RestPoll

In September 2025, the Cambridge RestPoll team attended the Buzzing for Recovery workshop in Bristol. The event brought together landowners, organisations, volunteers, conservationists and researchers from across the UK, all working to conserve the shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum).

YouTube video by Deep Seed Does Regenerative Agriculture Actually Work?

Most interesting voice and facts by Lynn Dicks about insects and regenerative agriculture 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZRT...

Listen to the strong voice of our @RestPoll researcher from Cambridge

#BSC launches its first podcast series within the #PREMIERE project! 🎉
The podcast format creates space to explore not only what works, but why it matters, preparing #multi-actor project proposals.
🎙️Listen to the podcast: lnkd.in/d3tNczgf
🔗Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/dEg4saTe

#MAA | #EUProjects

YouTube video by VALOR Project #VALORpartners: University of Reading

We're launching a new SM campaign, highlighting #VALORpartners, their expertise and contributions.

Our first video features Univerisity of Reading (@uniofreading.bsky.social), presented by #VALOR coordinator Tom Breeze.

youtu.be/WUR5f1oY0DU

Any guesses which partner we’ll feature next? 👀

YouTube video by VALOR Project #VALORpartners: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

How does Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences contribute to #VALOR?

Our latest #VALORpartners video highlights their expertise and role in the project.

📽️ youtu.be/8_Vk83YElK0?...

YouTube video by VALOR Project #VALORpartners: Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Dive into #VALORpartners with Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

In this short video, @naturealexk.bsky.social explains their unique role and expertise within the project.

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdO...

#HorizonEurope

Interested in protecting Europe's wild #pollinators?

Safeguard project offers new datasets, tools and policy-relevant insights on pollinator trends, key pressures and effective interventions.

Register for their final events ⬇️

📣 VALOR and FarmBioNet have joined forces to work toward shared goals!

Learn more about this collaboration and what it brings: farmbionet.eu/new-collabor...

#HorizonEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Biodiversity #NationalNetworks #BiodiversityNationalNetworks #BiodiversityFarming

Ugo Diniz and Claus Rasmussen standing in front of a large amount of blue vane traps

Ugo Diniz and Claus Rasmussen @apids.bsky.social preparing the distribution of vane traps at our @butterfly-project.bsky.social Consortium Meeting in Aaarhus, for the upcoming field work in Butterfly's network of #pollinator living labs

A large batch wildflower seed bombs ready to go out to support the pollinators 🫡

#gardening #seedbombs #leafcrafters

The always-helpful Hover Fly.

#hoverfly #macromonday #newzealand #queenstown #flowers #bloomscrolling #blooms #pollinators #insects #photography #photooftheday #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #bugs #nature #yellowthu #coloraday

What a year! 🎉

From ideas to impact—thank you to our amazing team and partners for making it happen.

👀Looking back at a year we’re proud of.

#RestPoll #yearinreview #pollination #HappyNewYear #pollinators🐝 #beehappy #ecology

📢 New Publication!
We are excited to share that the RestPoll proposal has been officially published in @riojournal.com and is available online! 🎉
Discover the project's visions, goals, and what it promises for pollinator research and conservation 🐝
👉 Read it here: riojournal.com/articles.php...

Dangling from her mandibles by a blade of grass.

Best of 2025 count down: #12

Female Two-spotted longhorn bee
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

explored a vacant lot by the sea between 2 homes in Cape Coral, overcast & rainy, startled a burrowing owl, & found a familiar subject.

#EastCoastKin #macroPhotography #macro #photography #pollinators #bees #art

Patterns of change in floral color and odor of Lonicera calcarata are in relation to pollinator behavior Lonicera calcarata flowers change from white through yellow to orange-red. Pollinators favor prechange flowers, guided by color cues. Floral odor mainly comprised fatty acids, monoterpenes, and peake...

Wang et al. explore the complex interplay between pollinators and #flower features like scent and color, and the impact of this interaction on #plant reproductive success and #herbivory.

doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#PlantScience #EcoEvo #evolution #BugSky

Published!📖

Indirect plant-plant interactions via shared pollinators are widespread and shaped by both neutral and niche processes—boosting network stability and supporting biodiversity in alpine ecosystems🌲 🐝 🏔️

Read here:https://buff.ly/KUWAwX7

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌷🌿🌻🐝 Flowers in winter important on cool but sunny days. Rosemary flowers (Salvia rosmarinus) with nectar & pollen for buff-tailed bumblebee queen Bombus terrestris. Egg-laying & caring for larvae. Important commercial pollinators in glass house crops.
#BUC2026 #plants #loveplants #bees

Graphic resembling a rebus puzzle. On the left is a yellow Uno ‘reverse’ card labeled ‘REVERSE.’ In the center are several pollinators—including a bat, butterfly, wasp, bumblebee, and monarch butterfly—labeled ‘POLLINATOR.’ On the right is a red downward-zigzag arrow labeled ‘DECLINE.’ In the bottom-right corner is the flag of the European Union. The full message reads: ‘Reverse pollinator decline.’

80% of our food crops and wild flowering plants depend on pollination.

Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.

Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.

More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ

Generalized plant–pollinator phenological climate‐driven advances still lead to a decline in phenological overlap Climate change is altering the phenology of interacting species, potentially leading to mismatches in the timing of their interactions. This may affect the delivery of key ecosystem services such as ...

My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉
With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social
How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches?
Find out here👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Cocoa depends on tiny, often overlooked insects—many of which we don’t really like! See this pic of a great new study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Isabelle Merle & Fabrice Requier

Small green, yellow and black bee central top of photo atop orange-yellow flower surrounded by long, thin lavender petals in the foreground, and background.

Male bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

on New England aster flower
(Aster novae-angliae)
10-2-25 in Chicago

#ColorADay #GreenSat #BlueSkyArtShow #small #eastcoastkin #bugsky #native #bees #pollinators #flowers #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #chicago #insects #art

Eyes to eyes with a bee nectaring a yellow flower with a light green stem

Female Say's Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee
(Coelioxys sayi)
on camphorweed

#stunDay Sunday part II

#eastcoastkin #bees #pollinators #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography

🪰🌺Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources

vist.ly/4ap62

#CanopyOpenness #ClimateChange #ClimaticRefugia #ConvolutionalNeuralNetwork #DeepLearning #Diptera #ForestComposition #PollinatorConservation #YOLOv5

Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis): 12mm (0.47in).This is a species of mason bee, and is known as the red mason bee due to its covering of dense gingery hair. Amazing photo taken by Laura Corkindale of a Mason bee female laying eggs and filling the cavity with food in Hampshire, UK 🐝 #redmasonbee #bee

Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by EU funds Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) says 747 projects have been selected under the nation’s first agrivoltaic program, backed by €1.7 billion ($1.9 billion) from European re...

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy
Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep.
Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds.
#agsky #energysky
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

Pollinators and politics in China Last week I returned from a 14 day visit to China to colleagues at the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan, part of a three-year commitment to working there that I documented on the blog last yea…

Pollinators and politics in China:

jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/14/p...

#China #Bees #Pollinators #Biodiversity

“No mosquitoes, no chocolate.” Cacao is pollinated by mosquitoes, not bees. More insights from TEDxMitte 2025 — keep an eye on our socials!
#TEDxMitte #Biodiversity #Pollination

Masked bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeus spp.) spend a lot of time collecting pollen for their young, like this one on a sulphur cinquefoil (Rosaceae: Potentilla recta). They lack the transport hairs most bees have and carry it in a secondary "honey stomach." Clayton Michigan, 27 Jun 2014.

Masked bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeus spp.) spend a lot of time collecting pollen for their young, like this one on a sulphur cinquefoil (Rosaceae: Potentilla recta). They lack the transport hairs most bees have and carry it in a secondary "honey stomach." Clayton Michigan, 27 Jun 2014.

Masked bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeus spp.) spend a lot of time collecting pollen for their young, like this one on a sulphur cinquefoil (Rosaceae: Potentilla recta). They lack the transport hairs most bees have and carry it in a secondary "honey stomach." Clayton Michigan, 27 Jun 2014.

While photographing a hummingbird feeding on yellow flowers, a bee flew over.

The bird and the bee 💛
#pollinators #bees #hummingbird #birds #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶