#Pollinators
🪰 Insects of the genus Usia (Bombyliidae).
When Usia visitation rates were low, pollen quality on short-styled stigmas dropped sharply, suggesting these flies are key to maintaining proper morph reciprocity. (8/10)
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🐝🪰But what happens when pollinators don’t perform ideally?
Deviations from this precise pollen exchange can weaken the system and bias reproductive success, an aspect rarely studied in species with open corollas like L. narbonense (Linaceae). (4/10)
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In distylous species, flowers come in two forms:
✨ Long-styled (pin) and short-styled (thrum).
Their reciprocal organ positions promote cross-pollination between morphs, relying on pollinators to carry pollen from one to the other, perfectly aligned. (3/10)
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How do pollinators maintain, or disrupt, the elegant balance of distyly?
This new study on Linum narbonense explores how insect visitors shape pollen transfer between floral morphs, revealing that not all pollinators are equally faithful. (2/10)
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🌸Check the newly published article ‘Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @j-valverde.bsky.social 🧵(1/10)

👉 doi.org/qc2r

@ebdonana.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📣 #VALOR joins #EntSoc25, hosted by the @entsocamerica.bsky.social. An annual meeting bringing together experts from across the insect-science community.

📍From Portland, USA, we're sharing VALOR's mission: Exploring the values and dependence of society on pollinators.

Come and find us! 👀
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Insect decline signals a deep ecological imbalance

#pollinators
#pollinatordecline
#insectdecline
#ecosystemservices

Integrating insect-mediated services into national accounting systems ... is critical to preventing irreversible ecological collapse.

india.mongabay.com/2025/11/inse...
Insect decline signals a deep ecological imbalance [Commentary]
Insects, representing over two-thirds of known biodiversity, provide critical ecosystem services such as pollination, and pest regulation.
india.mongabay.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📢Reporting from #EntSoc25, the @entsocamerica.bsky.social's global gathering for insect-science professionals to exchange knowledge and collaborate.

Find #AGRI4POL in Portland, USA and find out how we are promoting sustainable agriculture for pollinators 🌎🚜🐝

Activity by CDE partner @pensoft.net
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A new species of native leaf cutter bee, Megachile lucifer, has been described in Western Australia. This is one of an estimated 500 currently undescribed native #bees in Australia

#ausinverts #wildoz #pollinators #nature #inverts

theconversation.com/i-discovered...
I discovered a new Australian native bee, but there are still hundreds we need to identify
The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"Leave the leaves" to give bees and pollinators somewhere to hibernate throughout winter ❤️

environmentamerica.org/articles/whe...
Where do bumblebees go in the winter?
The story of bumblebee hibernation and how you can help them
environmentamerica.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/i-disco...
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Pollination is a team effort. 🐝🦜🦇

Bees get the spotlight, but birds, bats & beetles also move the pollen that sustains our ecosystems.
Explore the diverse cast of Australian pollinators and why biodiversity depends on them: blog.publish.csiro.au/austpollinat...

#AustralianPollinatorWeek
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Angelina Jolie posed for National Geographic covered in thousands of live bees for World Bee Day. She went three days without showering so they wouldn’t be confused by scents and stood still for 18 minutes. The powerful image highlights the urgent need to protect Earth’s vital pollinators.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🌼 New research alert! A study led by Kaysee Arrowsmith and co-authored by Berry Brosi reveals that rising temperatures are changing which flowers pollinators choose—reshaping plant-pollinator networks.🌿#ClimateChange #Pollination #MountainScience

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition
This paper presents novel research that empirically demonstrates a direct link between temperature and plant–pollinator interaction patterns, independently of changes to community composition in eith...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Soooo late to the party #GardensHour but i have been running a pollinators workshop for the girl guides though, am i forgiven? I did make seed paper this week 😇
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🌿 Thankful for our Local Champions! 🌿

Across Iowa, communities are making neighborhoods safer for kids, pets, pollinators, and waterways by going pesticide-free. These champions are leading the way to a more sustainable future, one lawn at a time! 💚

Learn more: goodneighboriowa.org/local-champi...
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🎶Just another Monarch Monday, whoa, whoa🎶

#photographersofbluesky
#nature #pollinators
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Loquats bloom into December, and the scent is wonderful. Honeybees and native pollinators flock to the blossoms.
#flowers #bees
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It all comes down to water...and pollinators. Stop breeding, humans.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A newly identified native bee species with distinctive horn-like features has been discovered in Western Australia's Goldfields, underscoring the diversity of Australia's native pollinators. doi.org/g99xcf
Devilishly distinctive new bee species discovered in Western Australia Goldfields
A new native bee species with tiny devil-like "horns" named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer has been discovered in Western Australia's Goldfields, highlighting how much remains unknown about Australia's native pollinators.
phys.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Apply: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
#bugsky #entomology 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Same problem exists in California. Too many non-native plants choking out natives and decimating native pollinators.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM