Pilar De la Rúa
@pdelarua.bsky.social
Biologist🐝🧬🏝️
Professor at the University of Murcia
Professor at the University of Murcia
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Hoverflies are important non-bee pollinators. Yet, they remain overlooked in risk assessment when it comes to pesticides.
WildPosh researchers are trying to fill this gap by presenting a new oral toxicity test for Eristalinus aeneus, a widespread hoverfly species.
wildposh.eu/news/new-wil...
WildPosh researchers are trying to fill this gap by presenting a new oral toxicity test for Eristalinus aeneus, a widespread hoverfly species.
wildposh.eu/news/new-wil...
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Hoverflies are important non-bee pollinators. Yet, they remain overlooked in risk assessment when it comes to pesticides.
WildPosh researchers are trying to fill this gap by presenting a new oral toxicity test for Eristalinus aeneus, a widespread hoverfly species.
wildposh.eu/news/new-wil...
WildPosh researchers are trying to fill this gap by presenting a new oral toxicity test for Eristalinus aeneus, a widespread hoverfly species.
wildposh.eu/news/new-wil...
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Here's a sneak preview of the latest Pollinator Project! It's going to be something special. Welcome ProPollSoil on board!
The #ProPollSoil project has officially got underway, coming together to explore two big questions: How does the health of our soils shape the fate of #pollinators? And how do pollinators influence #soil health?
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Connecting soils and pollinators: the ProPollSoil project kicks off in Germany!
The ProPollSoil project officially got underway on 1st October, and this week (16th–20th November) our consortium gathered in Freising, Germany, for the kick-off meeting hosted by the Technical Uni…
jeffollerton.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here's a sneak preview of the latest Pollinator Project! It's going to be something special. Welcome ProPollSoil on board!
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🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Doctoral Candidate Soil–Pollinator Interactions and Soil Health
www.lss.ls.tum.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
👉 Today, we introduce the third WildPosh work package!
WP3 builds on data from WP2 and investigates how chemical exposure impacts pollinator health at the molecular level.
The University of Murcia leads this work package.
🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!
WP3 builds on data from WP2 and investigates how chemical exposure impacts pollinator health at the molecular level.
The University of Murcia leads this work package.
🔄 Help WildPosh reach more people who care about pollinators by reposting!
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What a nice environment around the kick-off meeting of the new Horizon project ProPollSoil 🐝🪨
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What a nice environment around the kick-off meeting of the new Horizon project ProPollSoil 🐝🪨
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🔔 Meet the second of the #WildPoshWorkPackages!
WP2 explores how single and combined pesticide exposure affects wild #pollinators.
This work package is led by MLU.
🔄 Repost to help more people discover how WildPosh protects pollinators!
WP2 explores how single and combined pesticide exposure affects wild #pollinators.
This work package is led by MLU.
🔄 Repost to help more people discover how WildPosh protects pollinators!
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔔 Meet the second of the #WildPoshWorkPackages!
WP2 explores how single and combined pesticide exposure affects wild #pollinators.
This work package is led by MLU.
🔄 Repost to help more people discover how WildPosh protects pollinators!
WP2 explores how single and combined pesticide exposure affects wild #pollinators.
This work package is led by MLU.
🔄 Repost to help more people discover how WildPosh protects pollinators!
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Canarias destaca por el alto número de especies de abejas endémicas que no existen en ningún otro lugar. Sin embargo, la nueva evaluación de las abejas europeas en la Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas revela una situación preocupante para algunas de ellas
polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...
polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...
Endemismos en riesgo: el desafío de conservar las abejas de Canarias – Polinizadores
polinizadoresdecanarias.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Canarias destaca por el alto número de especies de abejas endémicas que no existen en ningún otro lugar. Sin embargo, la nueva evaluación de las abejas europeas en la Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas revela una situación preocupante para algunas de ellas
polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...
polinizadoresdecanarias.org/endemismos-e...
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👉 Let’s take a closer look at the first of the #WildPoshWorkPackages!
WP1 is led by @EMU and tries to determine the real-world agrochemical exposure of wild pollinators.
🔗 Find out more: wildposh.eu
WP1 is led by @EMU and tries to determine the real-world agrochemical exposure of wild pollinators.
🔗 Find out more: wildposh.eu
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
👉 Let’s take a closer look at the first of the #WildPoshWorkPackages!
WP1 is led by @EMU and tries to determine the real-world agrochemical exposure of wild pollinators.
🔗 Find out more: wildposh.eu
WP1 is led by @EMU and tries to determine the real-world agrochemical exposure of wild pollinators.
🔗 Find out more: wildposh.eu
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October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Anda que no se ha hablado veces de esta avispa en la prensa como para seguir confundiéndola con las autóctonas. Quince años con ellas y seguimos equivocándonos en cuanto tenemos que destacar la noticia. ¡Qué lástima!
@infobae.bsky.social
@infobae.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Anda que no se ha hablado veces de esta avispa en la prensa como para seguir confundiéndola con las autóctonas. Quince años con ellas y seguimos equivocándonos en cuanto tenemos que destacar la noticia. ¡Qué lástima!
@infobae.bsky.social
@infobae.bsky.social
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INVESTIGACIÓN | La investigadora de la UMU Pilar de la Rúa participa en una evaluación europea que alerta del riesgo de extinción de más de un centenar de especies de abejas 🐝
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
INVESTIGACIÓN | La investigadora de la UMU Pilar de la Rúa participa en una evaluación europea que alerta del riesgo de extinción de más de un centenar de especies de abejas 🐝
Not only coffee but also chocolate! 🐝🐝💪🏻💪🏻
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🌱 The Secret Behind Your Chocolate Bar 🍫
Every piece of chocolate owes its existence to the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). This rainforest plant underpins a $100 billion industry, yet its fate rests with one tiny pollinator: the chocolate midge (Ceratopogonidae). 🦟
🌱 The Secret Behind Your Chocolate Bar 🍫
Every piece of chocolate owes its existence to the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). This rainforest plant underpins a $100 billion industry, yet its fate rests with one tiny pollinator: the chocolate midge (Ceratopogonidae). 🦟
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Not only coffee but also chocolate! 🐝🐝💪🏻💪🏻
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Today, the website of our Horizon Europe project on #pollinator stewardship, www.butterfly-europe.eu has reached 50 clicks from google search in the past 28 days.
Please link to our wonderful website to help make it even better findable
+ follow our BlueSky account @butterfly-project.bsky.social
Please link to our wonderful website to help make it even better findable
+ follow our BlueSky account @butterfly-project.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today, the website of our Horizon Europe project on #pollinator stewardship, www.butterfly-europe.eu has reached 50 clicks from google search in the past 28 days.
Please link to our wonderful website to help make it even better findable
+ follow our BlueSky account @butterfly-project.bsky.social
Please link to our wonderful website to help make it even better findable
+ follow our BlueSky account @butterfly-project.bsky.social
Para leer con calma y actuar deprisa 🐝🐝
New IUCN Red List data shows worsening trends for Europe’s wild #pollinators: 100 more bee species are now threatened, and the percentage of vulnerable butterfly species is up 76% in a decade.
More at: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/News/ViewNew...
More at: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/News/ViewNew...
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Para leer con calma y actuar deprisa 🐝🐝
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El polen de las flores de Crocus serotinus es abundante y muy pegajoso, acumulándose en mucha cantidad sobre el cuerpo de los visitantes florales. Aquí tenemos a una reina de Bombus terrestris en el acto mismo de frotar su frente rebozada de polen con los estigmas (parecen azafrán porque es azafrán)
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
El polen de las flores de Crocus serotinus es abundante y muy pegajoso, acumulándose en mucha cantidad sobre el cuerpo de los visitantes florales. Aquí tenemos a una reina de Bombus terrestris en el acto mismo de frotar su frente rebozada de polen con los estigmas (parecen azafrán porque es azafrán)
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Aprovecho para decir que estas ayudas son de las pocas maneras que tenemos los investigadores "jovenes" de dirigir proyectos aunque luego se nos vaya a penalizar en las evaluaciones por no haberlo hecho
#ProyectosAEET
Ya se ha resuelto la convocatoria 2025 de las ayudas a proyectos de investigación en Ecología @eco-aeet.bsky.social + @sibecol.bsky.social + Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
www.aeet.org/es/convocato...
Ya se ha resuelto la convocatoria 2025 de las ayudas a proyectos de investigación en Ecología @eco-aeet.bsky.social + @sibecol.bsky.social + Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
www.aeet.org/es/convocato...
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Aprovecho para decir que estas ayudas son de las pocas maneras que tenemos los investigadores "jovenes" de dirigir proyectos aunque luego se nos vaya a penalizar en las evaluaciones por no haberlo hecho
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🦋 #WildPosh celebrates #IPI25!
Through extensive fieldwork, controlled experiments, and advanced data analysis, at WildPosh we aim to improve pesticide risk evaluation and ensure the resilience of pollination processes for a more sustainable future.
👉 Read about WildPosh's actions: wildposh.eu
Through extensive fieldwork, controlled experiments, and advanced data analysis, at WildPosh we aim to improve pesticide risk evaluation and ensure the resilience of pollination processes for a more sustainable future.
👉 Read about WildPosh's actions: wildposh.eu
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🦋 #WildPosh celebrates #IPI25!
Through extensive fieldwork, controlled experiments, and advanced data analysis, at WildPosh we aim to improve pesticide risk evaluation and ensure the resilience of pollination processes for a more sustainable future.
👉 Read about WildPosh's actions: wildposh.eu
Through extensive fieldwork, controlled experiments, and advanced data analysis, at WildPosh we aim to improve pesticide risk evaluation and ensure the resilience of pollination processes for a more sustainable future.
👉 Read about WildPosh's actions: wildposh.eu
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The effect of #neonicotinoids on #bumblebees (Bombus spp.):
a systematic review
#pollinators
#pesticides
findings consistently showed impaired foraging, learning, memory, and reproduction, all of which compromise colony health and long-term population viability
www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee...
a systematic review
#pollinators
#pesticides
findings consistently showed impaired foraging, learning, memory, and reproduction, all of which compromise colony health and long-term population viability
www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee...
Frontiers | The effect of neonicotinoids on bumblebees (Bombus spp.): a systematic review
Neonicotinoids are systemic insecticides used in agriculture to control herbivorous pests by targeting the nervous system. However, the persistence and prese...
www.frontiersin.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The effect of #neonicotinoids on #bumblebees (Bombus spp.):
a systematic review
#pollinators
#pesticides
findings consistently showed impaired foraging, learning, memory, and reproduction, all of which compromise colony health and long-term population viability
www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee...
a systematic review
#pollinators
#pesticides
findings consistently showed impaired foraging, learning, memory, and reproduction, all of which compromise colony health and long-term population viability
www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee...
New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU
The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
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The Spanish National Research Council is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position.
Work with an international team of ecologists, agronomists, and social scientists contributing to the VALOR project.
Learn more and apply here: bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
Work with an international team of ecologists, agronomists, and social scientists contributing to the VALOR project.
Learn more and apply here: bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
October 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The Spanish National Research Council is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position.
Work with an international team of ecologists, agronomists, and social scientists contributing to the VALOR project.
Learn more and apply here: bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
Work with an international team of ecologists, agronomists, and social scientists contributing to the VALOR project.
Learn more and apply here: bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
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Ayer falleció Jane Goodall, científica pionera, conservacionista incansable y una gran referente para todos los que queremos un futuro mejor para el planeta.
Se la echará de menos.
janegoodall.org
Se la echará de menos.
janegoodall.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ayer falleció Jane Goodall, científica pionera, conservacionista incansable y una gran referente para todos los que queremos un futuro mejor para el planeta.
Se la echará de menos.
janegoodall.org
Se la echará de menos.
janegoodall.org
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[Para la afición abejera]
La mayoría de Xylocopa negros que vemos son X. violacea, pero hay que estar atentos por si se nos cuela algún X. valga. A veces con fotos se pueden detectar. Aquí tenéis uno de hoy en Lavandula latifolia. Antena 11 piezas (macho) y longitud 1=2+3 (violacea sería 1=2+3+4)
La mayoría de Xylocopa negros que vemos son X. violacea, pero hay que estar atentos por si se nos cuela algún X. valga. A veces con fotos se pueden detectar. Aquí tenéis uno de hoy en Lavandula latifolia. Antena 11 piezas (macho) y longitud 1=2+3 (violacea sería 1=2+3+4)
August 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
[Para la afición abejera]
La mayoría de Xylocopa negros que vemos son X. violacea, pero hay que estar atentos por si se nos cuela algún X. valga. A veces con fotos se pueden detectar. Aquí tenéis uno de hoy en Lavandula latifolia. Antena 11 piezas (macho) y longitud 1=2+3 (violacea sería 1=2+3+4)
La mayoría de Xylocopa negros que vemos son X. violacea, pero hay que estar atentos por si se nos cuela algún X. valga. A veces con fotos se pueden detectar. Aquí tenéis uno de hoy en Lavandula latifolia. Antena 11 piezas (macho) y longitud 1=2+3 (violacea sería 1=2+3+4)
