Latest posts tagged with #pollination on Bluesky
The blueberry flowering season is almost OVER! 💮
Bees are making the most of the last open flowers 🐝
Blooming was unusually SHORT — leaving very little time for pollination... Will it be enough for a good fruit set? 🫐
Results in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
#Ecology #Blueberry #Pollination #Bee
A stinking yellow Celandine flower shines in the sunshine. A tiny wild bee sits on the anthers and has pollen on its body.
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) in #Sussex with a tiny solitary bee (~1cm long).
#bees
#pollination
#pollinators
#entomology
The blueberry bushes are still in full bloom! 🫐
This week, bumblebees OUTNUMBER honeybees in the fields 🐝
Data collection continues - every observation matters! 🔎
#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Pollinator #Bee #BumbleBee
Conceptual diagram of touch-sensitive stigma movements in Mazus miquelii. Higher temperatures accelerate both temporary closure and reopening. whereas permanent (irreversible) closure tracks pollination progress: greater pollen deposition and faster pollen-tube growth accelerate permanent closure, while pollen-tube position is positively associated with the time to permanent closure. Pollen source shows no detectable effect.
Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii
New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination
The blueberry bushes are still flowering!
Bees are busy buzz-pollinating the flowers.
Curious to see how this will translate into fruit set this season...
💮 +🐝 = 🫐🫐 ?
#Ecology #Pollination #BuzzPollination #Blueberry #Flower #Bee #Bumblebee #FruitSet
"Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits with Heterhelus beetle larvae, allowing their survival too. This interaction changes how scientists understand the balance between plants and their pollinating insects."
🌱🍃🪲 #JapaneseRedElder #Beetles #Pollination #Interactions
Walking through the blueberry fields today — The bushes are FINALLY in bloom! 🌼 — The bees are buzzing everywhere 🐝 — It's incredible to see.
Flowering is incredibly LATE this year... a consequence of truly bizarre weather!
#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Phenology
Spring is right around the corner and the beautiful rotten smell of skunk cabbage is in the air! A fascinating local example of sapromyophily - flowers that smell stinky to attract fly (and beetle) pollinators. #diptera #pollination
Sunflower Power
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” — Vincent van Gogh
#BecauseILikeFlowers #TheArtEclectic #sunflower #bee #pollination #gardenlife #botanicalart #hopeful #alive
Air pollution distracts insects from pollination and sex
->National Geographic | More on "Air pollution disrupts insect pollination" at BigEarthData.ai | #Insect #AirPollution #Pollination
Butterflies pollinate flowers, while feeding themselves with nectar.
Saw butterflies pollinating these colorful #flowers in a #butterfly farm in Bohol, Philippines.
#plant #flora #pollination
So that is why. Changed climate, more water in the air... 🧪
phys.org/news/2026-02... #agriculture #climatechange #elnina #dew #agriculture #gardening #pollination
seven photos of bright flowering vegetable and fruit plants and one with a bumble bee collecting pollen
Bees are great at spotting bright flowers especially yellow because their vision is adapted to UV light, which makes yellow hues stand out vividly. This helps them find nectar-rich blooms efficiently, boosting pollination & keeping our ecosystems thriving. 🌼🐝 #Bees #Pollination
Photo of a bee pollinating a Texas Red Bud. A blue sky is in the background.
Photo of a bee pollinating a Texas Red Bud blossom. A bare tree is in the bottom right corner, there is a blue sky behind.
Photo of several white blossoms of a Mexican Plum. Branches and other blooms are in the background.
Spring is starting here in #DFW! #nature #photography #flowers #bee #pollination
The garden is giving again
Pure joy! ☆
#nature #spring #outdoors #bloomscrolling #purplefriday #plants #gardening #pollination #bees
Graphical Abstract: A 4-year survey of Cremastra appendiculata var. variabilis pollinators was conducted using a commercially available sensor camera throughout the flowering period. Additionally, sensor cameras and interval photography were used simultaneously to compare the number of videos capturing bumblebees. The results showed that using a commercially available sensor camera effectively captures flower-visiting bumblebees, with only a small proportion of visits potentially missed.
#OpenAccess
Effectiveness of infrared sensor camera monitoring for detecting #pollinator visits to Cremastra appendiculata var. variabilis in a temperate forest in Central Japan
Masahiko Shimada et al
🐝👉https://x.gd/tnA23
bumblebee queen/ camera trap/ orchid #pollination
Effects of drone-assisted artificial #pollination on #fruit set and characteristics in Asian pear.
To read this article in JHSB 101:2, visit: doi.org/10.1080/1462...
#AsianPear #Drones #Niitaka #Pollen #Pyrus
We’ve identified all the branches to study 🌿. Now it’s time to count every flower — buds, fully open flowers, and faded flowers — ALL of them! 🌸
🔍 To obtain an accurate estimate, we’ll repeat these counts several times during flowering!
#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Phenology
🐦-🥀-🐦-🥀-🐦-🥀...
Chen et al.'s🔥new work on the #evolution of #flower traits in the bird-pollinated Brandisia advances our understanding of how #bird #pollinators shape floral diversification.
doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#evolution #systematics #pollination
Our new paper is out! Here’s the lay summary. #Ecology #Pollination #AnimalBehavior #SocialInformation #FloralEcology #BandwagonEffects #Bumblebees
I've already discussed climate change quite a bit on SciLux. But today's show also focuses on solutions. Discover it yourself by listening to Prof. @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social from Spain's BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change.
#biodiversity #pollination
www.scilux.eu/episodes/hum...
EVENT │
Join the International Beekeeping Conference!
The conference will focus on #apitherapy and bee products, bee biology and health, #pollination and bee flora, #beekeeping and livelihood.
WHEN? April 6–10
WHERE? Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal
More information:
🧪 Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bees #pollination #morphology
"Spring arrives, and with it, the magnolias. Their pink and white blooms unfurl in many parts of the world, but if you look closely, you might see a beetle land on the flowers — not a bee."
🌱🪷🪲 #Magnolias #Beetles #Pollination #Biology #Nature #Science #IsItSpringYet
By @mareacaspica.bsky.social 👏🏼
February bee in rosemary flowers today, Sedona, Arizona. #photography #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #flower #flowers #pollen #pollination #pollinator #bee #beesbein
Fruit set — the % of flowers that produce fruit — is a key indicator of pollination quality 🐝➡️🌼➡️🫐
But how do we measure it?
Step 1: select and mark branches for monitoring.
One branch per bush, with at least 30 buds!
#Ecology #Pollination #Agriculture #Experimentation #Blueberry
Blueberry flowering season is near! 🌼🌼🐝🐝
We installed hundreds of blueberry bushes in pots to test how field spatial organization impacts fruit production.
BEFORE / AFTER — the difference is striking!
Next step: marking the branches we’ll monitor.
#Ecology #Pollination #Agriculture #Experimentation
I just watched Anton Petrov’s introduction to some recent discoveries in electrostatic ecology. At smaller scales electrostatic forces are very important and we’re increasingly discovering how lots of small animals (and plant parts like pollen) make use of electrostatic forces to jump and fly […]
"For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of birds and bees, and attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival. New research shows how flowers do it, and might even involve a little bit of magic."
Amazing! 🌹🌺🏵️🐦🐝🧬 #RedFlowers #Birds #Bees #Pollination #Genetics #Biology #Nature
