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Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛
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Biologist and Ms in Zoology + Applied Ethology 🎓 | Curator assistant in the Entomoly Coll. at MNCN-CSIC 🏛️

Etho-eco-evo 🍃, digitalisation 🖥️, bio-art 🎨 & biodiversity conservation 🤲🏻

Co-comm leader of @incstep.bsky.social. He/him
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An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️

We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯
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Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️

Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6
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Elucidating mutual relationships between bees and plants in biodiversity hotspots is a challenge that requires the joint efforts of ecologists and taxonomists.In this new paper we analyse community-wide relationships between plants and Andrena bees in the Cazorla mountains and describe 3 new species
The genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: community-wide relationships with plants and description of three new species
Evolutionary and ecological factors underlying the extensive, fast diversification of the species-rich bee genus Andrena (Andrenidae Latreille, 1802) are of general interest and require elucidation. P...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Y llegamos al 2º clasificado del concurso #SeEcomandangaPorUnDia, Adrián Sánchez Albert del
@mncn-csic.bsky.social aborda la desigualdad en las ciudades 🏙️ respecto a las zonas verdes 🏞️ y su biodiversidad, zonas clave para nuestro bienestar físico y mental 💆
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La paradoja verde: gentrificación, desigualdad y biodiversidad en la ciudad
Seguimos con la publicación de los cinco posts mejor clasificados en el concurso de divulgación ¡Sé Ecomandanga por un día!. Hoy, tenemos el placer de presentaros al 2º clasificado, Adrián Sánchez …
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November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🔴Detenidas 62 personas por la muerte de más de 600 aves rapaces con veneno y cepos ilegales. Todos encontrados en explotaciones agrícolas, ganaderas, naves de aperos y cotos de caza.

Los que "cuidan" el campo...

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Detenidas 62 personas por la muerte de más de 600 aves rapaces con veneno y cepos ilegales
La investigación ha tenido lugar durante la campaña 'Atrax', que busca combatir estas prácticas y en la que se han realizado más de 500 inspecciones.
www.publico.es
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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La mariposa blanca grande Madeira está oficialmente extinta. Otras 65 especies de mariposas europeas están en peligro de extinción, igual que 172 especies de abejas silvestres.

Y solo va a empeorar si no se detiene el cambio climático, la intensificación del campo y el abuso de pesticidas.
New IUCN Red List data shows worsening trends for Europe’s wild #pollinators: 100 more bee species are now threatened, and the percentage of vulnerable butterfly species is up 76% in a decade.

More at: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/News/ViewNew...
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Proof that climate change is real and horrible:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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El científico del CSIC Emilio Santiago Muiño poniendo a Vox en su sitio ayer en el congreso.
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The INC-STEP final meeting is over!

It has been a very productive day, and we are very satisfied with the results. We leave with the hope of continuing to collaborate 🤝🏻 and making this pilot project something even bigger 🔝.

Result: Success! ✅

@tettris.eu @museuciencies.cat
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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En España se vierten sin depurar las aguas residuales de 9 millones de personas a los ríos y al mar, generando graves problemas ambientales. Es necesario que las administraciones inviertan más en el tratamiento de las aguas residuales, hasta conseguir el 100% de depuración.
October 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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El mapa de la crisis demográfica europea: así sería la Europa sin inmigración que ansía la extrema derecha.

El auge de la extrema derecha en Europa, con sus políticas antiinmigración, puede acelerar el descenso demográfico en Europa, provocando una crisis en la economía
El mapa de la crisis demográfica europea: así sería la Europa sin inmigración que ansía la extrema derecha
El auge de la extrema derecha en Europa, con sus políticas antiinmigración, puede acelerar el descenso demográfico en Europa, provocando una crisis en la economía ante la ralentización del crecimiento...
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September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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🎯¿Cómo ha sido este último año político?

Los partidos suelen tener un discurso, con sus alianzas y estategias, pero..

¿y si nos fijamos en algo empírico, demostrable, sobre cómo y con quién han votado en el Congreso este último año para ver parentescos reales entre las diferentes formaciones?🧶
August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Twenty-four entomological societies, representing nearly 22,000 insect scientists from six continents, agree: "Progress in insect science is shaped not only by the entomologists who study insects but also by the policies and investments of nations."
July 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Starting up! 🙌☀️

Opening words from Domingo Marquina (UCM), Isabel Rey (MNCN-CSIC) and Rafael Zardoya (MNCN-CSIC) 🗣️

The focus is on #pollinator declines 📉 and the importance of collaborative projects like #INCSTEP in addressing them! 🐝🪰🦋

#NHMs and reference collections are key to monitoring them!
July 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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“Lepidoptera Fluminensis” is a forgotten eighteenth-century lepidochromy book on Brazilian moths and butterflies. Researchers present a history of lepidochromy alongside the history of the book.

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“Lepidoptera Fluminensis”, a forgotten eighteenth-century lepidochromy book on Brazilian moths and butterflies
Early Portuguese natural history collections regarded Brazil as one of its main interests, influenced by the kingdom’s political authorities and naturalists’ own fascination. Two unique and almost ide...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Ataque de un macho de abeja Anthidium a otro macho que estaba descansando. Al final parece que intenta clavarle las espinas que tienen estos machos en el culo. No he visto cosa más camorrista entre las abejas que los machos de este género.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Taxonomy is under constant change; species classification is revised continuously, and changes accumulate affecting biodiversity metrics & generating uncertainty that is rarely assessed. Juliana Stropp review how taxonomic changes have changed the observed Amazonian palm richness patterns 👇🧪🌐 #NICED
The impact of taxonomic change on the Amazonian palm flora | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Although taxonomy is an evolving discipline, taxonomic change is rarely accounted for in macroecological studies. By tracking the history of species descriptions and synonymizations of Amazonian palms...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)

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Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring
Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected
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July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Desde el grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET hemos creado un punto de encuentro para las personas que trabajamos con el medio natural y usamos herramientas computacionales - únete a la comunidad respondiendo a este mensaje o contactándome por privado!

go.bsky.app/FWR2yEM

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July 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Attending last week's basic #EPICBEE course in #Seia was a delight! 🇵🇹

Hugo Gaspar, Piluca Álvarez and Albano Soares were all fantastic teachers 🧑🏻‍🏫. I'm looking forward to the intermediate courses! 🎓

Training para-taxonomists to empower EU #taxonomy and tackle the pollinator's crisis! 📉🇪🇺
July 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Mis fotos también gritan #FreePalestine
July 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'I don't want to drown; I want to swim! I want to swim with people; I don't want to swim alone." 🤝

– Ernest Mas, a farmer from Tarragona (Spain), on #degrowth and #regenerative agriculture 🌱 (E2, 14:26).

This series offers a breath of fresh air amid climate pessimism! 🌍
www.rtve.es/play/videos/...
June 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🚨 Methods paper out now!
nhcm.pensoft.net 📄

How can we make #entomology more engaging? Printed insect #3Dmodels can help! 🖨️ 🐜

Here we provide a guide to producing insect replicas to help overcome common issues in entomological #outreach activities! 🧩

Check it out!
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June 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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A Tale of Two Commas.

Right now, the midsummer brood of Comma butterflies is emerging across Britain. Look closely and you may notice that it has two different colour forms: the typical, darker morph (right) and a much brighter, golden morph (left) known as f. hutchinsoni
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨 Methods paper out now!
nhcm.pensoft.net 📄

How can we make #entomology more engaging? Printed insect #3Dmodels can help! 🖨️ 🐜

Here we provide a guide to producing insect replicas to help overcome common issues in entomological #outreach activities! 🧩

Check it out!
doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM