Alexis Gkantiragas
@alexisggk.bsky.social
I study bees and live on a boat and those are the two interesting things about me
PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites
PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites
Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
September 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hymenoptera represent!
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hymenoptera represent!
@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
April 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tbf Windsor great park is beautiful
April 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Tbf Windsor great park is beautiful
Parasitellus sp under a dissection microscope. Found under the wings of a bumblebee queen.
They survive from detritus in the colony
A single queen can have loads of these guys hiding out
#bumblebee #science #bugsky #parasite #bees
They survive from detritus in the colony
A single queen can have loads of these guys hiding out
#bumblebee #science #bugsky #parasite #bees
March 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Parasitellus sp under a dissection microscope. Found under the wings of a bumblebee queen.
They survive from detritus in the colony
A single queen can have loads of these guys hiding out
#bumblebee #science #bugsky #parasite #bees
They survive from detritus in the colony
A single queen can have loads of these guys hiding out
#bumblebee #science #bugsky #parasite #bees
March 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Genuinely no clue why I've got this plankton paper open on my tabs
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Genuinely no clue why I've got this plankton paper open on my tabs
Im sorry what in the actual **** do you mean bumblebee queens crossed a 50km stretch of sea
#bugsky #invert #bees
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10....
#bugsky #invert #bees
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10....
March 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Im sorry what in the actual **** do you mean bumblebee queens crossed a 50km stretch of sea
#bugsky #invert #bees
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10....
#bugsky #invert #bees
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10....
Such a missed opportunity. Could have been seal of approval :(
February 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Such a missed opportunity. Could have been seal of approval :(
Just some dessicated frogs on the office walls. Nothing to see here
February 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just some dessicated frogs on the office walls. Nothing to see here
Cool paper I came across doing my lit review
Zombifying fungus in a soldier beetle that makes them cling onto flowers by their mandibles as they die
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bugsky #ento
Zombifying fungus in a soldier beetle that makes them cling onto flowers by their mandibles as they die
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bugsky #ento
February 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cool paper I came across doing my lit review
Zombifying fungus in a soldier beetle that makes them cling onto flowers by their mandibles as they die
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bugsky #ento
Zombifying fungus in a soldier beetle that makes them cling onto flowers by their mandibles as they die
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bugsky #ento
Fwiw at least one outlet is not doing this nonsense
February 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Fwiw at least one outlet is not doing this nonsense
February 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Cat why is your face like this
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Cat why is your face like this
January 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM