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We are an inter-institutional project aiming to create an accessible Reference Collection of six pollinator focal-taxa: 🦋 Papilionidae, Hesperiidae, 🪰 Eristalinae, 🐝 Colletes, Bombus and Xylocopa.

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Exciting news! 📢🆕

After all the hard work, we can finally report some preliminary but promising results from the #INCSTEP reference collection!

Starting today, we will be revealing some of them over the next few weeks. Let's get started with #Xylocopa! 📡🐝

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🇪🇺These projects help establish open access to collections data, design and test novel AI and molecular tools, test training frameworks, and involve citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity hotspots. This community-based perspective is fundamental to the entire ethos of TETTRIs. #Taxonomy

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October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Last week, some #INCSTEP members participated in the XXI Iberian Entomology Congress.
The focus this year was on #pollinators! 🪰🐝🦋

Our initiative presented two virtual posters and two oral contributions! 🎓

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October 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
Today we held the final INC-STEP @tettris.eu meeting at @museuciencies.cat!

🗣️ To kick off the meeting, we had an opening talk by @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social, who gave us an overview of the project.
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Hey! How are you coping with the post-holiday blues? We're ready for anything! 🏁

Take a look at @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social contribution to #Ento25 in Glasgow. It's another chance to show off our progress on the #INCSTEP reference collection!

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September 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Take a look to what @incstep.bsky.social did yesterday in the workshop held in #Madrid !! 👇👀

It was focus in #pollinators conservation to foster coneections and raise awareness of #TETTRIsEU and #INCSTEP 🐝

#taxonomy #biodiversity
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 30, 2025 at 2:37 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
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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📷 Chupaleches (Iphiclides feisthamelii)
July 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🚨'Pollinators: Towards a National Network for Their Management'

Next week, #INCSTEP is organising the first meeting of pollinator reference collections, aimed to build connections between national entities related with #pollinator conservation! 🎉

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July 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today we bring you the last concept in our #TaxonomicBites series: Georeferencing 🌍🛰️!

The most vital data for specimens in NHCs are the PLACE (where) and YEAR (when) of collection. These provide us with spatial and temporal distribution information needed for biodiversity studies!
July 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's time for our bumblebees! 🐝

The #Bombus genus is charismatic yet under threat, so taxonomic support is vital! #NameItToSaveIt

Take a look at our brief report below 📊, as well as the presentation we created for this group some time ago. ⤵️
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July 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Let's introduce another key concept to our #TaxonomicBites series! Today: #Digitization! 💻

The information contained in NHCs has remained hidden from the general public for decades. But thanks to communications technology, collection data can now be shared worldwide 🌍🔄!

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June 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This week, we present another edition of our #TaxonomicBites series. This time: type material!

Among the samples #NHCs hold, type specimens stand out for their important role: setting the base for species delimitation. 🧩

They are usually highlighted with red labels! 🔴🏷️
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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🐝 Ya está disponible el Curso de Formación Permanente sobre Abejas Polinizadoras que hemos organizado desde el GTC Biodiversidad Agrícola y Urbana @usal, en el marco del Proyecto #Asilvestra.

📅 30 junio y 1 julio
🧑‍🦰 Plazas limitadas
💻 Inscripciones: eventum.usal.es/136191/detail/…
Introducción al conocimiento de abejas polinizadoras: Técnicas de muestreo e identificación
Curso presencial dirigido a aficionados y profesionales interesados en el conocimiento de la biodiversidad sobre todo de antófilos (abejas silvestres). No se exige acreditar nivel académico ni son nec...
https://eventum.usal.es/136191/detail/…
June 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Here's another look at our preliminary results! 🚨
This time, we're looking at a butterfly family that is more taxonomically challenging: the #Hesperiidae family! 🦋

Are you ready for the big numbers? 📊 #INCSTEP

In case you don't know them ℹ️⤵️
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June 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reference collections are key to present and future science (learn more reading our previous post 👇), but none of them would be possible without the taxonomic experts behind them.

Let’s meet their work in this new post of #TaxonomicBites! 👩‍💻🦋🐝 bsky.app/profile/incs...
May 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Estamos afrontando una crisis mundial de taxónomos.
Cada vez hay menos expertos en clasificar e identificar nuevas especies, y muchos de los que quedan están cerca de jubilarse.
Sigue leyendo para entender por qué esta crisis pone en riesgo la biodiversidad.
#taxonomy #taxonomia 🌍
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today marks the 318th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus's birth 🎂, and to celebrate, we present our favourite species: Eumerus petrarum! 🎉🔝

🪰This recently described hoverfly species (subfamily Eristalinae) likes to bask on rocky outcrops — hence its Latin name!

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May 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
More preliminary results of our Task 1. Taxonomic review and validation of #INCSTEP focal taxa holdings!

It is the turn of the #Papilionidae family! 🦋📢 (check our previous post in the link below). We also have a new infographics about this group! 📊
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INC-STEP on X: "Let's move on to another of our 6️⃣ #INCSTEP objective taxa: the family #Papilionidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera) 🦋! Also known as swallowtail butterflies, these colourful and large insects inhabit all continents except Antarctica, playing a key role in pollination 🌼. https://t.co/vKv4A7v5JN" / X
Let's move on to another of our 6️⃣ #INCSTEP objective taxa: the family #Papilionidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera) 🦋! Also known as swallowtail butterflies, these colourful and large insects inhabit all continents except Antarctica, playing a key role in pollination 🌼. https://t.co/vKv4A7v5JN
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May 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Hoy se celebra el #DiamundialdelasAbejas

... esas abejas melíferas que son "el ser vivo más importante" porque son "las polinizadoras" de las plantas,
... esas abejas "en peligro de extinción" que, si desaparecieran, "a los humanos nos quedarían 4 años de vida".

¿Y SI TODO ESO FUERA FALSO? 😜🤓
May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
During last months, you’ve probably heard about #INCSTEP pollinator reference collection… 🐝 But, do you know what a Reference Collection (RC) is? 🤔

Today we kick off a series of knowledge capsules to unpack this and other key concepts in taxonomy!

#TaxonomicBites 📚
May 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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🌍 #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day – May 23! 🌿
Let’s celebrate the vital role of #taxonomy in protecting #biodiversity on Earth!
📸 Snap a photo of your favourite animal, plant, or mineral
🔤 Identify it with its taxonomic name (we’re happy to help!)
📱 Share it on social media using #NameItToSaveIt
May 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM