Pilar De la Rúa
@pdelarua.bsky.social
Biologist🐝🧬🏝️ Professor at the University of Murcia
Join Butterfly as a Research Engineer in Economics at CIHEAM Montpellier, France. 6-month, full-time contract. Apply by 15 October 2026. Help connect pollinator science with economic decision-making. #Jobs #Pollinators
CIHEAM Montpellier@ciheammontpellier.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are recruiting 📍a Research Engineer in Economics 🔸6 months full-time contract 🔸within the scope of the Butterfly Horizon Europe project - #ButterflyProject
Que difícil fotografiar abejicas cómo esta (por JA Acosta) How difficult it is to take good photos of bees like this (by JA Acosta).
See also: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
EU Omnibus proposal increases pesticide risks
More efficient environmental risk assessment and stronger protection are achievable
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Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 3w ago573 scientists request to pause the legislative debate on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus pending an independent impact assessment Responsible policymaking calls for caution rather than speed #Pesticide(de)regualtion www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...
Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!
PULSE — Virginia Domínguez-García
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Mullin et al. use WGS from 101 museum specimens of British/Irish moss carder bumblebees from 1894-2019 to reveal a dramatic drop in genetic diversity: ∼24.6% decrease in heterozygosity and a 2.86-fold increase in ROH 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 📷 Gavin Broad #societyjournal #naturalhistory
Last week I have the chance to present the work by @dlugo95.bsky.social, my PhD student supervised together with @carlathus.bsky.social, at #EurBee11 in Bologna, showing more bee diversity and cryptic diversity on the Canary Islands then we thought 🐝🐝🏝️🏝️ Let’s protect them! #BeeConservation
Commonness and rarity of pollinators: species abundance and diversity in a hyperdiverse Mediterranean assemblage by Herrera - a very comprehensive analysis of patterns of species abundance and pollinator diversity of almost 30 years of data! doi.org/10.26786/192...
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La Isla, refugio clave para algunas de las abejas más singulares y amenazadas
Durante años se ha atribuido a Albert Einstein una frase tan rotunda como inquietante: “Si las abejas desaparecieran del planeta, al ser humano solo le quedarían cuatro años de vida”. Resulta
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Comparto este trabajo de @curromolina.bsky.social recién salido de imprenta. Merece mucho la pena! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mapping wild bee diversity and flower use for an effective conservation of the Doñana biodiversity hotspot
We compiled the first checklist of wild bees in Doñana Protected Area, documenting 385 species, including three vulnerable and one endangered species listed in the Red List. Bee species exhibit dive...
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Desde Canadá a Panamá hay más de 5000 especies de abejas clasificadas en 173 géneros. Se acaba de publicar la segunda edición de The Bee Genera of North and Central America y el pdf completo se puede descargar de este enlace del Smithsonian 🐝 scholarlypress.si.edu/publications... 🐝
🧐 What happens behind the scenes of fieldwork? Our recent campaign, #WildPoshInTheField, took a behind-the-scenes look at sampling carried out last summer by researchers at the @um.es near as part of WP1. 👉 Fieldwork recap: wildposh.eu/news/behind-...
Behind the scenes of WildPosh field work
Our recent social media campaign, #WildPoshInTheField, took followers behind the scenes of fieldwork carried out last summer by researchers at the University of Murcia. The campaign aimed to show the ...
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🐝🌺 Un estudio liderado por la Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) revela que el cambio climático y la cantidad de flores disponibles tienen un mayor impacto en el envejecimiento de las abejas que la urbanización o la contaminación ambiental. 👉 www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...
LinkedIn 🤔 Do you know that there are bee species that eat meat, and some wasps can produce honey? Our next early-career researcher is @andreiaft.bsky.social, a PhD student at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 👉 Read the interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...
Meet the researchers: Andreia Teixeira
Each week, we introduce one of the early-career researchers behind the WildPosh project. Meet the young scientists working to understand and protect wild pollinators across Europe. Andreia Teixeira i...
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WildPosh featured in the documentary "How bumblebees conquered the world"! 📹 A documentary from the French-language YouTube channel Science bestiale traces the evolutionary journey of bees. The documentary features our coordinator Denis Michez and his lab at UMONS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXW...
Comment les bourdons ont conquis le monde [Documentaire]
YouTube video by Science bestiale
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A coalition of 8 EU-funded pollinator projects recently sounded the alarm (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) about pollinator decline across the continent. If Europe fails to stop pollinator loss, it will face a crisis affecting food security and other vital societal functions. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
135 Scientists Warn Europe’s Pollinator Crisis Runs Deeper Than Bees
A coalition of 135 European researchers just published a stark warning about a pollinator crisis that has almost nothing to do with honeybees, and the industries it threatens stretch far beyond your d...
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‼️The WildPosh early-career researcher series is back! Today, we are talking to Milica Radenković - a PhD student at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...
Meet the researchers: Milica Radenković
Each week, we introduce one of the early-career researchers behind the WildPosh project. Meet the young scientists working to understand and protect wild pollinators across Europe. Milica Radenković ...
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🧐Check out or last publication🐝🧬 Our study of the European beewolf highlights a diagnostic challenge: PCR primers for honey bee pathogens can yield false positives in non-target Hymenoptera. We recommend PCR + electrophoresis + sequencing as standard for spillover research. doi.org/10.1007/s135...
Scientific note on the non-specific amplification of honey bee pathogens in a non-target host: the European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) - Apidologie
The European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum Fabricius, 1775) is a solitary wasp that preys on honey bees and has recently expanded its range to the Canary Islands. This study investigates whether P. triangulum could act as a vector for honey bee gut pathogens and evaluates the reliability of their PCR-based detection in non-target hosts. Ninety-four beewolf individuals were screened for microsporidia and trypanosomatids using family and species-specific primers. Amplification was successful for pathogens at family level, but sequencing revealed non-specific amplification of host microsatellite regions. Only in one beewolf individual the pathogen amplicon showed identity with multiple trypanosomatid species, though infection could not be confirmed. These findings highlight the risk of misinterpretation when using primers specific to trypanosomatids and microsporidia to other taxa than honey bees and emphasize the need for sequencing confirmation. Our results underscore methodological challenges in pathogen spillover studies and call for robust diagnostic protocols to avoid false positives and improve pollinator health research.
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Honeybees help with honey production AND crop pollination! However, wild bees also play a vital role in supporting biodiversity and crop production. Protecting managed and wild pollinators is crucial for food stability and biodiversity. #PollinatorRestoration #Honeybees #WildBees #RestPoll
📣EUROPEAN RED LIST OF MOTHS PUBLISHED!📣 A m(amm)oth task - huge congratulations to the team! Spoiler: >3000 species assessed at the European level, 704 of them endemic. Ca. 25% are listed as Data Deficient & 11% threatened with extinction. op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Young researcher at the @um.es performing important tasks for conserving pollinators and securing food 🐝🐝🪰🪰💪🏻💪🏻 @research-um.bsky.social
WildPosh Project@wildposh.eu · 3mo ago🔥It is time for our weekly early-career researcher interview! Today, we are talking to Álvaro Urueña from the University of Murcia. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...
There are loads of insects out there just waiting to be discovered. Let’s have a look! 🦋🐝🐞🦟🦗🐜🪲🪰🪳
Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew research estimates the Earth has 2 to 3x more insects species than previously thought. The true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million. #IPBES This has profound implications for understanding the scale, richness, and future of biodiversity on Earth. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Meet the people shaping the future of pollinator conservation Stay updated, follow our official project account: @butterfly-project.bsky.social and don't miss a single episode of our new mini-video series: “Voices of BUTTERFLY” First episode: Meet Butterfly's Queen Bee: Noa Simón Delso!
Butterfly@butterfly-project.bsky.social · 3mo agoMeet Noa Simón Delso in the first video of our “Voices of BUTTERFLY” series 🦋 Noa works at the interface between science, decision-makers and other actors. She explains how Butterfly treats the human dimension of pollinator decline as one of the project’s central pillars. @beelifeeu.bsky.social
Pollinator crisis explained News in 12 languages on EU scientific White Paper on pollinators (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...): +Danish +Dutch +English +Finish +French +Indonesian +Italian +Norwegian +Polish +Portugese +Russian +Spanish Repost to your national networks butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...
Meet Noa Simón Delso in the first video of our “Voices of BUTTERFLY” series 🦋 Noa works at the interface between science, decision-makers and other actors. She explains how Butterfly treats the human dimension of pollinator decline as one of the project’s central pillars. @beelifeeu.bsky.social
🚀 WildPosh now has an introductory video! Learn more about the project, its objectives, and what it does to protect Europe’s wild pollinators. First animated video developed by @pensoft.net . 🎬 Watch here: youtu.be/8Amsk_dgnCQ?...
Riesgo inminente en Europa si no se frena la pérdida de polinizadores: hoja de ruta para revertir la situación @pdelarua.bsky.social @butterfly-project.bsky.social www.consalud.es/animalcare/s...
Riesgo inminente en Europa si no se frena la pérdida de polinizadores: hoja de ruta para revertir la situación
Esta crisis de los polinizadores surge de una relación disfuncional entre los seres humanos y la naturaleza, según advierte un Libro Blanco desarrollado por ocho consorcios de investigación financiado...
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Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration - white paper from 8 Horizon projects zenodo.org/records/2071...
Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 4mo agoEight EU-funded research consortia warn that Europe risks a crisis if it fails to halt pollinator loss. Their solution: a roadmap to reverse wild pollinator decline and protect managed bees. @butterfly-project.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/eight-eu-fun...
News on our Joint White Paper ***Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies*** in 9 languages: +Dutch +English +Finish +French +Indonesian +Italian +Norwegian +Polish +Spanish Forward widely to your national networks @butterfly-project.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...
Media coverage of Joint White Paper “Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies”
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Media coverage of White Paper on Pollinator Stewardship so far, includes Dutch, Finish, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera... If you are aware of coverage in other languages or items that did more than reproducing the press release, PLEASE SEND ME LINKS
