Triest en enorm zorgwekkend! Ze zijn een beetje de kanaries in de koolmijn he. En de graslandvlinders doen het nog eens vele malen erger dan 'de gemiddelde vlinder' => daling van 60% tussen 1991 en 2025!! Onvoorstelbaar snelle afname. www.vlaanderen.be/inbo/indicat...
Number of butterflies decreased with 38% in Flanders since 1991, especially grassland butterflies have a hard time: vrtnws.be/p.7n6kMkJxp
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Overigens is er in Vlaanderen momenteel een ongelooflijk overschot aan dat ene aardappelras... Om de paar dagen is er wel een dergelijk bericht in Vlaamse media www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Pine Hoverfly on a branch
RSPB and Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms team members looking at a rot hole
Volunteers doing pine hoverfly surveys in forest
Close up of Pine Hoverfly larvae
Massive milestone for Pine Hoverflies 🪰 🎉
Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms have now released over 30,000 Pine Hoverflies in the Cairngorms National Park: www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/new....
Thanks to the RIC partners, volunteers and landowners this threatened species can have a brighter future 💪
Great pic!
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
During the time of the Israeli military’s attack on Qasmieh bridge, the bridge was the main access point for civilians in southern Lebanon to food and other humanitarian aid. Governments should signal to Israel that they will not risk complicity in war crimes by immediately suspending arms sales.
The new Massive Attack x Tom Waits track and video are worth a listen and watch.
Northern Brown Argus butterfly on a thistle and headline 50 years of butterfly monitoring data reveal specialist species disappearing across UK
Pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly on bluebells
Extraordinary dataset of 44 million+ records of UK #butterflies collected by 782,000 volunteers in the past 50 years shows many species are in long-term decline eg Pearl-bordered Fritillary.
@ukbms.bsky.social is run by @savebutterflies.bsky.social, UKCEH, @btobirds.bsky.social, and JNCC.
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Thanks to Sander Bot for sharing a new (and very well-illustrated) key to Cheilosia hoverflies in Europe - looking forward to trying it out www.researchgate.net/publication/... #flies #diptera @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼
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We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇
New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
On my way home after 2&1/2weeks in N Vietnam. More than 230 #butterfly species seen, like this common windmill, Byasa polyeuctes. That'll be a lot of fun checking pictures in the next few weeks!
Onze administrateur-generaal Hilde Eggermont is te gast in de nieuwste aflevering van Paaiplaats, de podcast van Starling: een boeiende aflevering voor iedereen die het INBO beter wil leren kennen en met ons ons 20-jarig bestaan vieren.
Beluister hier: bit.ly/423Xle3
Graph that show that, in absolute numbers, legal immigration has gone down even more than “illegal” immigration under Trump.
It was never just about “illegal” immigration, let alone about just “illegal criminals”. This is a white supremacist project!
GB hectad distribution map for Argiope bruennichi from the new SRS Atlas
GB hectad distribution map for Erigone welchi from the new SRS Atlas
Our new Atlas of UK spider, harvestmen and pseudoscorpion records is now online at britishspiders.org.uk/atlas. It gives access to 1.6 million records and is constantly updated with data submitted and verified via irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Yesterday Israel bombed an ambulance in Lebanon, killing paramedic Hassan Badawi
Over the last two & a half years Israel systematically targeted healthcare workers in Gaza, murdering hundreds, and the failure of the world to take action means Israel is free to do it again.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
Our partners at ZERYNTHIA are calling on the Canary Island government to protect the endemic Pieris cheiranthi which is in the brink of extinction. They have our full support
Ik ben vlinders aan het kijken in Vietnam... ping @ukbutterflies.bsky.social: ever seen an aberration like this? Like an extreme ab. aureoflavescens?
What if we could read the DNA of every butterfly and moth species in Europe? 🦋
That’s our goal: Sequencing ~11,000 Lepidoptera genomes to understand how they evolved, how they adapt, and how we can protect them🌎.
Interview led by our hub @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social 🧬:
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De lange arm van Trump bereikt Nederlandse publicatie: hoofdstuk over diversiteit geschrapt
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