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Conservation Biology MRes | Interested in plant - pollinator interactions | solitary bee enthusiast | bumblebee lover | AuDHD | 🐝🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇪
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Graeme Hart, 57, believes autism is a horrific scourge on humanity – but that there’s no reason for you, an autistic person, to be so uncivil about it.
“We can disagree and stay friends” says man who thinks you should be eugenicsed out of existence
A man who believes you can disagree on politics and “still love each other” also believes scientists should find out what caused you so someone like you never happens again, and you, personally,…
thedailytism.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🚨 Climate & nature need action now. You can help decision-makers face the facts:

📢 Take 2 mins to ask your MP to attend the National Emergency Briefing at Westminster Central Hall on Nov 27: https://ow.ly/ZmoV50XrMHJ

National Emergency Briefing #NEB2025 #ClimateBriefing #IsYourMPAttending
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November.
ow.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
/ pulling hyssop flower

#agapostemon #beePhoto #bees #SweatBee #BeesAndFlowers #beePhotography
November 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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It’s all connected…

A ‘rapists rights’ group that harasses rape victims, was invited to speak at Abertay University by Dr Stuart Waiton - who Chairs the “Scottish Union for Education” and took part in the right-wing faux ‘free speech’ “Battle of Ideas Festival” this year…
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#Viewpoint: Exploring the importance of aromatic #plants' extrafloral volatiles for #pollinator attraction

Kantsa et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
September 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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May 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Our new research reveals one of the more surprising ways that climate change can impact on bumblebees:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Navigating a warming world: heatwave exposure during development affects responses to UV light in male bumble bees
Heatwaves can create adverse conditions that impact physiological and behavioural traits in insects. Although the ability to tolerate extreme temperat…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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#Bee-flies are back—now it really feels like spring!
April 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Starting to see a few more #Solitarybees in the garden this week with the warmer weather. Female Andrena tibialis on Mirabelle Plum and female Andrena nitida on Amelanchier.
#Pollinators
April 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Andrena flavipes

#solitarybees #pollinators
April 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A very nice male Andrena trimmerana posing for the camera, showing off his fine genal spine. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich.
#SolitaryBees #Pollinators
March 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A male Andrena trimmerana (Trimmer's Mining Bee) sunning himself on a Cherry Laurel leaf.

Yesterday afternoon in Norwich.

www.flickr.com/photos/63075...
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Flower constancy helps pollinators avoid the cost of switching search images or handling skills. But in nature, where flowers grow in clusters, could it also increase travel costs? If you've ever wondered about this, check out our latest paper in @funecology.bsky.social #Ecology

bit.ly/3QtUVzK

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February 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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A reminder that we'll start seeing the first Anthophora plumipes of the new spring in the next couple of weeks if we're lucky. Adorable, busy, charismatic little bees visiting all the long-tubed spring flowers they can find.

(What crop flowers have you seen them using? I've seen them on haskap.)
A female hairy footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes. One of the few digger bee species we have in the UK and personally one of my favourite bee species.

Male bees are a brownish-orange colour with long hairs on the middle pair of legs.

#entomology #insects #bugs #bees
February 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you've noted the massive failure to mention climate change in mainstream coverage about the LA fires, here is a piece that specifically discusses how climate change has exacerbated wildfires in California in the last decade. The current fires will likely go down as among the most destructive.
15 of the Most Destructive 20 Wildfires in California Have Occurred in the Past Decade
The effects of the climate crisis appear to be making California wildfires more destructive.
truthout.org
January 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I am missing my buzzy bee pals. This little beauty is a patchwork #leafcutterbee. She’s collecting #pollen from a cosmos flower into the brush (scopa) under her abdomen. #solitarybees. Right now her babies are tucked up inside little leafy cells waiting for spring!
January 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Can 🌸visitation records be used to figure out whether a bee is a pollen diet specialist? New open access pub in Oecologia led by Colleen Smith & Katja Seltmann & w/ my Missouri State University #RussellLab undergrad team!

And the answer is... yes! Check it out 😇 ⬇️

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pollen specialist bee species are accurately predicted from visitation, occurrence and phylogenetic data - Oecologia
An animal’s diet breadth is a central aspect of its life history, yet the factors determining why some species have narrow dietary breadths (specialists) and others have broad dietary breadths (genera...
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December 19, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Happy Solstice from Dusty and me! #artadventcalendar #bees
December 21, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Genus Rhodirphia
Santa Lucia Cloud Reserve, Ecuador
December 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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🐝 Limestone Quarries & Wild Bees

A study from @britishecolsoc.bsky.social finds abandoned quarries can be vital habitats for 114 bee species, including 35 endangered ones, when managed well. Connectivity & floral diversity are key.

🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SciComm 🧪
Landscape diversity, habitat connectivity, age and size determine the conservation value of limestone quarries for diverse wild bee communities
Observed negative effects of high woody vegetation cover on bee communities highlight the importance of local management to reduce shrub encroachment and reset successional processes in limestone qua....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:56 PM