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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-11 00:19:17

🐝 Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago, fossil evidence shows
#bees

Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago, fossil evidence shows
An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble bees were found in 24-million-year-old sediments at the Enspel Fossil-Lagerstätte (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)—along with evidence of their interaction in the form of preserved pollen grains. These findings show that bumble bees were already among the most important pollinators of linden (or…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-30 15:00:57

"Wild bees visit different flowers to balance diet, study shows"
#Bees #Insects

Wild bees visit different flowers to balance diet, study shows
Researchers say findings show need for conservation efforts to focus on nutritional diversity

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-08 14:00:54

"Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Bees

Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms
Though intensive farming has ravaged its habitat, could sensitive planting at energy sites aid the species’ revival?

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-04 00:37:56

Electrophysiological recordings reveal photoreceptor coupling in the dorsal rim areas of honeybee and bumblebee eyes: #bees use the sun's position in the sky for navigation, even on cloudy days.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-08 15:00:54

"Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Bees

Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-14 13:00:40

"Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years"
#Europe #Bees #Insects

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years
Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-10-22 16:29:59

Bin derzeit bienenfleißig damit im Advent täglich auch immer etwas neuer Buntfug für Euch im #klexadventskalender ist. Doch auch das "Normalsortiment" bereite ich vor.
Die handgemalten #wandklexschmuck Bienchen -hier in Ohrstecker gefasst- sind (immer) auf #miniaturepainting #bees #watercolor #mastoArt #fediArt #creativeToots

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-14 12:00:40

"Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Bees #Insects

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU
The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.