🐝In addition to English, our Policy Brief is now available in German, Hungarian & Latvian!

These reflect our RestPoll partner countries.
Greek & Ukrainian versions coming very soon!

🐝 A bee with a huge responsibility

The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) helps pollinate strawberries, apples, tomatoes & more.

📚Klein & Fornoff (2025)

🎥 RestPoll partner, Prof. Dr. Sara Diana Leonhardt (TUM) shares her favorite measure for supporting pollinators: pollinator diversity 🐝🦋

#Pollinators #Biodiversity #RestPoll #PollinatorDiversity

What is your favourite measure for pollinators?
Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein shares her favourite measure: hedgerows!🐝🌿

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💡Think you can guess the bee by their scent?
Put your senses to the test and try out our new Bee Scent Quiz👇
restpoll.eu/e-learning/

E-learning - RestPoll Explore pollinators and restoration with our e-learning tools Discover a range of digital and interactive tools designed to deepen your understanding of pollinators and effective restoration measures....

What do bees smell like?

Take the @restpoll.bsky.social bee-scent quiz

#pollinators

restpoll.eu/e-learning/

@naturealexk.bsky.social, coordinator of the @restpoll.bsky.social, presented the project and its objectives at #VALORmeets2026 🐝

VALOR and RestPoll work closely together, strengthening collaboration across projects. 🤝

👉 Check out the RestPoll e-learning platform: restpoll.eu/e-learning/

We need to make sure to bring all tools devoped across EU pollinator projects together.

👉73% of globally traded crops depend on pollinators.
👉36% of global food production depends on pollination.

At VALOR AGM1, @naturealexk.bsky.social presented updates to the crop pollination dependence database and plans for its upcoming publication.

#VALORmeets2026

👉 At #VALORmeets2026, Maureen Page (University of Freiburg) presented the work on identifying key European pollinators, focusing on synthesising current knowledge on the most abundant visitors of crop and wild plants.

She shared plans for data gathering and early ideas for the analysis.

Next presenting at VALOR AGM1 is Carlos Ruiz (University of La Laguna). He reviewed the vulnerability of pollination services across different European biogeographic regions. Work done i scope of Work Package 2: Synthesising knowledge on the role and status of pollination services

#VALORmeets2026

📚Klein, A.-M., & Fornoff, F. (2025). Praxishandbuch Nutzpflanzenbestäubung: Ertragssteigerung durch Förderung der Biodiversität (1. Auflage). Haupt Verlag.

🍎Did you Know? Apples depend on honeybees, wildbees and bumblebees for pollination🍏

Not every striped pollinator is a bee

#hoverflies #pollinators #Syrphidae

🐝 RestPoll partners from the University of Reading are co-designing a pollinator-friendly eco-label and interviewing actors across the food supply chain.

We’re especially looking to speak with:
• Retailers
• Producers

Interested or know someone who might be? Feel free to reach out!

@planbee.bsky.social

Some bees collect pollen by pressing and rubbing their entire bodies against flowers, a behavior scientists classify as body-rubbing pollen collection.

To the human eye, it looks like bees are literally taking a pollen bath!🥰

📚Portman et al. (2019), Journal of Hymenoptera Research

We’re excited to share a new policy brief from the RestPoll project showing what really works to protect pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hoverflies.

This new brief brings together expert knowledge on practical solutions that make a real difference.

📄 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach - Agronomy for Sustainable Development There is growing recognition of agroforestry’s potential to help mitigate and provide resilience to the climate and biodiversity crises. Beyond its environmental benefits, agroforestry can also enhanc...

Hood, A.S.C., Scholes, R.E., Degani, E. et al. Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 46, 20 (2026).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...

#PollinERAexplained: Species Sensitivity Distribution YouTube video by PollinERA project

Do you know what the Species Sensitivity Distribution is? 🧐

In this episode of #PollinERAexplained, Ryszard Laskowski from Jagiellonian University explains a concept central to advancing environmental risk assessment.

Curious? 👉 Watch the full video: youtu.be/-y0WdnrkwDQ?...

Nahaufnahme einer Hummel an weißer Blüte mit Text: „Bestäuberschutz: Empfehlungen für EU-Renaturierungspläne“.

Ein neuer Policy Brief des EU-Projekts RestPoll unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein | @naturealexk.bsky.social gibt Empfehlungen an die EU-Mitgliedstaaten, mit welchen Renaturierungsmaßnahmen sie Bestäuber wie Wildbienen am effektivsten fördern können. ufr.link/renaturierung…

The @safeguard-pollinators.eu wraps up in Brussels this week, but the work to reverse pollinator loss is far from over. 🐝

Explore the Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub (Safe-Hub), developed under the project and set for further growth under @valor-project.eu 👇

#SafeguardFinale #PollinatorResearch

Policy brief "Restoring pollinators in Europe"

Within our EU-funded project RestPoll, we bring together scientific evidence in a new policy brief that identifies the most effective renaturation measures to support...

alexandra-m-klein.com/policy-brief-restoring-p...

Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

This is a publication I believe all ecologists should read and discuss.

How often have you asked yourself: Are we impactful enough in times of multiple environmental crises?

A collaborative effort of #ANdiNa

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This is also important for evidence-based co-adaptive restoration projects.

Do Bumble Bees Sting? And Other Common Questions We get a lot of questions about bumble bees, so we are bringing you answers straight from our many bee experts!

We get a lot of questions about bumble bees, stings, and what to do when discovering a nest. So here are some answers from our experts! 🐝
We’d love to expand this FAQ in the future, so let us know what other questions you have about bumble bees!

Bombus sibiricus

Bumblebees of the Asian steppes - Sibiricobombus - our latest global revision of a bumblebee subgenus out today:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In September 2025, the Cambridge RestPoll team attended the Buzzing for Recovery workshop in Bristol. The event brought together landowners, organisations, volunteers, conservationists and researchers from across the UK, all working to conserve the shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum).