ANTENNA Project

Thank you all for the great and successful 3rd general annual meeting of the ANTENNA consortium! 💡The meeting strengthened collaboration across the consortium and sparked new ideas for upcoming research publications as ANTENNA moves into its final year: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/antenna...

📢 The 3rd Annual General Meeting of the ANTENNA project is coming! 🔆 It will bring together project partners on Lesbos, Greece, from 19 to 23 October 2026 to review progress, exchange results and coordinate next steps. 👉 Follow us for updates from the meeting!

We depend on nature, not the other way around. It's time we stop pushing our best ally to the brink.

⚖️ Traditional vs. novel pollinator monitoring: Which one will win? 🪤 We tested different methods in Doñana and Julia Aledo (EBD-CSIC) shared the insights during a special seminar. 👉 Find out the breakdown in the seminar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=peEW...

Did you know Europe is running out of taxonomists - the experts who identify pollinator species? 🐝 The Pollinator Academy is an open-source platform from 25 European institutes, offering free courses, ID tools & field guides for all experience levels. 📖 👉 Check them out: pollinatoracademy.eu

🗓️ Join the BMD project in Seville for a high-throughput biodiversity monitoring workshop, providing practical training on biodiversity monitoring and analyses. 🔗 Learn more and express your interest: bmd-project.eu/news/biodive... @gbif.org | @eurosite.org | @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

ANTENNA’s Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge with @ebdonana.bsky.social generated great interest and received extensive coverage. It was featured in the newsletters of four pollinator-related projects and showcased on @ece2026tours.bsky.social! 🐝Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/biodive...

Happy #NationalMothWeek! Learn more about moths:

The ANTENNA project reached new audiences at two key European events dedicated to entomology and biodiversity. It was featured at the XIII European Congress of Entomology and BioMonWeek. 👉 Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/antenna...

🐝 New research co-authored by ANTENNA scientist @ibartomeus.bsky.social explores how insect life-history dynamics can help explain population declines and improve conservation efforts. 👉 Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/antenna...

Our workshop is happening today at #ECE2026Tours! 🐝 Tiny Creatures, Lasting Impact: Science Communication for Entomology 🕐 12:50–13:50 | 📍 Level +2, Room Courteline Beyond the paper: how do we make insect science land with policymakers, practitioners & the public? Come join us!

🦋 Come and find us at the ECE2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology! The ANTENNA project is on display at the @pensoft.net booth. 🤝 You can come say ‘Hi!', share your thoughts, and check out our promo materials!

👀 Don't miss out on taking a peek at the latest PollinERA newsletter and see if you can spot ANTENNA's appearance.

🔎 Did you get the answer to #InsectGame2026 right? I am a moth! 🧐 Did you guess correctly? Let us know below. @pollinera-horizon.eu @safeguard-pollinators.eu @valor-project.eu @eufawready.eu @agri4pol.eu @pollinators-antenna.eu

🌿 This week, we present Yamini Yogya, a postdoctoral researcher dedicated to bridging the gap between biodiversity science and the policies that shape our world. 👉 Read her interview here: www.mambo-project.eu/news/behind-... #EarlyCareerResearchers #MAMBOECRs #MAMBO

The online journal #NatureConservation just announced a new pollinator-focused collection, which addresses the accelerating decline of insect pollinators and the urgent need for comprehensive extinction risk assessments:

🐝 New topical collection now open in Nature Conservation: IUCN Red List assessments, spatial metrics & #conservation strategies for #insect #pollinators. Understudied regions & Data Deficient species especially welcome. Led by @muzafar-riyaz.bsky.social 🔗 natureconservation.pensoft.net/news/1265

Both climate change and biodiversity loss are intertwined crises with severe consequences for people and nature. seedling On this #EnvironmentDay and every day, we remember the essential role of biodiversity in effective climate action.

🐝 Have you already tried The Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge? Combine the data on temperature, location, humidity, and species characteristics with your own intuition and see how the forecasting is actually happening! 🔗No installation needed, just the link: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

🤔 Can you beat AI in predicting insect populations around the world? Take our challenge! The choice of strategy is yours: you can use the trends shown in our interactive challenge, or you can guess randomly. 🔗 Try it here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

10 days to go until #BiodiversityDay 2026!🌿 A global moment to celebrate biodiversity and the actions helping protect life on Earth 🌍 Be part of the celebration for nature 💚 🔗 cbd.int/biodiversity... #LocalAction #ForNature #UNBiodiversity #IDB2026

🐝 The @restpoll.bsky.social consortium brings together expertise of #natural & #social #scientists, as well as #NGOs, businesses & ministries to provide society with tools to reverse wild #insect #pollinator declines. 🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 📸 Relationships among work packages.

🔬 How does ANTENNA advance pollinator biodiversity monitoring? A recent seminar tackles the uncertainty in pollinator trends by providing insights from monitoring, modelling, and prediction. Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=peEW... #biodiversity #monitoring #PollinatorResearch

🐝 The Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge is an experiment to understand how well machine learning models compare to human intuition. Discover the perks of predicting insect population trends yourself. No need for previous expertise to try it out! 👉 pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

🦋 Do you think you can read nature's patterns better than an AI? We just released an interactive challenge that puts human intuition to the test. 🔗 No expertise required, and anyone is invited to participate! Try ANTENNA's Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

🧒 How well do kids know about the #plants and the #bees? 📝 A survey of 6 to 12-year-olds reports: 🐝 70% know bees are “useful & necessary” 🌱 78% think “plants need bees” ⚠️ Generally, however, the kids do not understand the role of bees in #ecosystems. 🔓 Research Article: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

Join us for a three-day hands-on workshop on the deployment of plug-and-play devices. 🗓️ 27-29 May 📍 Barcelona, Spain 📖 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/storage/app/... ✍️ Express your interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌸How do non-native #pollinators change pollinating networks? 🐝By analyzing 2,100+ records in Chile, researchers found that non-native bees (like 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴) are shifting #pollination networks toward less specialized homogenized structures, with 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴 dominating 73% of the interactions.

🇪🇺 ANTENNA is on the move! Our project materials have been crossing borders - landing in Freiburg, Turin, Brussels and Lund alongside pollinator projects @agri4pol.eu, @safeguard-pollinators.eu, @wildposh.eu and @pollinera-horizon.eu. Read about ANTENNA's scope of work: pollinators-antenna.eu/about

💡 A study assessed how climate change and landscape structure affect wild bee communities. Results show that rising temperatures reduce bee species richness, but maintaining a high proportion of semi-natural habitats can mitigate these negative effects. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #ANTENNAexpertise

🐝 Pollinators are essential for crops and wild plants, yet data on their declines are limited and biased. Coordinated research infrastructures are key to monitoring trends and supporting pollinator conservation in agroecosystems. Read on the topic here: doi.org/10.1088/1748... #ANTENNAexpertise

🐝🦇 🐦In light of the numerous threats to #pollinator health, we are launching Advances in Pollinator Research - @apr.pensoft.net, a diamond #OpenAccess #journal that brings together diverse pollinator #science efforts. The journal will be powered by @arphahub.com 👇Read more about it on our blog:

🏛️ Museum specimens reveal long-term changes in pollinators, from species distributions to interactions, yet data remains scarce for most species. Case studies from New Zealand and Spain show how historical collections can help assess global declines. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #ANTENNAexpertise

💛🐝 This Valentine’s Day, show some love to the ones who keep our world blooming. The Young Citizens Assembly on Pollinators has launched its participation platform, and your voice can help shape the solutions to reverse the decline of wild pollinators: panoramic.make.org/en/partner/e...

The newly created National park Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse National Park (ESEMNP) in southern Belgium is buzzing! A 5-month survey of 32 sites collected 1,159 specimens from 102 species. See which habitat supported the highest #diversity here: ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

💡 Automatised methods for scoring behaviours at scale give biologists powerful tools to interpret complex phenotypes. This paper shows how rethomics supports storing, handling, and visualising large behavioural datasets. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ANTENNAexpertise