Conference poster. It provides information on the dates, location, organising institutions and a QR code for accessing the website. Source: Congress organisers
Last week, some #INCSTEP members participated in the XXI Iberian Entomology Congress.
The focus this year was on #pollinators! 🪰🐝🦋
Our initiative presented two virtual posters and two oral contributions! 🎓
#NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU
Robert J. Wilson stands with a hot cup of tea in front of his poster, 'Developing a National Reference Collection for Pollinating Insects in Spain'. Source: R. J. Wilson
A general view of the Congress's poster room. Source: R. J. Wilson
Hey! How are you coping with the post-holiday blues? We're ready for anything! 🏁
Take a look at @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social contribution to #Ento25 in Glasgow. It's another chance to show off our progress on the #INCSTEP reference collection!
#NameItToSaveIt 🐝🪰🦋
Naming it Apis mellifera reminds us that taxonomy isn’t just labels—it’s how we understand and conserve life. 🌱🐝
#Biodiversity #Taxonomy #Science #NameItToSaveIt
👀 Fun fact: Apis mellifera was named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae. He called it mellifera (“honey-bearing”), though mellifica (“honey-making”) would’ve been more accurate. He later noted this, but the original name stuck under zoological rules.
#Biodiversity #Taxonomy #NameItToSaveIt
🍯🐝It’s Apis mellifera — a tireless honey producer, expert pollinator, and a keystone for biodiversity. It lives in organized colonies, produces honey in abundance, and has conquered almost every continent.
#Biodiversity #Taxonomy #Science #NameItToSaveIt
Taxonomy isn’t just naming—it’s the foundation of understanding biodiversity. That’s where the @tettris.eu comes in. So..., this is not just a Bee 🐝, It is...🧵
#Biodiversity #Taxonomy #Science #NameItToSaveIt
Team photo of the workshop attendees in front of the Faculty of Biology at UCM.
The End 😎
#NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU
@ucm.es @biologicasucm.bsky.social
Poster with information about the event. It features an illustration of a butterfly (genus Iphiclides) on a flower. The background is cream yellow. The poster reads: ‘First Meeting of Scientific Reference Collections. Pollinators: Towards a National Network for Their Management.’ It provides information about the date and location of the event. It also displays the logos of all the participating and collaborating entities, as well as the organising project. Source: our own
🚨'Pollinators: Towards a National Network for Their Management'
Next week, #INCSTEP is organising the first meeting of pollinator reference collections, aimed to build connections between national entities related with #pollinator conservation! 🎉
#NameItToSaveIt 🦋🐝🪰
Last buzz! Don't miss our last brief report! 🚨
It's the time of the genus #Colletes 🐝
#NameItToSaveIt @tettris.eu
First, take a look at the presentation post about this genus, and then take a look at our infographics! ⤵️
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Detail of one of the entomological boxes with pinned and labelled bee specimens brought to practice ID. Borrowed by FLOWer Lab (Univ. of Coimbra).
A live male Panurgus in a plastic tube. Collected from the CISE pollinator garden.
Eight bee specimens were mounted on a foam plate and left to dry with pins. All specimens were collected in accordance with standard practices, identified and labelled, and will be integrated into several NH collections. Disclaimer: I collected the specimens for training purposes during the course.
A pinned bee specimen in my hand. I don't remember the ID. It's cuticle shows metallic reflections –maybe a tiny male Seladonia? Below the specimen is a collection label. This specimen belonged to the aforementioned FLOWer Lab.
Genus fact sheets, guidance during identification sessions and quizzes, as well as fieldwork! 🧩 All in the same week!
It's time to get to know the bee-diversity hotspot that is the Iberian Peninsula better!
#NameItToSaveIt 🇪🇸🤝🏼🇵🇹
If you have not yet taken a look at the gallery of that day, we again leave here the link 👉👁️: tettris.eu/gallery/
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
According to the European Red List of Bees (2014), its reference collection includes at least nine endangered species.
Check out the list here: doi.org/10.2779/51181
#NameItToSaveIt #TETTRISEu #terrestris #pascuorum #flavidus #gerstaeckeri #taxonomy #biodiversity
The second edition of the Taxonomy Recognition Day reached out to thousands of people both physically and virtually 🧡💙💚
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
#Bombus is the most studied group of wild bees in Europe, so its conservation status is well understood. 🎓
Based on the European Red List of Bees (2014), our reference collection includes at least nine endangered species. #NameItToSaveIt 📉🐝
doi.org/10.2779/51181
It's time for our bumblebees! 🐝
The #Bombus genus is charismatic yet under threat, so taxonomic support is vital! #NameItToSaveIt
Take a look at our brief report below 📊, as well as the presentation we created for this group some time ago. ⤵️
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Only a few weeks to go until the start of the Greek Summer School, an exciting journey into the world of Orthoptera and bioacoustics. 🐛🌳
#TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #Orthoptera #bioacoustics #summerschool #biodiversity #NameItToSaveIt
The second edition of the Taxonomy Recognition Day reached out to thousands of people both physically and virtually 🧡💙💚
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the Natural History Museum of Crete for the video 🧡💙💚
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@nhmwien.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
The team of the L.U.C.E. #TETTRIsEU Satellite is shining as the fireflies do! Watch this video! 👁️🗨️ ✨
#taxonomy #biodiversity #NameItToSaveIt #fireflies
The team of the L.U.C.E. #TETTRIsEU Satellite is shining as the fireflies do! Watch this video! 👁️🗨️ ✨
#taxonomy #biodiversity #NameItToSaveIt #fireflies
The second edition of the Taxonomy Recognition Day reach out to thousands of people both physically and virtually 🧡💙💚
Enjoy a gallery of our European partners 👉 tettris.eu/gallery/
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
Take a look at what they set up in Crete for the Taxonomy Recognition Day! 👇 🧡💙💚
#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social
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It is important to emphasise the importance of this efforts in allowing access to type material of taxa such as #Spialia rosae, a recently described cryptic species that we have spoken to you about lately! 🦋⤵️
#NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU
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Enjoy some more pictures from the 2nd #tettriseu Taxonomy Recognition Day. Those are from Portugal 🇵🇹, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Germany 🇩🇪
The #nameittosaveit is still ON, don't forget to contribute!
#taxonomy #biodiversity @nhmdk.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
Some of our taxonomic experts working in the INC-STEP's reference collections. In this photo, S. Montagud and J. Hernández working in the Hesperiidae collection at MNCN. Source: MNCN
Óscar Aguado working in the INC-STEP's Bombus collection at MCNB. Source: MCNB
Helena Barril working in the INC-STEP's Bombus collection at MCNB. Source: MCNB
Antonio Ricarte working in the Eristaline INC-STEP's collections at MCNB. Source: MCNB
If there is one element as important as the specimens themselves in reference collections, it is the taxonomic experts! 🔬
Without them, specimens would remain undetermined and valuable scientific data would be lost🧬📄.
#NameItToSaveIt
@tettris.eu
Rounded imagem with Dino Irritator in the center and rounded Brazilian flag behind. There's a text around that says: Irritator Belongs To Br - colonial science: no!
What about the Irritator?
It should be returned to Brazil
#IrritatorBelongsToBrazil
#NameItToSaveIt
#recap
#taxonomyrecognitionday
Als Teil des TETTRIs @tettris.eu Projekts, haben wir am 23. Mai den Tag der #Taxonomie gefeiert.
Auch nach dem Tag könnt ihr zum #Artenschutz helfen: Postet Bild und Namen eures Lieblingstiers unter #nameittosaveit
@coleomaniac.bsky.social
@phludwig.bsky.social
This 2nd #tettriseu Taxonomy Recognition Day in Brussels was even better than the first one! We thank the staff at the @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social for welcoming our guests and visitors, and for leading them behind the scenes of the museum
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#NameItToSaveIt #biodiversity
Have you seen this amazing video created by the students of @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and Meise Botanic Garden together for the 2nd #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day? Congratulations! Thank you for supporting the #NameItToSaveIt campaign!
The #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day stroke Europe from Greece 🇬🇷 to Finland 🇫🇮, from Italy 🇮🇹 to Belgium🇧🇪 and in 10+Countries!
Hundreds of people joined their local Natural History Museums & Natural Gardens and learned about the importance of #Taxonomy for preserving #biodiversity!
#NameItToSaveIt
