WildPosh Project

🚀 WildPosh now has an introductory video! Learn more about the project, its objectives, and what it does to protect Europe’s wild pollinators. First animated video developed by @pensoft.net . 🎬 Watch here: youtu.be/8Amsk_dgnCQ?...

Guess where WildPosh was spotted this week? 👀 If you are attending @@cop17arm.bsky.social, come by the EU #Science4Biodiversity booth to pick up some materials and learn more about what we do to understand the effects of pesticides on wild pollinators. 📖 Full COP17 programme: coop4cbd.eu/cop17

📢 WildPosh hashtag#spotted at the @pollinators-antenna.eu's third Annual General Meeting in Lesbos, Greece! Grab some materials at the communication and dissemination corner! 📚 Not on site? All our materials are available in digital format: www.wildposh.eu/media-center...

🦋 Did you check out the VALOR open-access knowledge hub for pollinator conservation? To maximise the visibility and longevity of our research, we launched a dedicated collection in @riojournal.com. riojournal.com/topical_coll...

At EurBee, WildPosh researcher Lauréna Porcel, presented PestiTrack - an open, harmonised database on pesticide use across 4 countries, built to support pollinator risk assessment & better policy. 🌾 wildposh.eu/news/harmoni... #WildPosh #EurBee

📢 We are back with a surprise edition of our early-career researcher series! Alicia Kling (@uni-freiburg.de) joined WildPosh in 2024 for her master’s thesis, and has been continuing her research as a PhD student since January 2025. 👉 wildposh.eu/news/meet-re... #WildPoshECRs #EUpollinators

👀 Have you ever wondered what options for pollinator monitoring there are out there? The @pollinators-antenna.eu is weighing the pros and cons of traditional and novel pollinator monitoring methods. Follow for more insights! 👇

🌻For Dr Tiffany Straza, AGRI4POL means building a healthier relationship with nature, well beyond bees and sunflowers.

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

🐝The time has come to wrap up our early-career researcher series! Our final interviewee is Lauréna Porcel - a data scientist who joined WildPosh partner @anses-fr.bsky.social last year. 🔬 👉 Full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re... #WildPoshECRs

🧐 What happens behind the scenes of fieldwork? Our recent campaign, #WildPoshInTheField, took a behind-the-scenes look at sampling carried out last summer by researchers at the @um.es near as part of WP1. 👉 Fieldwork recap: wildposh.eu/news/behind-...

LinkedIn 🤔 Do you know that there are bee species that eat meat, and some wasps can produce honey? Our next early-career researcher is @andreiaft.bsky.social, a PhD student at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 👉 Read the interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

WildPosh featured in the documentary "How bumblebees conquered the world"! 📹 A documentary from the French-language YouTube channel Science bestiale traces the evolutionary journey of bees. The documentary features our coordinator Denis Michez and his lab at UMONS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXW...

‼️WildPosh mentioned in several EU project newsletters! WildPosh's early-career researcher campaign has been highlighted by several EU pollinator projects in their newsletters - @pollinera-horizon.eu, @valor-project.eu and @agri4pol.eu.

‼️The WildPosh early-career researcher series is back! Today, we are talking to Milica Radenković - a PhD student at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

🪰 WildPosh partners (Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad) presented 2 posters at the 13th International Symposium on Syrphidae, on toxicity of cypermethrin, acetamiprid & tebuconazole in hoverfly Eristalinus aeneus. #Syrphidae #Ecotoxicology

🔥It is time for our weekly early-career researcher interview! Today, we are talking to Álvaro Urueña from the University of Murcia. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

Last week, WildPosh partners joined the #ECE2026 in Tours, France. The project was presented by: 🐝Project manager Sara Reverte (UMONS) 🦋 @sabpes.bsky.social (University of Turin) 🪲 Our communications partner @pensoft.net Learn more: www.wildposh.eu/news/wildpos...

👉 This week, in our early-career researcher series, we meet Jordan Benrezkallah. 🔎 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

WildPosh partners from #BioSense Institute presented at ISS13 (Fiera di Primiero, Italy), sharing results on hoverfly traits, distribution & pesticide risk assessment. MSc student Bojana Vojnović won First Prize for Best Student Poster on pesticide effects on hoverfly wing shape. #ISS13

‼️Straight from the XIII European Congress of Entomology! WildPosh partner Sara Reverte (University of Mons) presented a trait dataset for 3,000 European wild bee and hoverfly species, building on databases from @safeguard-pollinators.eu. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECE2026 #ECE2026Tours

Straight from the XIII European Congress of Entomology! WildPosh partner @sabpes.bsky.social (University of Turin) presented research on extending ERA beyond honeybees with support from the @pollinera-horizon.eu . 👀 Follow us for more updates! #ece2026 #ECE2026Tours

☀️ Today, we are sitting down with another WildPosh early-career researcher - Kaarel Pent, who is a junior research fellow at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

☀️ It is great to see so many WildPosh partners at the XIII European Congress of Entomology! @sabpes.bsky.social (University of Turin) also stopped by our booth today! #ece2026 #ECE2026Tours

Thank you to WildPosh project manager Sara Reverte (University of Mons) for stopping by our booth! #ece2026 #ECE2026Tours

We are attending the XIII European Congress of Entomology! 👋 Come say hi at booth 4 (level 2), where you will find our partner, @pensoft.net. #ece2026 #ECE2026Tours!

🔎 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

It is time for our clue for #InsectGame2026: Some of us help pollinate flowers. 👉 Follow @pollinera-horizon.eu on.eu @agri4pol.eu @pollinators-antenna.eu @valor-project.eu @safeguard-pollinators.eu and @eufawready.eu ufawready.eu for more clues!

A joint white paper from 8 EU-funded projects warns that Europe's food security and ecosystems are at risk if pollinator decline is not reversed and calls for urgent action. 🐝 👉 Learn more: www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-D...

🐝 Several renowned scientists, including WildPosh partners, have voiced serious concerns about the future of pesticide risk assessment in the EU in a new piece published in @science.org. Learn more: www.wildposh.eu/news/how-can...

🦋 Happy insect week! This week, we remind you to stand tall for the small and invite you to participate in our Insect Game. Follow @pollinera-horizon.eu, @valor-project.eu, @agri4pol.eu, @pollinators-antenna.eu, @eufawready.eu, @safeguard-pollinators.eu and us for clues! #InsectGame2026

Today, we are sitting down with Tatiana Cardenas, who works with @anses-fr.bsky.social on WP1 of WildPosh. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re... #WildPoshECRs #EUpollinators #WildPollinators #Scientist #ECR #EarlyCareerResearchers

🎉 Thrilled to be in Davos, Switzerland for #WBF2026. 🤝 Under the theme "Leading Transformation Together", we are showcasing our open-access journal portfolio and participating projects, including @bioagora.eu, @obsgession.eu and @b-cubed.eu. 💬 Come chat with our team!

👀 Are you curious who the next scientist from our early-career researcher series is? This week, we are sitting down with Cristina Parenti from the Italian National Institute of Health. 🔎 Read the full interview:

👩‍🔬 This week, in our early-career researchers interview series, we present Margret Jürison - a PhD student and junior researcher at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. 👉 Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

Breeding Aglais urticae, the small tortoiseshell for @wildposh.eu project. Such hungry caterpillars. #pollinators #pesticides With @naturealexk.bsky.social

🧪 Welcome to our early-career researcher series! Each week, we introduce one of the young scientists behind the WildPosh project.👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 First up: Nathan Silva from @cnrs.fr. Read the full interview: wildposh.eu/news/meet-re...

📢 New policy brief from our sister project is now out! @pollinera-horizon.eu is calling for a change in how pesticides are regulated in Europe - learn more. 👇

🌡️ By the end of the WildPosh sampling campaign last June, the temperature around Albacete and Murcia had reached 30 °C. The bumblebees felt it too - they flapped their wings at the entrance of the nest to keep it cool. Have you noticed bumblebees doing this near a nest? Share below! @um.es

A new #primer pair called #BeePrime, tackles a key gap in #pollinator #monitoring by reliably detecting #bee #DNA from flower samples. Tested in Austrian flower strips, it found 4x more bee species than standard primers, boosting both accuracy and efficiency. Read more⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

Curious about how researchers collect nectar from flowers? 🌸 This short clip shows nectar sampling in action - part of the WildPosh fieldwork carried out by researchers from the @um.es last summer. 🔬 What do researchers find when they analyse nectar? Drop your guess below! #WildPoshInTheField

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🐝 There's nothing quite like seeing your study species in action. WildPosh researchers from @um.es placed bumblebee nests at different sampling points. Soon, the bumblebees got to work, flying around and collecting pollen from nearby flowers. 🏵️ 🔄 Repost! #WildPoshInTheField