Tetragonisca fiebrigi
(Buenos Aires 🇦🇷)

#bees #native #pollination #argentina

Spring is coming at the @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social campus!

An #apismellifera visiting #trifoliumnigrescens reminds us how #urbanbiodiversity supports vital #ecosystemservices: From #pollination to healthier #greenspaces, even tiny interactions help keep city ecosystems thriving.

🌱🧪🌷🐝

The blueberry flowering season is almost OVER! 💮

Bees are making the most of the last open flowers 🐝

Blooming was unusually SHORT — leaving very little time for pollination... Will it be enough for a good fruit set? 🫐

Results in a few weeks. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #Blueberry #Pollination #Bee

A stinking yellow Celandine flower shines in the sunshine. A tiny wild bee sits on the anthers and has pollen on its body.

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) in #Sussex with a tiny solitary bee (~1cm long).

#bees
#pollination
#pollinators
#entomology

The blueberry bushes are still in full bloom! 🫐

This week, bumblebees OUTNUMBER honeybees in the fields 🐝

Data collection continues - every observation matters! 🔎

#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Pollinator #Bee #BumbleBee

Conceptual diagram of touch-sensitive stigma movements in Mazus miquelii. Higher temperatures accelerate both temporary closure and reopening. whereas permanent (irreversible) closure tracks pollination progress: greater pollen deposition and faster pollen-tube growth accelerate permanent closure, while pollen-tube position is positively associated with the time to permanent closure. Pollen source shows no detectable effect.

Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii

New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination

The blueberry bushes are still flowering!

Bees are busy buzz-pollinating the flowers.

Curious to see how this will translate into fruit set this season...

💮 +🐝 = 🫐🫐 ?

#Ecology #Pollination #BuzzPollination #Blueberry #Flower #Bee #Bumblebee #FruitSet

Why This Plant Drops Its Fruit Full of Beetle Babies What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles survive.

"Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits with Heterhelus beetle larvae, allowing their survival too. This interaction changes how scientists understand the balance between plants and their pollinating insects."
🌱🍃🪲 #JapaneseRedElder #Beetles #Pollination #Interactions

Walking through the blueberry fields today — The bushes are FINALLY in bloom! 🌼 — The bees are buzzing everywhere 🐝 — It's incredible to see.

Flowering is incredibly LATE this year... a consequence of truly bizarre weather!

#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Phenology

Spring is right around the corner and the beautiful rotten smell of skunk cabbage is in the air! A fascinating local example of sapromyophily - flowers that smell stinky to attract fly (and beetle) pollinators. #diptera #pollination

Sunflower Power

“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” — Vincent van Gogh

#BecauseILikeFlowers #TheArtEclectic #sunflower #bee #pollination #gardenlife #botanicalart #hopeful #alive

Air pollution distracts insects from pollination and sex

Air pollution distracts insects from pollination and sex
->National Geographic | More on "Air pollution disrupts insect pollination" at BigEarthData.ai | #Insect #AirPollution #Pollination

Butterflies pollinate flowers, while feeding themselves with nectar.

Saw butterflies pollinating these colorful #flowers in a #butterfly farm in Bohol, Philippines.

#plant #flora #pollination

Why plants may bloom earlier: Tiny dew droplets are triggering early flowering in plants Plants around the world are flowering earlier in the year, a trend attributed to climate change. But there could be another hitherto hidden trigger. Scientists led by researchers at the Chinese Academ...

So that is why. Changed climate, more water in the air... 🧪
phys.org/news/2026-02... #agriculture #climatechange #elnina #dew #agriculture #gardening #pollination

seven photos of bright flowering vegetable and fruit plants and one with a bumble bee collecting pollen

Bees are great at spotting bright flowers especially yellow because their vision is adapted to UV light, which makes yellow hues stand out vividly. This helps them find nectar-rich blooms efficiently, boosting pollination & keeping our ecosystems thriving. 🌼🐝 #Bees #Pollination

Photo of a bee pollinating a Texas Red Bud. A blue sky is in the background.

Photo of a bee pollinating a Texas Red Bud blossom. A bare tree is in the bottom right corner, there is a blue sky behind.

Photo of several white blossoms of a Mexican Plum. Branches and other blooms are in the background.

Spring is starting here in #DFW! #nature #photography #flowers #bee #pollination

The garden is giving again

Pure joy! ☆

#nature #spring #outdoors #bloomscrolling #purplefriday #plants #gardening #pollination #bees

Graphical Abstract: A 4-year survey of Cremastra appendiculata var. variabilis pollinators was conducted using a commercially available sensor camera throughout the flowering period. Additionally, sensor cameras and interval photography were used simultaneously to compare the number of videos capturing bumblebees. The results showed that using a commercially available sensor camera effectively captures flower-visiting bumblebees, with only a small proportion of visits potentially missed.

#OpenAccess
Effectiveness of infrared sensor camera monitoring for detecting #pollinator visits to Cremastra appendiculata var. variabilis in a temperate forest in Central Japan

Masahiko Shimada et al
🐝👉https://x.gd/tnA23

bumblebee queen/ camera trap/ orchid #pollination

Effects of drone-assisted artificial pollination on fruit set and characteristics in Asian pear The ‘Niitaka’ pear relies heavily on artificial pollination, owing to its lack of viable pollen; however, drone-based approaches remain underexplored. This study compared drone-assisted pollen dusting and suspension methods with conventional artificial and natural pollination...

Effects of drone-assisted artificial #pollination on #fruit set and characteristics in Asian pear.
To read this article in JHSB 101:2, visit: doi.org/10.1080/1462...

#AsianPear #Drones #Niitaka #Pollen #Pyrus

We’ve identified all the branches to study 🌿. Now it’s time to count every flower — buds, fully open flowers, and faded flowers — ALL of them! 🌸

🔍 To obtain an accurate estimate, we’ll repeat these counts several times during flowering!

#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Phenology

Flower traits evolution in a bird‐pollinated genus Brandisia (Orobanchaceae) from Asia Brandisia (Orobanchaceae), an Asian hemiparasitic genus, shows striking floral divergence. All species are bird-pollinated, mainly by generalist nectarivores such as white-eyes. Variation in floral c...

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Chen et al.'s🔥new work on the #evolution of #flower traits in the bird-pollinated Brandisia advances our understanding of how #bird #pollinators shape floral diversification.
doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#evolution #systematics #pollination

Our new paper is out! Here’s the lay summary. #Ecology #Pollination #AnimalBehavior #SocialInformation #FloralEcology #BandwagonEffects #Bumblebees

Nature's Balance. Hummingbirds, Other Pollinators and Biodiversity with Prof. Ainhoa Magrach — SciLux Listen to full episode :

I've already discussed climate change quite a bit on SciLux. But today's show also focuses on solutions. Discover it yourself by listening to Prof. @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social from Spain's BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change.
#biodiversity #pollination

www.scilux.eu/episodes/hum...

International Beekeeping Conference - SIANI The event will include three conference days followed by two days post-conference activities. The program will focus on pollination, beekeeping, and apitherapy.

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Join the International Beekeeping Conference!

The conference will focus on #apitherapy and bee products, bee biology and health, #pollination and bee flora, #beekeeping and livelihood.

WHEN? April 6–10
WHERE? Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal

More information:

Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) - Apidologie Females of all Monoeca species have strong hooked bristles on the mesosomal venter, leg bases, and metasomal sterna (2–4), which suggests that they could be related to pollen collection; however, this...

🧪 Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bees #pollination #morphology

Magnolias are so ancient they're pollinated by beetles — because bees didn't exist yet Before bees, there were beetles

"Spring arrives, and with it, the magnolias. Their pink and white blooms unfurl in many parts of the world, but if you look closely, you might see a beetle land on the flowers — not a bee."
🌱🪷🪲 #Magnolias #Beetles #Pollination #Biology #Nature #Science #IsItSpringYet

By @mareacaspica.bsky.social 👏🏼

February bee in rosemary flowers today, Sedona, Arizona. #photography #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #flower #flowers #pollen #pollination #pollinator #bee #beesbein

Fruit set — the % of flowers that produce fruit — is a key indicator of pollination quality 🐝➡️🌼➡️🫐
But how do we measure it?

Step 1: select and mark branches for monitoring.
One branch per bush, with at least 30 buds!

#Ecology #Pollination #Agriculture #Experimentation #Blueberry

Blueberry flowering season is near! 🌼🌼🐝🐝
We installed hundreds of blueberry bushes in pots to test how field spatial organization impacts fruit production.
BEFORE / AFTER — the difference is striking!
Next step: marking the branches we’ll monitor.
#Ecology #Pollination #Agriculture #Experimentation