#BeesUp 🐝 wurde für die Bienenfördermaßnahmen in Braunschweig als UN-Dekade Gewinnerprojekt ausgezeichnet! 🥳🥳🥳 @jki-research.bsky.social

Bundesamt für Naturschutz@bfn-de.bsky.social · 2w ago

Im Rahmen der UN-Dekade Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen haben wir mit dem @umweltministerium.de versch. Projekte zur Wiederherstellung von Bestäuberpopulationen ausgezeichnet. Die Gewinner zeigen, was wir für Biene & Co. tun können. www.undekade-restoration.de/projektwettb... Foto:Henri Greil,JKI

New preprint from the lab, led by PhD student Leopold Preuß, with @marta-tischer.bsky.social, @cblei.bsky.social, and others. We show genomic evidence for #Wolbachia being an overlooked nutritional symbiont in solitary #bees. #SymbioSky https://tinyurl.com/3wzt27hy Short thread: (1/8)

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

New evolutionary tree for all of the world's bumblebee species, from (1) slow-evolving nuclear genes, (2) fast-evolving mitochondrial genes, and (3) results from genomic data, to provide a complete starting point for comparative studies of all bumblebees www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🐝🐝🐝 Weltbienentag 🐝🐝🐝 Der 20. Mai ist Weltbienentag! SAT.1 war in Göttingen und hat Wildbienen-Fachleute der @bsggoettingen.bsky.social interviewed 🥳 @cblei.bsky.social Natürlich im Alten Botanischen Garten der @uni-goettingen.de - einem absoluten Wildbienen-Hotspot! 🐝

Es war wirklich eine spannende Veranstaltung, die hoffentlich fortgesetzt wird.

Bundesamt für Naturschutz@bfn-de.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aktuell findet im #BfN das NBS-Dialogforum „Insektenschutz in der Praxis – Erkenntnisse aus den Projekten im Bundesprogramm Biologische Vielfalt“ statt. Die Teilnehmenden tauschen sich über aktuelle Entwicklungen, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven im Insektenschutz aus.

Am heutigen #Weltbienentag 🐝 hatte ich spannende Diskussionen mit zahlreichen anderen Projektverantwortlichen, DLR, BfN und BMUKN zum Insektenschutz in der Praxis im Rahmen des NBS-Dialogforums im Bundesamt für Naturschutz in Bonn. #BeesUp @bfn-de.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social

This Halictus tumulorum was caught by a crab spider while collecting pollen. Bees are the most important pollinators. But they are also a vital food source for numerous animal species. #WorldBeeDay #Weltbienentag #BeesUp @jki-research.bsky.social @bmleh.de @bfn-de.bsky.social

Die @taz.de hat die 7 neuen Wildbienen-Arten für Niedersachsen zur Zahl des Tages gekürt! 🥳 taz.de/Zahl-des-Tag...

🐝🐝🐝 Sieben neue Wildbienenarten für Niedersachsen entdeckt! 🐝🐝🐝 Artikel in Kooperation von Fachleuten der @bsggoettingen.bsky.social @habitecture.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social @funcagroeco.bsky.social @cblei.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de ua. Download▶️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Der @ndr.de berichtet über die Wildbienen-Erstnachweise für Niedersachsen! 🐝🥳 @bsggoettingen.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social @habitecture.bsky.social @funcagroeco.bsky.social @cblei.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Erstmals in Niedersachsen - Forschende weisen sieben seltene Wildbienenarten nach

Forschende aus Göttingen, Braunschweig, Lüneburg und Hamburg haben eine Studie zum Bestand der Wildbienen durchgeführt.

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🐝Pressemitteilung des JKI: www.julius-kuehn.de/pressemittei...

PI2026-04: Sieben neue Wildbienenarten für Niedersachsen entdeckt. Drei der sieben Erstnachweise wurden vom Julius Kühn-Institut erbracht.

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Wir haben die GartenDiv-Webseite überarbeitet. Auf Grundlage der Auswertung und Umfrage des letzten Jahres haben wir die Datenerfassung durch weniger Pflichtangaben und die Flora-Routine vereinfacht. Jetzt mitmachen und die Pflanzenvielfalt in eurem Garten erfassen! 🤗 floraincognita.de/gartendiv/

Katrin Lena Schneider@lenahallesaale.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ich möchte euch nochmal an das #CitizenScience Projekt #GartenDiv erinnern! Jetzt geht es mit den Frühjahrsblühern los, ein guter Moment, damit anzufangen.

Yesterday, on the last day of February, two more solitary wild bee species hatched in Braunschweig: Andrena fulva and Andrena clarkella. #BeesUp

Henri Greil@habitecture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The bee season has also begun here. Many queen bumblebees (Bombus terrestris, B. pratorum, B. lapidarius and B. hypnorum) and solitary bees (Andrena vaga, A. bicolor, Xylocopa violacea, Osmia cornuta) have been flying around Braunschweig since this week. #BeesUp

Look how important crocus flowers can be for Queen bumblebees in early spring...

Henri Greil@habitecture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The bee season has also begun here. Many queen bumblebees (Bombus terrestris, B. pratorum, B. lapidarius and B. hypnorum) and solitary bees (Andrena vaga, A. bicolor, Xylocopa violacea, Osmia cornuta) have been flying around Braunschweig since this week. #BeesUp

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European red list of bees - Publications Office of the EU

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The mating of Stylops ater in the aggregation of Andrena vaga at the Institute for Bee Protection at the @jki-research.bsky.social in Braunschweig vaga is in full swing. #BeesUp

The bee season has also begun here. Many queen bumblebees (Bombus terrestris, B. pratorum, B. lapidarius and B. hypnorum) and solitary bees (Andrena vaga, A. bicolor, Xylocopa violacea, Osmia cornuta) have been flying around Braunschweig since this week. #BeesUp

Policy brief "Restoring pollinators in Europe" Within our EU-funded project RestPoll, we bring together scientific evidence in a new policy brief that identifies the most effective renaturation measures to support... https://alexandra-m-klein.com/policy-brief-restoring-pollinators-in-europe

New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠

Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task

Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.

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Universität Konstanz@uni-konstanz.de · 5mo ago

During their search for food, most insects head specifically for the flowers that promise the highest reward. Researchers from the #UniKonstanz and the @uni-wuerzburg.de have now studied how bumblebees process information about their food sources. Full story: t1p.de/mndcd

Ich möchte euch nochmal an das #CitizenScience Projekt #GartenDiv erinnern! Jetzt geht es mit den Frühjahrsblühern los, ein guter Moment, damit anzufangen.

Bumblebees of the Asian steppes - Sibiricobombus - our latest global revision of a bumblebee subgenus out today: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Andrew Straw@andrewstraw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

New lab paper! It's a first, first-authored paper by PhD student, @nicki-bailey.bsky.social ! Nicki won the 2024 @entsocamerica.bsky.social @pie-entsoc.bsky.social Master's Student Achievement in Entomology Award. Read it here! doi.org/10.1093/ee/n...

Local-scale factors predict wild bee richness, whereas landscape-scale factors predict butterfly richness in city parks

Abstract. Urbanization has a growing influence on pollinator species worldwide, benefiting some species while threatening others. Urban areas have high cov

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Happy to share our latest publication with you. 🧵 Trees are often overlooked as relevant bee forage ressources. Realising that there is relatively little known about bees in flowering tree canopies, we searched for data and methodologies to tackle this gap. @jki-research.bsky.social

JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology@jpollecol.bsky.social · 7mo ago

FIT for purpose? Sampling Bees in Flowering Canopies with Flight Interception Traps (FITs) by Krahner et al. provides methodological advice on how to best sample pollinators in tree canopies. doi.org/10.26786/192...

FIT for purpose? Sampling Bees in Flowering Canopies with Flight Interception Traps (FITs) by Krahner et al. provides methodological advice on how to best sample pollinators in tree canopies. doi.org/10.26786/192...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv reports that #soil sand content is a driving force in structuring #bee #communities doi.org/10.1111/icad.70051 #Conservation #InsectHabitats #Distribution @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

Wie lassen sich Europas #Agrarlandschaften so wiederherstellen, dass die #Ökosysteme und auch die #Gesellschaft profitieren? Forschende haben Empfehlungen für eine sozial inklusive Umsetzung der neuen EU-Verordnung veröffentlicht. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9