🌍 By connecting collections, people, and data, SEN-PollColl will increase the visibility and scientific use of Spanish regional collections, support conservation actions, and contribute to a stronger pollinator research community in Spain.

Stay tuned! 📡

📷 Photo credit: @carlosgarsan2.bsky.social

🎯 Our key objectives are:

1️⃣ Mobilisation of collection-based data on pollinators
2️⃣ Training and education of students and collection managers in best practices
3️⃣ Networking and long-term collaboration among institutions housing pollinators

We intend to strengthen collaboration 🤝

👀 As you can see, our consortium was well represented!

If you want to know more, you might find the congress's summary book (in Spanish) in the following link📗⤵️
xxicongresoientomologia.es/libro-de-res...

4️⃣ Antonio Ricarte delivered an oral presentation titled: 'The conservation of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in Spain', in which he mentioned the important contribution of enterprises such as #INCSTEP to this cause.

@ua.es

3️⃣ Sergio Montagud presented a virtual poster entitled:'Who is who in #Pyrgus? Illustrated keys for identifying Iberian species', about creating a visual ID tool for one of the most challenging butterfly genus in our territory.

2️⃣ Robert J. Wilson gave an oral presentation titled: 'Towards a national reference collection of pollinating insects in Spain', which aimed to publicise INC-STEP and other initiatives that exploit insect museum specimens!

@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social

1️⃣ Mercedes París presented a virtual poster entitled:' Challenges in creating a reference collection of pollinators'. She presented a preliminary analysis of the time spent on building our pilot reference collection at @mncn-csic.bsky.social.

We have reached the end of the meeting!

To conclude, Rob gives a brief summary of the day, the tasks carried out by all the consortium members, and the future possibilities of the project...

To be continued? We hope so! 😉

Now it's the turn of Conrad Gillett, one of the consultants at @tettris.eu assigned to the INC-STEP 3PP project, to give us some insights into the work carried out by the consortium to date and its importance within the TETTRIs framework 📚.

Adrián and Irene, as the project's lead communicators, present how they have managed to communicate and disseminate 🗣️ information about scientific collections, taxonomy and entomological experts, and, of course, the results obtained so far by INC-STEP @tettris.eu

After lunch... More talks! 🗣️

Now it's Paco's turn to talk about the conclusions and impressions of those who attended the Workshop on Scientific Collections held at @ucm.es

A visit to the museum's permanent exhibition was a must! 😉

After lunch, we will continue with more talks 🗣️.

Discussion time! 🗣️🤝🏻

Sergio now presents Task 4: Mapping Spanish pollinator collections.

The aim of this task was to find other public entomological collections in Spain with which to establish links and which could provide more material for the reference collection 🐝🪰🦋.

Now, Arturo gives us a “master class” on analyzing gaps in the reference collection 📊🔎.

Which species are unique to each institution? Which ones are common to all INC-STEP partners? Which ones are missing? 🤔

Let's continue with more talks!

🗣️ Now it's Manuel's turn to update us on the progresses made on the Iberfauna website to implement specimens from private collections.

Next, Berta and Mercedes talked about the taxonomical review of the 5 collections (Task 1) and the protocol development and evaluation (Task 2).