On 12 June, I had the pleasure of holding my very first scientific illustration workshop as part of the 7th edition of the Campanha Pedaços de Mar & Ambiente 2026 campaign, organised by Associação Os Montanheiros. Together with the participants, we painted an earwig (Forficula auricularia) whilst exploring watercolour techniques. I started with a short …
Back in October 2024, while I was making a set of air-dry clay birds as a Christmas gift for a little girl, I never imagined that less than two years later I would be creating them for so many children. It’s lovely to see how something that began as a small personal project has grown …
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 …