Ollie Spacey
@biolliegist.bsky.social
DPhil (PhD) student in Salgo Team, Dept Biology, Uni of Oxford🔬| Parasite ecology and evolution, especially mistletoe 🦠🌱🦟 | BES Quantitative Ecology 📊📈
@bsbicountries.bsky.social wonderful spot! thanks so much for submitting to mistleGO! alder is certainly not the most common host:)
January 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
@bsbicountries.bsky.social wonderful spot! thanks so much for submitting to mistleGO! alder is certainly not the most common host:)
jury’s out… though they’re SO rare I reckon it would be hard to make a tradition out of…
December 24, 2024 at 5:41 PM
jury’s out… though they’re SO rare I reckon it would be hard to make a tradition out of…
And so concludes another year's #mistletoe advent calendar! Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year all! And if you want to help our research by recording mistletoe on your winter walks, check out MistleGO!: treecouncil.org.uk/science-and-... 🌱🎄🧪
Mistletoe research - The Tree Council
More than just a symbol of Christmas
Mistletoe has an air of Christmas magic, but it is, in fact, a parasite with a fascinating relationship with trees. European mistletoe (Viscum album) grows in gre...
treecouncil.org.uk
December 24, 2024 at 3:04 PM
And so concludes another year's #mistletoe advent calendar! Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year all! And if you want to help our research by recording mistletoe on your winter walks, check out MistleGO!: treecouncil.org.uk/science-and-... 🌱🎄🧪
Day 24: Pliny the Elder wrote about the druids harvesting #mistletoe from oak trees, but oak is an extremely rare host for Viscum album... There are only 13 confirmed mistletoe-oaks in Britain! (Box, 2019) Maybe Pliny was talking about Loranthus... 🌳🧪 (25/26)
December 24, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Day 24: Pliny the Elder wrote about the druids harvesting #mistletoe from oak trees, but oak is an extremely rare host for Viscum album... There are only 13 confirmed mistletoe-oaks in Britain! (Box, 2019) Maybe Pliny was talking about Loranthus... 🌳🧪 (25/26)
Day 23: many species are vulnerable to the effects of drought, but mistletoe could help! One study found that Australian mistletoes like Amyema and Dendrophthoe may moderate drought impacts on birds, but the.mistletoes are vulnerable to drought themselves... (Crates et al., 2022) 🐦🧪 (24/26)
December 23, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Day 23: many species are vulnerable to the effects of drought, but mistletoe could help! One study found that Australian mistletoes like Amyema and Dendrophthoe may moderate drought impacts on birds, but the.mistletoes are vulnerable to drought themselves... (Crates et al., 2022) 🐦🧪 (24/26)
Day 22: the effects of #mistletoe on ecosystems can be complex... Recently, scientists in France have found invasive Drosophila suzukii flies using Viscum album fruits to help them overwinter, and mistletoe could support the flies in infesting crop fruits (Deconninck et al., 2024) 🍎🧪 (23/26)
December 22, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Day 22: the effects of #mistletoe on ecosystems can be complex... Recently, scientists in France have found invasive Drosophila suzukii flies using Viscum album fruits to help them overwinter, and mistletoe could support the flies in infesting crop fruits (Deconninck et al., 2024) 🍎🧪 (23/26)
Day 21: a somewhat less scientific #mistletoe fact... Cliff Richard's Christmas classic "Mistletoe and Wine" was the best-selling song in the UK that whole year, with over 500,000 copies sold. It was originally written for a musical ("Scraps"), based off a Hans Christian Andersen novel...🍷🧪 (22/26)
December 21, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Day 21: a somewhat less scientific #mistletoe fact... Cliff Richard's Christmas classic "Mistletoe and Wine" was the best-selling song in the UK that whole year, with over 500,000 copies sold. It was originally written for a musical ("Scraps"), based off a Hans Christian Andersen novel...🍷🧪 (22/26)