Edina Török

Turning cities into havens for bees: #UrbanBEE deploys solitary bee hotels across cities across Africa and Europe, blending urban biodiversity research with citizen science to understand and promote pollinator populations and environmental custodianship. #BiodivNBS
www.biodiversa.eu/2025/04/08/u...

Pollinators are disappearing.
Most bees are solitary. They don’t live in hives, but they quietly pollinate fruits, vegetables, and wild plants that sustain us. Projects like UrbanBEE show how small actions matter, have a look at what they are doing and sign up to save the Bee's!

I’m thrilled to share the launch of the UrbanBEE website! 🐝🌍 Check it out at www.myurbanbee.com. This first month has been intense, but we’ve already connected with many citizen science enthusiasts—and distributed 30 bee hotels in Turin! Excited to see what’s next! 🚀💛 #UrbanBEE #CitizenScience #Bees

NEW EVENT! Plant–Pollinator Interactions Underpin the SDGs 🏵️

Explore how pollinators support food security, health, climate resilience & biodiversity, and why their protection matters - With Professor @jeffollerton.bsky.social on MAY 26th 🌎 🧪

Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980275133...

With our guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland due mid-Feb 2026 here is the 1st of 9 great places to see an amazing range of flies. Pre-pub offer runs until 31 Jan bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
@rdimond.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Strong #diel variation in the activity of #insect taxa sampled by #Malaise traps
doi.org/10.1111/een.70059

#EntoMethods #InsectSampling #InsectMonitoring
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Wild about Gardens campaign asks us all to become hoverfly heroes | The Wildlife Trusts Humble hoverfly needs our help, say Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts

The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety are championing hoverflies! Finally the light is shining on the Diptera, highlighting the pollinating adults, & the predatory/decomposer larvae within Syrphidae

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social

A wasp-mimic Drone fly (Monoceromyia trinotata) for #insectthursday.
Kalagarh Tiger Reserve, Aug 2025.

#macroPhotography #macrohour #ThePhotoHour #natgeoyourshot #Himalayas #nature #entomology #biodiversity #Nikon #insectencounter #niffeature2025 @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Processing the contents of a vacuum sampling session. Copyright Nigel Jones

Learn more about #diptera Funding available for Summer field meeting 2026 #fieldcraft #entomology #pollinators #foodwebs #detritivores
Application deadline is 5th Jan. Email enquiries@dipterists.org.uk
@britentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉
We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳
➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177

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🌸 Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators 👇

📖 : buff.ly/HIu8R7Y

Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient High-yielding forage grasslands frequently comprise low species diversity and receive high inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. To investigate multispecies mixtures as an alternative strategy, the 26-site i...

Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Locomotion Reveals Contrasting Responses in Body Mass‐Scaling of Metabolic Rates Between Winged and Wingless Arthropods We test how activity and locomotor mode affect metabolic scaling in arthropods. Only winged insects show increased scaling with activity, likely due to flight-related thermal and biomechanical factor...

Flying changes how metabolism scales with body mass –> NEW META-ANALYSIS of insects and spiders in Ecology Letters with @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social, H. Tan, A. Hirst and D. Atkinson

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Small fields, big benefits: But only with semi-natural habitats nearby Pollinators, like bumblebees, are essential for agriculture, yet they’re declining due to landscape simplification and habitat loss. In this blog post, Riho Marja and colleagues tell us more about …

Small fields, big benefits: But only with semi-natural habitats nearby 🌱🌎

New blog post explores the effect of field size on Bumble bee populations in Austria and Hungary 🐝🧪

Read more 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/10/s...

Join me at the Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 14th January 2026 – Free Registration Now Open! At a time when the UK’s wildlife is under increasing pressure, the everyday spaces we manage—especially gardens—are becoming ever more important. Although interest in wildlife-friendly gardening ha…

The UK’s #wildlife is under increasing pressure, and #gardens are becoming ever more important.
That’s exactly why the Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium has become such a valuable (& free!) annual event.

More details here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/12/10/j...
#pollinators #mammals #fungi #ponds

A step-by-step protocol and guide for cavity-nesting Hymenoptera sampling and data collection using trap ne... This step-by-step protocol details the production, deployment, and processing of trap nests, a sampling tool for cavity-nesting Hymenoptera that enables the collection of detail...

8 years ago, I started working with cavity-nesting Hymenopterans using the trap-nest method. Based on Hungarian projects and these experiences, we compiled a practical protocol for researchers who are using trap nests for the first time
🔗 dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.ewov11znovr2/v2

HYMATHON 2025 starts in less than 27 hours!

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What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

The file with the final figures is finally finished! Sadly the stochastic map is way too high fidelity for the publication - but if you'd like the high resolution PDF of that figure to make a nice poster, here's the link! therusselllab.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

‼️ Discover the WildPosh promotional toolkit!

A set of materials that introduces WildPosh is now available. These resources help partners introduce the project and its objectives at conferences, talks, and workshops.

Designed by @pensoft.net.

👉 Explore the toolkit: wildposh.eu/news/get-kno...

Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines - Nature Ecology & Evolution Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...

One more piece of evidence, on a growing pile, that insects are in decline.

"...the general species turnover and biomass trends emphasize ongoing arthropod community simplification, and that even common species may be increasingly under threat."

🪲🪳🧪🌍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Educational comic explaining IPBES across four panels. Top panel shows a landscape with joined hands rising above it, illustrating global cooperation. Second panel features Earth with red bands around it, comparing IPBES to IPCC. Third panel shows IPBES activities through icons: a lightbulb for assessments, a hand for policy support, and a person with a megaphone for communication. Bottom panel depicts three superhero-styled figures representing different ways to interact with IPBES. Includes logos and artist credit for Michaël Olbrechts.

🤔 What is @ipbes.net?

We strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services, ensuring that global environmental decision making is informed by the best available knowledge!

Illustration by Michaël Olbrechts 🌍🧪

www.biodiversity.be/4128/

I attended the SCAPE Conference for the first time. The atmosphere and the spirit were wonderful! It was inspiring to be surrounded by researchers who share the same passion for pollinators.
I finally met my SEPPI project colleagues in person after many online meetings. Hope to meet again next year!

Native insect species should be selected for classroom rearings Rearing insects in the school classroom can build positive attitudes towards insects among schoolchildren, which is becoming increasingly important as insect populations decline. Identified frequent...

Rearing insects in class is an excellent science education tool, but using non-native insects can lead to ethical and environmental issues. Native insects should be prioritised! Great paper exploring this overlooked issue #RESInsectConsDiv 🌏🧪
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Not so fast! Flowers put the brakes on buzzing bees Mario Vallejo-Marín, Anna Lundgren This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Pollination is a mutually beneficial partnership between plants…

📰Published📰Not so fast! Flowers put the brakes on buzzing bees🐝

buff.ly/j0bHqi5

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Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.

Interesting development - $50 million for "polar bear conservation" in Greenland.

My articles about how some conservation NGO projects are not what they seem -
www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-...
show how this will play out
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A Note from Our CEO: Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall Photo: Katherine Holland Dear Friend, I’m reaching out with profound sadness – and with gratitude for a life well lived. As you may have seen, Dr. Jane Goodall has passed away at the age of 91. We’ve ...

"You shared her refusal to give up, and that meant the world to her.

It means the world to our team, too. We have been inundated with heartfelt messages, and we are so grateful for your kindness and your support – and your determination to carry Jane's mission forward."

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Using total abundance as a proxy for wild bee species richness: A practical tool for non‐experts The use of a simple but effective proxy could be an important starting point for the expansion of wild bee monitoring initiatives at the regional scale, particularly given the growing involvement of ....

#Publication Our paper, co-authored by @edinatorok.bsky.social, Robi, and Péter, and led by Lorenzo Marini, has been published in the Journal of Applied Ecology under the title "Using total abundance as a proxy for wild bee species richness: A practical tool for non-experts." doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Finally read the abstract for www.nature.com/articles/s41... and umm wow some bombshells there in terms of "what is a species even"!

"We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."