Have you seen this small bee around your fruit trees? The European Orchard Bee (Osmia cornuta) is a prominent early-spring foraging wild bee that visits many fruit trees or shrubs!

🎉RestPoll partners from Freiburg, Germany, have completed their field season for this year's spring and summer. Partners monitored pollinators at implementation sites to assess how these implementations are helping pollinator communities. Thank you for the great work!👏 #FieldWork #RestPoll

Portuguese translation of Joint White Paper Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @agri4pol.eu @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu

Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rumo à salvaguarda dos polinizadores em todas as políticas A incoerência das políticas na UE constitui um importante obstáculo ao restauro dos polinizadores Traduzido do inglês (zenodo.org/records/2071...) por @jloureiro13.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/en/wp-conten...

@butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu @agri4pol.eu #ProPollSoil @davegoulson.bsky.social

Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 4w ago

EU's Nature Restoration Regulation sets a binding target to reverse pollinator decline by 2030 Member States must submit draft national restoration plans by Sept 1, 2026 54 days left... Bring the White Paper on Pollinator Restoration to the attention of your government! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu @agri4pol.eu #ProPollSoil @davegoulson.bsky.social @au.dk Aarhus University News Release 8-Jul-2026 EU researchers warn: Europe risks a pollinator crisis

Jeroen van der Sluijs@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 4w ago

An international team of researchers @butterfly-project.bsky.social is warning that Europe is facing a serious pollinator crisis. A new white paper doi.org/10.5281/zeno... presents 15 concrete recommendations for reversing the decline #pollinators www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Butterflies may be one of the quickest ways to tell if habitat restoration is working. A new study found that restored farm habitats boosted butterfly richness and abundance within a year 🦋 📚 Read more here: Favarin et al. 2026, Restoration Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/rec.70314

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

Breeding Aglais urticae, the small tortoiseshell for @wildposh.eu project. Such hungry caterpillars. #pollinators #pesticides With @naturealexk.bsky.social

Living Lab Meeting on the 12 May included both theory and practice. Thank you Sutter Farm for hosting such an event!

Deutscher Biodiversitätspreis 2026 der Heinz Sielmann Stiftung share.google/hprxBcRYmTVV...

🐝 The @restpoll.bsky.social consortium brings together expertise of #natural & #social #scientists, as well as #NGOs, businesses & ministries to provide society with tools to reverse wild #insect #pollinator declines. 🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 📸 Relationships among work packages.

🐝In addition to English, our Policy Brief is now available in German, Hungarian & Latvian! These reflect our RestPoll partner countries. Greek & Ukrainian versions coming very soon!

🐝 A bee with a huge responsibility The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) helps pollinate strawberries, apples, tomatoes & more. 📚Klein & Fornoff (2025)

🎥 RestPoll partner, Prof. Dr. Sara Diana Leonhardt (TUM) shares her favorite measure for supporting pollinators: pollinator diversity 🐝🦋 #Pollinators #Biodiversity #RestPoll #PollinatorDiversity

What is your favourite measure for pollinators? Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein shares her favourite measure: hedgerows!🐝🌿

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💡Think you can guess the bee by their scent? Put your senses to the test and try out our new Bee Scent Quiz👇 restpoll.eu/e-learning/

What do bees smell like? Take the @restpoll.bsky.social bee-scent quiz #pollinators restpoll.eu/e-learning/

E-learning - RestPoll

Explore pollinators and restoration with our e-learning tools Discover a range of digital and interactive tools designed to deepen your understanding of pollinators and effective restoration measures....

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@naturealexk.bsky.social, coordinator of the @restpoll.bsky.social, presented the project and its objectives at #VALORmeets2026 🐝 VALOR and RestPoll work closely together, strengthening collaboration across projects. 🤝 👉 Check out the RestPoll e-learning platform: restpoll.eu/e-learning/

We need to make sure to bring all tools devoped across EU pollinator projects together.

VALOR Project@valor-project.eu · 4mo ago

📢Day 2 of #VALORmeets2026 is underway! The morning session opened with Bethan Henderson (@unepwcmc.bsky.social), who shared insights from a user needs study on pollinator tools, conducted with @restpoll.bsky.social. She further reviewed the ENCORE tool, including potential future development. 🛠️🐝

👉73% of globally traded crops depend on pollinators. 👉36% of global food production depends on pollination. At VALOR AGM1, @naturealexk.bsky.social presented updates to the crop pollination dependence database and plans for its upcoming publication. #VALORmeets2026

👉 At #VALORmeets2026, Maureen Page (University of Freiburg) presented the work on identifying key European pollinators, focusing on synthesising current knowledge on the most abundant visitors of crop and wild plants. She shared plans for data gathering and early ideas for the analysis.

Next presenting at VALOR AGM1 is Carlos Ruiz (University of La Laguna). He reviewed the vulnerability of pollination services across different European biogeographic regions. Work done i scope of Work Package 2: Synthesising knowledge on the role and status of pollination services #VALORmeets2026

🍎Did you Know? Apples depend on honeybees, wildbees and bumblebees for pollination🍏

Not every striped pollinator is a bee #hoverflies #pollinators #Syrphidae

🐝 RestPoll partners from the University of Reading are co-designing a pollinator-friendly eco-label and interviewing actors across the food supply chain. We’re especially looking to speak with: • Retailers • Producers Interested or know someone who might be? Feel free to reach out!

Some bees collect pollen by pressing and rubbing their entire bodies against flowers, a behavior scientists classify as body-rubbing pollen collection. To the human eye, it looks like bees are literally taking a pollen bath!🥰 📚Portman et al. (2019), Journal of Hymenoptera Research

Hood, A.S.C., Scholes, R.E., Degani, E. et al. Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 46, 20 (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s135...

Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach - Agronomy for Sustainable Development

There is growing recognition of agroforestry’s potential to help mitigate and provide resilience to the climate and biodiversity crises. Beyond its environmental benefits, agroforestry can also enhanc...

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Do you know what the Species Sensitivity Distribution is? 🧐 In this episode of #PollinERAexplained, Ryszard Laskowski from Jagiellonian University explains a concept central to advancing environmental risk assessment. Curious? 👉 Watch the full video: youtu.be/-y0WdnrkwDQ?...

#PollinERAexplained: Species Sensitivity Distribution

YouTube video by PollinERA project

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