#Bumblebees

Matt Patches

misterpatches

Seeing a lot of Bean Dad takes. As the father of a daughter, I feel the need to chime in. 1/x We can't bust heads like we used to, but

Tom Timberlake

TomTimberlake92

What limits #bumblebee populations on farmland? Our new paper in @JAppliedEcology finds that bumblebee colony density is strongly limited by a late summer nectar gap and the cover of rural

Thomas Oliver 🐝

thomasroliveruk

Save the wild bees!#Scicomm #CommSciMedia #SaveTheWildBees Bees are responsible for pollinating 1/3 of the food eaten globally. Despite their importance, they are suffering a huge decline in population numbers. People

Harry Siviter

harrysiviter

Hi Robert – Always happy to chat about our results. For the future trying to start a ‘civil discussion’ by commenting on our ‘flawed results’ might not be the best

Scot Mathieson

scot_nature_boy

Big natureboy shout out to @StirUni in lockdown letting the campus grasslands flourish largely uncut, other than a few verges at entrances. Looks the most beautiful it’s been in the

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

msbellows

Imagine murder hornets were spreading across the U.S.Imagine murder hornets had stung several million of people.Imagine a million murder hornet victims had been hospitalized.Imagine 123,000 Americans had died of murder

Gay Jai'buir Djarin Fett they/he/mando 🖤

Mandawhorelian

30% of our food comes from pollinators & I want to do an education thread about the native bees who are important & often left out of save the bees

Bastiaan Brak

bastiaan_brak

New #pavementplants find for me: Early Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea) Houttuynia cordata escaping from back garden #pavementplants Apple-of-Peru (Nicandra physalodes) #pavementplants It can hardly get any better than this for #pavementplants

Barnaby Smith

BarnabySmithUK

A (better organised) thread. My evidence based thoughts on wildlife NGOs using biological recording data to campaign - a response to the recent (brilliant - read them!) threads from @kitenet

Sean M Joyce

SeanMJoyce1

Random fact thread.Feel free to add any that are true. The loudest creature on the planet is the Sperm whale which can "click" at 236 decibels.Some researchers believe they can

CoastWEB

coastwellbeing

#DYK that around 40% of the people that live in Wales don’t know what a #saltmarsh is, and that only 37% have ever knowingly visited these coastal environments? Despite this

Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative

collieryspoil

Sharing the love for #invertebrates this #valentinesday2021, starting with Clarke's mining-bee (Andrena clarkella). This solitary bee is among the earliest to emerge in spring and is just one of over

ainsley🫀

ainsleyikes

the honey industry harms bees & the environment a thread: as a vegan, i hear it all the time: “why don’t vegans eat honey???” or, even worse, “eating honey helps

Natasha Loder

natashaloder

As the end of the year drew near I wondered: what *else* happened in science besides covid-19? So I got in touch with @ScienceMagazine, @nature, @CellCellPress, @ElsevierNews and asked: what

Evolutionary Applications

EvolAppJournal

The Special Issue “Evolution in Urban Environments” is online! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524571/2021/14/1edited by L. Miles @lindsay_s_miles, E. Carlen @E_Carlen, K. Winchell @Kmwinchell, and M. Johnson @evoecolab #conservat

Ben Phillips

ben_phi11ips

Road verges can provide valuable habitats for insect pollinators such as bees, butterflies & beetles. But does pollution from roads/traffic make verges less good for pollinators? Our new paper tackles

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