Katherine Baldock
@katherinebaldock.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Ecology at Northumbria University, UK
Pollinators 🐝🦋🌸
Conservation
Urban ecology
Ecological networks
#wiasn
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Pollinators 🐝🦋🌸
Conservation
Urban ecology
Ecological networks
#wiasn
Personal account | She/her
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Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
The Spirit of the Rainforest
The Spirit of the Rainforest
www.northumbria.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
Reposted by Katherine Baldock
‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect
‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect
Prof Dave Goulson is one of the world’s foremost experts on insects. But there’s a special place in his heart for hoverflies, one of the prettiest flies around. Here he explains why we should nominate hoverflies as invertebrate of the year
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect
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Fly pollinators are even more vulnerable to rising global temperatures than bees.
🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security."
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security."
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
Pollinators most vulnerable to rising global temperatures are flies, study shows | Penn State University
Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth’s most prolific pollinators — and new research led by Penn State scientists suggests they are increasing...
www.psu.edu
December 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Fly pollinators are even more vulnerable to rising global temperatures than bees.
🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security."
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security."
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
Reposted by Katherine Baldock
This is bound to be fascinating. Such an important topic 👇
Check out "Food vs. Nature: the role of community food growing"
I'm speaking - obviously suggesting its not a conflict 🧐- do join us
@incediblebarnet.bsky.social
@sustainweb.org
@gardenorganicuk.bsky.social
@permaculturemag.bsky.social
#Community_growing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-vs-na...?
I'm speaking - obviously suggesting its not a conflict 🧐- do join us
@incediblebarnet.bsky.social
@sustainweb.org
@gardenorganicuk.bsky.social
@permaculturemag.bsky.social
#Community_growing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-vs-na...?
Food vs. Nature: the role of community food growing
Does food growing and wildlife habitat have to be in competition? Or, can our limited urban green spaces support both food and nature?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This is bound to be fascinating. Such an important topic 👇
Reposted by Katherine Baldock
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...