, I’ve posted occasiona…

Have we passed “peak honey bee” in Britain?

I’ve posted occasional updates on hive numbers on my blog, but the last of these was in 2022. It feels like it’s time for another - on #WorldBeeDay2025!

Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/05/20/h...

#bees #pollinators #biodiversity #FAO #ecology

Sinulla on perhosvaikutus Pölyttäjien katoaminen voi kertautua katastrofeiksi, mutta sama pätee hyvän kertautumiseen.

Puolet pihasta pölyttäjille! Tähän kannustan tänä kesänä kaikkia suomalaisia. www.sll.fi/luonnonsuoje... @butterfly-project.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social

We make the Future -sarjakuvalehden kansikuvaprintti aseteltuna voimapaperin päälle. Kansikuvassa on katunäkymä ja useita ihmisiä sateenvarjoineen. Aurinko pilkistää sadepilvien takaa, lokit lentävät taivaalla. Etualalla yksi hahmoista ojentaa toiselle kasvin, jossa näkyvissä kaksi sirkkalehteä.

Tämmöstä ilmastosarjakuvaa tuli ulos. Ja se on pdf:nä ihan ilmaiseksi luettavissa/kuunneltavissa. 👉

lauda.ulapland.fi/handle/10024...

Projekti oli mittava monivuotinen urakka ja meikäläinenkin sai kunnolla sykkiä. Antoisaa, kiinnostavaa, toivoa herättävää. Iso kiitos, @koneensaatio.fi ! 🙌✨

Project ‘Butterfly’ takes flight in Paris! At the end of last week I joined researchers from across Europe and beyond who gathered at Norway House on the campus of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, for the official launch of t…

🤯We kicked off this exciting project with a rendezvous last week, and it was great! 💗

Our incredible @jeffollerton.bsky.social has shared his thoughts on the meeting on his blog. 🦋Check it out:

🐝 🦋 🪰 🧬 Hosting Opportunity for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 -… | Pilar De la Rúa 🐝 🦋 🪰 🧬 Hosting Opportunity for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 - Pollinators Conservation + Omics approaches in Universidad de Murcia, Spain. If you hold a PhD (max 8 years’ experience) and meet M...

🐝 🦋 🪰 🧬 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:
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Unaffordable - The absurd cost of ‘PFAS as usual’ Almost every PFAS molecule ever synthesised is still out there. Some do break down – but into new PFAS.

The costs of PFAS remediation: The more #PFAS are used and spread, the more the #health and #remediation costs. We conducted remediation cost estimates for soil, water, sludge and leachate for the EU27 countries, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the UK:

foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/the...

Pollinators are disappearing – how will this affect our society? The University of Eastern Finland Law School is involved in an EU project investigating how society can anticipate and prepare for the threats posed by pollinator decline.

There is snow on the ground and Christmas is coming, but with our new EU project, I remind you of the importance of pollinators to our society. I look forward to working with this top team led by @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social on an important issue! www.uef.fi/en/article/p...

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