Recently did a 12 day bumblebee trip to Sweden, train, Flixbuzz etc. This lovely Bombus Pratorum was shot near Uppsala
Paul Williams
@paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social
Bumblebee taxonomy / evolution / biogeography - at NHM London: guides to the species of the Himalaya, Sichuan, North China, & North America working with genes & morphology pic: Yuzhu Mt, Kunlun range
Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10
Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
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New female reproductives (gynes) of Bombus terrestris out and about pre dormancy @cofnod.org.uk
Our evolutionary tree for all world bumblebees paper on the cover of Insects! One conclusion: males with enlarged eyes and short antennae are evolutionarily convergent which may be associated with truly territorial mate-searching behaviour (competing for perches) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In this French document www.biodiversite-auvergne-rhone-alpes.fr/documents/li... It is said that Bombus Brodmannicus isn't seen since the 1970's.
Bombus hortorum - a new gyne taking nectar from Phlomis russeliana flowers @cofnod.org.uk
Net diversification rate - a new measure mapped for all of the world’s bumblebees and compared with species richness by overlaying them in different colours – excess of DR in green (S America) and excess of SR in blue (Himalaya/Rockies) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A side by side comparison of the #bumblebees #Bombus ternarius and huntii. Do you see that the latter has what looks like a mite attached to its body? #beesofcanada
I don’t think anything is missing in your dataset. I used ‘near-complete’ just in a cautious sense about wording, not as a criticism. I really find it an impressive and valuable synthesis!
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/...
It’s World Bee 🐝 Day! A day to celebrate these amazing insects, and to reflect on how we can support wild populations of 🐝 🐝 for the future. Museum collections are key in showing where bees used to be, setting baselines to understand impacts of stressors and set restoration/conservation targets
#WorldBeeDay My lone photo of a bee to honor World Bee Day today, August 20th. 🐝 #EastCoastKin #ECK #Macro #Bee #Bloomscrolling
Bees spend a lot of energy while buzz-pollinating flowers. We used respirometry, lasers, and bees in 3D chambers to figure just how energetically expensive it is. Thanks @bethbees.bsky.social and @natacharossi.bsky.social for this fun collaboration! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Garden Bumblebee queen at Greater Periwinkle, Bryher, Scilly. 25 April
Bumblebees are buzzing with Bluetooth trackers at the Arboretum Fifty queen bees are being tracked with Bluetooth technology as part of a research project to determine behavioural differences between commercial and wild bees www.guelphtoday.com/grounded/bum...
Bumblebees are buzzing with Bluetooth trackers at the Arboretum
Fifty queen bees are being tracked with Bluetooth technology as part of a research project to determine behavioural differences between commercial and wild bees
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Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%
Les reines bourdons peuvent survivre et respirer sous l'eau pendant des jours. Découvrez comment Sabrina Rondeau a découvert ce phénomène et ses récentes recherches révélant la physiologie qui permet aux reines de survivre immergées sur @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/comment-les-...
Lovely to see Brown-banded Carder back on the allotment, examining the compost heap and nectaring on Red Dead-nettle
Shocked to report that my first bumble bee of the season was a rusty patched queen! What a delightful surprise
I collected this #Bombus terricola in 2015 on the Îles de la Madeleine, an Archipelago in #Québec - I knew of no previous records. Today I found an 1890 publication of Léon Provancher and it was one of two bee species listed. We now know there are at least 5 other #bumblebee species there too.
Good grief! How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
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Trump has called on Congress to pass a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.
Small Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) gyne collecting Pulmonaria nectar.
Great fun to meet the University of Ohio's Evolution in Darwin's World group led by Jamie Strange and Ben Philip in the NHM's bumblebee collection on a fab spring day
Great to welcome Nikki Gammans' rare UK bumblebee ID workshop to the NHM for their conservation projects - an opportunity to catch up on exciting progress from this enormously valuable and successful group!
One of the most beautiful bumblebees in the French Alps: Bombus Brodmannicus foraging on Cerinthe esp. in the morning and the evening. We planned two trips to see this beauty 😍. Several days later whole are was grazed by sheep, no flowers left sadly.