📢New #SafeguardResearch alert!
Safeguard researchers published a study assessing competition for resources between managed honey bees and wild pollinators.
👉 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In intensively farmed landscapes, pollinators struggle to find consistent resources.
Winter oilseed rape (OSR) can provide a temporary fix.
But what happens to wild bees in nearby habitats once flowering ends?
Learn more in this #SafeguardResearch: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐝 A comprehensive reference collection of DNA barcodes for Iberian bees has been published in association with the Safeguard project - and it represents a significant resource for pollinator researchers.
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A Safeguard research team from @inrae-france.bsky.social, SLU and @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social collaborated on a #SafeguardResearch examining the worldviews and values of key stakeholders involved in wild pollinator conservation. 🐝
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#SafeguardResearch from 2025 provides an update of a checklist of bees from metropolitan France - the first such update since 1995.
The revision adds 150 species and removes 32, reflecting both new distributional records and taxonomic updates.
www.osmia-journal-hymenoptera.com/osmia-13-1.h...
Pollination service models have long assumed that nest-site availability is the primary regulator of bee populations. Still, a #SafeguardResearch from 2024 suggests floral resource competition may matter just as much.
👉 Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Floral resource limitation is a complicated phenomenon influenced by many factors.
A #SafeguardResearch from 2024 compares nectar limitation in spring in an area where a previous study showed severe resource limitations in summer.
👉 Read the full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
How does land use affect the structure and resilience of pollinator networks?
A 2024 #SafeguardResearch delivers insights on plant-pollinator networks in intensively managed agricultural and urban landscapes.🌼
👉 Read the full study: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌱 How do habitat size and quality influence pollinator diversity in human-dominated landscapes?
A 2025 #SafeguardResearch examines pollinator conservation strategies in human-altered environments.
👉 Read the full study: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
What are the reasons why people choose to protect pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies? 🐝 🦋
A 2024 #SafeguardResearch examines the factors that influence the behaviour of people in rural and urban areas across 3 European countries.
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A 2024 #SafeguardResearch examines how butterfly communities respond to intensively managed agricultural landscapes. 🌾
The findings emphasise the importance of forest habitats within monoculture-dominated agricultural landscapes.
👉 Read here: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🦠 A new #SafeguardResearch examines how viruses spread between managed honey bees and wild pollinators - and the results challenge some common assumptions.
👉 Read the full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#EUPollinators #honeybees #wildpollinators
In a first-of-its-kind #SafeguardResearch, a team from Wageningen University evaluates the ecological effectiveness of a landscape-level collaborative conservation initiative targeting wild bees. 🐝
👉 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#EUPollinators #bees #conservation
🌼Sown wildflower plantings can help counter pollinator decline by restoring key resources. A #SafeguardResearch looks into how higher flower diversity supports bees & butterflies - especially in flower‑poor seasons.
👉 Read the full study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐝 A #SafeguardResearch takes a closer look at plant-pollinator networks by focusing on network motifs - the repeated patterns that make up larger ecological systems.
👉 Read the full study: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#EUPollinators
A new species of pantaloon bee, Dasypoda (Heterodasypoda) radchenkoi, was discovered in the limestone mountains of south-western Spain in 2023.
Learn more in this week’s #SafeguardResearch: doi.org/10.47446/OSM...
#EUPollinators #BeeDiscovery #EndemicSpecies #Heterodasypoda
🏵️ This week’s #SafeguardResearch examines the distribution, impacts, and traits of the invasive ornamental Gaillardia aristata (great blanketflower).
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.83.97325
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Wild #pollinators are essential for global food production but are overlooked in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
A 2023 #SafeguardResearch presents a set of generic characterisation factors that allow translating land use into impacts on wild pollinator abundance.
doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05311
Invasive species are among the main culprits of biodiversity loss.
This week’s #SafeguardResearch explores the impacts of invasive plant species on #pollinator communities. 🐝
🔎 Explore findings: doi.org/10.1111/icad.12640
A 2023 #SafeguardResearch looks into the effects of extensive mowing and annual flower sowing on vegetation, floral resources, and #pollinators in Hungary.
👉 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s11252-023-01420-1
🔍 A 2023 #SafeguardResearch offers a framework for understanding floral resource availability in terms of temporal, spatial & functional structure.
The study highlights the importance of viewing flowers as food to better understand competition among #pollinators.
🔎 doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06651
Safeguard study maps European wild #pollinators and centralises information on their geographic distribution. 🗺️
📊 Results are important for keeping conservation priorities in Europe up to date.
👉 Read the full #SafeguardResearch: doi.org/10.1111/icad.12680
A 2023 #SafeguardResearch investigates how individual seed set in two wild plant species in herbaceous agroecological infrastructure is affected by spatio-temporal heterogeneity in floral resources and plant–pollinator interactions across multiple ecological scales 🌱
🔎 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
This week, explore a 2023 #SafeguardResearch investigating the mate-guarding investment of Clouded Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne) #butterflies 🦋
🔎 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
This week, discover a global meta-analysis of the effects of animal #pollination on food crop quality 🌾
📊 The #SafeguardResearch shows #pollinators improve fruit & vegetable appearance and shelf life, while having smaller effects on nutrition.
Read more in the study: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New #SafeguardResearch investigates the effectiveness of urban pollinator-promoting interventions across Europe 🐝
The study examined whether pollinator-promoting interventions have positive effects on vegetation, floral resources & a broad range of #pollinator groups.
🔎 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
📚 #SafeguardResearch presents a systematic map methodology to catalogue and evaluate #pollinator tools in agricultural landscapes.
👉 This work will support researchers, managers & policymakers in choosing effective tools for #PollinatorProtection.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
A 2023 #SafeguardResearch investigates whether environmental conditions favouring #pollinators are positively associated with the provision of multiple ecosystem services across 3 habitats 🐝🌱
Read the study here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
📚 #SafeguardResearch presents updated distribution maps of #bumblebees in Hungary 🇭🇺
The paper, co-written by partner Miklós Sárospataki from RCISD, finds that while 7 species showed increasing frequency, 3 other species are recommended for protection by law in Hungary. 📝
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
📚 A 2022 #SafeguardResearch investigated age-related changes in body mass and thorax width in a natural Clouded Apollo #ButterflyPopulation. The results showed sexual differences in the rate of #PhenotypicSenescence, with body size declining nonlinearly over time.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
