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Bees can learn to discriminate between visual stimuli of different durations. In the latest issue of Biology Letters. Thanks to everyone involved.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Duration discrimination in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris | Biology Letters
The ability to process temporal information is crucial for animal activities like
foraging, mating and predator avoidance. While circadian rhythms have been extensively
studied, there is limited knowl...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Bees can learn to discriminate between visual stimuli of different durations. In the latest issue of Biology Letters. Thanks to everyone involved.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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A new study in Science evaluating published data from 19 countries has pinpointed the minimum habitat levels needed to sustain pollinators in agricultural landscapes. https://scim.ag/3VIq4Cg
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A new study in Science evaluating published data from 19 countries has pinpointed the minimum habitat levels needed to sustain pollinators in agricultural landscapes. https://scim.ag/3VIq4Cg
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Winter-active bumblebees: Still flying when it’s freezing! ❄
In our latest blog, Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Trust, reveals why some bumblebees are still active, and how you can help 🐝 Grab a cuppa and read on 🔗 https://ow.ly/xVJo50XuzUt
#Winter #Bumblebees #Cold
In our latest blog, Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Trust, reveals why some bumblebees are still active, and how you can help 🐝 Grab a cuppa and read on 🔗 https://ow.ly/xVJo50XuzUt
#Winter #Bumblebees #Cold
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Winter-active bumblebees: Still flying when it’s freezing! ❄
In our latest blog, Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Trust, reveals why some bumblebees are still active, and how you can help 🐝 Grab a cuppa and read on 🔗 https://ow.ly/xVJo50XuzUt
#Winter #Bumblebees #Cold
In our latest blog, Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Trust, reveals why some bumblebees are still active, and how you can help 🐝 Grab a cuppa and read on 🔗 https://ow.ly/xVJo50XuzUt
#Winter #Bumblebees #Cold
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🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
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#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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"Climate-change-induced extreme #heat and #drought... present critical threats to pollen viability, the pollination process, and seed formation, with significant implications for plant sexual reproduction and global #foodsecurity."
#ClimateSky
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Sexual reproduction in plants under high temperature and drought stress
Climate-change-induced extreme heat and drought increasingly threaten plant growth and development, with a particularly significant impact on sexual r…
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April 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"Climate-change-induced extreme #heat and #drought... present critical threats to pollen viability, the pollination process, and seed formation, with significant implications for plant sexual reproduction and global #foodsecurity."
#ClimateSky
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#ClimateSky
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One in three mouthfuls of our food are due to the hard work of pollinating insects, including bumblebees. But insect populations are crashing. Help them by growing nectar-rich plants that flower in autumn, winter and early spring.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
One in three mouthfuls of our food are due to the hard work of pollinating insects, including bumblebees. But insect populations are crashing. Help them by growing nectar-rich plants that flower in autumn, winter and early spring.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
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🧐 How many chemicals are we all wearing? A new study had neighbors near farms wear wristbands & they found up to 11 different #pesticides on their skin. They are inescapable, even banned ones.
EU countries must stop funding the problem & invest in the solution (#Agroecology👋)
EU countries must stop funding the problem & invest in the solution (#Agroecology👋)
‘I was contaminated’: study reveals how hard it is to avoid pesticide exposure
Silicone wristbands worn by volunteers in the Netherlands captured 173 substances in one week
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🧐 How many chemicals are we all wearing? A new study had neighbors near farms wear wristbands & they found up to 11 different #pesticides on their skin. They are inescapable, even banned ones.
EU countries must stop funding the problem & invest in the solution (#Agroecology👋)
EU countries must stop funding the problem & invest in the solution (#Agroecology👋)
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📝 The first plant-pollinator interaction network in Europe maps the intimate connections between pollinators and the plants they visit.
🔎 Check out the latest #SafeguardPractices: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/Project/Publ...
🔎 Check out the latest #SafeguardPractices: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/Project/Publ...
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📝 The first plant-pollinator interaction network in Europe maps the intimate connections between pollinators and the plants they visit.
🔎 Check out the latest #SafeguardPractices: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/Project/Publ...
🔎 Check out the latest #SafeguardPractices: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/Project/Publ...
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EU leaders also renewed their push for the #simplification of EU laws, a move that risks weakening vital environmental protections.
This is legislation which protects
🌳Forests
🏞️Fresh water
😶🌫️Clean air
🏚️People against #ClimateChange
👉 www.wwf.eu?19760941/euc...
This is legislation which protects
🌳Forests
🏞️Fresh water
😶🌫️Clean air
🏚️People against #ClimateChange
👉 www.wwf.eu?19760941/euc...
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
EU leaders also renewed their push for the #simplification of EU laws, a move that risks weakening vital environmental protections.
This is legislation which protects
🌳Forests
🏞️Fresh water
😶🌫️Clean air
🏚️People against #ClimateChange
👉 www.wwf.eu?19760941/euc...
This is legislation which protects
🌳Forests
🏞️Fresh water
😶🌫️Clean air
🏚️People against #ClimateChange
👉 www.wwf.eu?19760941/euc...