I am excited to share our latest article, entitled ‘Improving biodiversity in Central and Eastern European gardens needs regionally scaled strategies‘, which has just been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and is now available online here. This article is the output of an international project, which Dr. Gabor Pozsgai and I conceived, and …
Have a read of my latest book review about two amazing and inspiring books: Stephen Buchmann’s What a Bee Knows and Lars Chittka’s The Mind of a Bee. To give you a little teaser, here is a snippet from my review:“These two books offer a compelling portrait of bees as creatures of remarkable complexity and intelligence. …
Did you know that pumpkins, as an entomophilous crop, rely on insect pollination and are typically pollinated by a variety of bee species? All cultivated pumpkins (Cucurbita pecies) have separate male and female ( = unisexual) flowers, requiring pollinators to transfer pollen for fruit set. Pumpkin flowers provide abundant pollen and nectar resources to attract …
Between 16 and 19 September, I had the pleasure of attending the 10th Congress of Apidology (organized by the Estonian University of Life Sciences) in Tallinn, Estonia. It was a special gift for me to be able to present a poster, entitled ‘Buzzing under pressure: Investigating the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on the intraspecific behaviour …
Between 10 and 14 September, I had the pleasure to present two posters at two different conferences simultaneously: one in person at the 9th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Balatonvilágos (Hungary) and the other online at ENTO24 organised by The Royal Entomological Society. I enjoyed the SCCS’s strong focus on pollinators, which allowed …