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🔥off the press! Our new paper in Royal Society Publishing: “Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival” We tested whether pollen from heat stressed host plants has negative effects on wild bees. 🧵1/11 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Where have all the insects gone? My take. youtu.be/Io96wApYgRQ via YouTube

Donald Trump, yesterday, claimed that Don Jr. has a great wife. Don Jr. isn't married. Is that dementia? Or is that only dementia when a Democrat does it?

10 a day keeps the doctor away! Bumblebees show remarkable consistency in their foraging breadth, regardless of species, site or season🐝What could be driving this behaviour? More in our new paper: rb.gy/gtrxvp with @NdeVere Ian Vaughan Laura Jones Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence

This is now published in Insect Conservation and Diversity in open access doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… We proposed a correction to the article of Müller et al.: weather conditions do not explain long term decline in @insect biomass, but explain the inter-annual variability

🚀 We're offering a fully funded PhD to study honeybee effects on plant/pollinator abundances, interactions, & wild bee gut microbiomes. Apply here: info.bc3research.org/2024/07/09/pre… 🌼🐝📊 @BC3_research Luis Javier Chueca European Research Council (ERC)

Increasing agricultural specialisation reduces diversity of crop-pollinator interaction networks in smallholder farms, which increases risks of pollination service disruption. Another interesting read of Timberlake et al. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Zeer hoge piekregens en lokale wateroverlast in meerdere zones in Vlaanderen deze ochtend. In Heverlee om 6u15 bv. werd 33 mm in 15 minuten gemeten, d.i. volgens de statistieken bij de hoogste meetwaarden op zo'n korte duur de laatste 20 jaar ergens in Vlaanderen.

Every fascist movement in history has been backed by plutocrats. But until recently, they tended to keep quiet about it.

📢New review on cherry pollination! 💡We suggest bridging the gap btwn ecology, entomology, farm management & horticulture for cherry production management tinyurl.com/2nfs9zs8 Super nice collaboration of Maxime Eeraerts, @osterman_julia, Zeus Mateos-Fierro & @cfe_FLOWerLab

📢 Exciting post-doc role at the University of Bristol working on pollinators and pesticides in the Channel Islands. Great research group and a fascinating project - more details below! jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ304/pos…

NEW PAPER: We report, for the first time, the scale of how many different pesticides are on sale in the UK and Ireland. Nearly 2,500 different pesticides are on sale in the UK, from 266 different active ingredients. With Dara Stanley doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.…

Environmental scientist @osterman_julia reviewed research about cherry pollination, together with researchers Zeus Mateos-Fierro and Maxime Eeraerts. “We show how multiple aspects are directly or indirectly affecting sweet and sour cherry pollination." > tinyurl.com/3sdf3rfm

🥳 New paper from Forest & Nature Lab Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent ILVO : Lieke Moereels et al characterised the temperate food forestry in Flanders (Belgium) in Springerlink Agroforestry Systems rdcu.be/dSWOo

Bioblitz Goal Reached: 2000 species at ForNaLab! 🎉 We’ve recorded 2000 species in the Aelmoeseneiebos! 🦋🐞🌼 A huge thank you to everyone who contributed! We’re excited to see how many more we can add by 2025!🌱✨ 👉 waarnemingen.be/bioblitz/12884… Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent #BioBlitz

My Forest & Nature Lab colleagues made it in Science Magazine -> on the cover!!! Super proud of them! 😎

Chabert, S., Eeraerts, M., DeVetter, L.W. et al. Intraspecific crop diversity for enhanced crop pollination success. A review. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 44, 50 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s13593… #OpenAccess #CropPollination #CrossPollination #FieldDesign #InsectForagingBehavior

We wish everyone a very happy new year!✨ 📢2025 means change: we are moving to Bluesky! Bluesky corresponds more with our core values at FNL. We will be softly transitioning: posting increasingly on Bluesky and decreasingly here Ready to follow? bsky.app/profile/fornal…