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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join Butterfly as a Research Engineer in Economics at CIHEAM Montpellier, France. 6-month, full-time contract. Apply by 15 October 2026. Help connect pollinator science with economic decision-making. #Jobs #Pollinators

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food & Environment 30 Sept – 3 Oct, 2026, Kos Island, Greece @butterfly-project.bsky.social haicta.gr/conferences/... TIMES ARE LOCAL TIME in Kos!! HAICTA plenary live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHO8...

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HAICTA 2026 - Day 1 - Thursday, 1 October 2026 (IALYSSOS BALLROOM)

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You can find us at the 11th European Conference of Apidology, EurBee11, 🐝Bologna.

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Butterfly's "Synthesis report human dimensions of pollinator decline and restoration" is out! Find out what the 18 facets of pollinator-human relations are that were identified in the Multi Language review across the 13 languages of Butterfly's consortium. butterfly-europe.eu/deliverable-...

Through our multi-language review, we found many hopeful narratives, especially in the areas mentioned above. We found stories and experiences from farmers switching from conventional to organic farming (e.g., Telling, 2011; Lemvig, 2020), municipalities becoming pesticide-free (Boesen, 2025), mutual benefits for pollinators and humans of pollinator gardens (Batemen, 2023) and stories of kinship (Lindholm, 2023). Concepts building on multispecies ethnography such as ‘playful work’ (Ellis, 2022), multispecies kinship (Meloni, 2019) and multi-species urban spaces (Pettenati, 2023), as well as indigenous cultures and knowledge, can inspire and show that a care relationship is
possible. Generally, this deliverable itself should be seen as part of slow hope, as it presents hopeful narratives about the various ways humans relate to pollinators, become ecologically aware, and act as individuals or communities to restore them. It will influence and inspire the other Butterfly work packages with its results, form a basis for new research and motivate citizens and policymakers to take action.

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Butterfly's Toolbox for Resilience Thinking helps actors in pollinator-dependent supply chains (food & nutrients, bio-materials, bio-energy crops, medicine, cosmetics) to engage in transformative action and assume pollinator stewardship in their daily practices. butterfly-europe.eu/deliverable-...

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Butterfly's Delphi vulnerability assessment protocol @mimiet.bsky.social maps out vulnerability of pollinator dependent sectors (food/micronutrients, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biomaterials, biomass energy) to pollinator decline and guides scenario development butterfly-europe.eu/deliverable-...

Steps included in the development of the scenarios for the Butterfly Delphi surveys. Supply chain description, literature search and desk research long list, consultation of experts in Butterfly and Living Labs to draft short list, scenario statments / projections.

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Mirella Miettinen @mimiet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How does forest management change the hidden world in which forest pollinators spend most of their lives? This is studied in ProPollSoil project. The 3rd video in #ForestStation elaborates links of @butterfly-project.bsky.social pollinator stewardship and forest management practices. #HorizonEurope

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵5/5 This is where ProPollSoil and Butterfly meet. ProPollSoil reveals how soil environment support pollinators. Butterfly places that knowledge within a broader vision of pollinator stewardship across research, practice and policy. 🦋🔗Butterfly butterfly-europe.eu 🌱🔗ProPollSoil www.propollsoil.eu

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵4/5 The study has a practical objective: to develop evidence-based recommendations that integrate pollinator needs into forest management.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵3/5 That contrast allows researchers to ask an important question: how does forest management change the hidden world in which forest pollinators spend most of their lives? A forest may contain plenty of organic matter, yet quantity alone does not guarantee nutritional quality.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵2/5 The Niepołomice Forest near Kraków (Poland) is a natural laboratory. Pine plantations, differently managed forests and old, minimally disturbed woodland occur under broadly similar environmental conditions, but experience very different levels of human intervention.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵1/5 #ForestStation 3/3: 🎥from campus to forest @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ioes-ju.bsky.social 🌲 Can a forest look green and healthy, yet fail to provide pollinator larvae with the nutrients they need? This time, we’re taking a closer look at what the ProPollSoil project has been up to😄.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵4/4 That is #PollinatorStewardship. Discover Butterfly and our sibling project ProPollSoil: 🦋 f.mtr.cool/vcmlaimlbh 🌱 f.mtr.cool/puaezotvzv 📖 Read the Butterfly Newsletter and subscribe so you don't miss out on future issues! 📣https://f.mtr.cool/abxfzmhulf #DeadWood

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵3/4 Protecting this pollinator therefore means protecting more than flowers. It means caring for the entire woodland system that supports its life. This is the essence of pollinator stewardship: seeing the whole organism, its complete life cycle and its many connections to ecosystem functioning.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵2/4 The adult beetle may visit flowers and contribute to pollination, while the larva develops inside dead wood. Protecting this species therefore requires more than providing flowers. It requires maintaining the woodland structures and ecological processes that support its hidden juvenile life.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵1/4 #ForestStation 2/3: 🎥The beetle worth hearing Plagionotus detritus produces a striking creaking sound when threatened. Its black-and-yellow colouring adds a second defence by resembling a hornet. But the deeper lesson lies in its life cycle. @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ioes-ju.bsky.social

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Maria Clara Castellanos @calacastellanos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Project Butterfly on pollinator stewardship and the multiple roles of pollinators in ecosystems - see 🧵 including short video below.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🧵3/4 This is #PollinatorStewardship: protecting not just flower-visiting adults, but the habitats and resources required throughout the entire life cycle. Effective pollinator conservation must reach beyond flowers.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🧵2/4 As adults, these insects carry pollen between flowers. As larvae, they decompose dead matter and return chemical elements to the cycle of matter – fundamental process that sustains life. One organism. Two life stages. Two essential roles in keeping the forest alive.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🧵1/4 💡 Pollinator stewardship begins by recognising that pollinators do far more than pollinate 🪲Many forest pollinators spend most of their lives as larvae, hidden from flowers in dead wood or leaf litter. #ForestStation 1/3: 🎥1 insect, 2 lives @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ioes-ju.bsky.social

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What started as a low-budget, highly ambitious project to help restore populations of bumble bees, solidary bees, hoverflies and moths fast became the biggest nature-positive initiative, embraced by local authorities and communities alike. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

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The low budget pollinator project that grew wings and created real change

Low-budget, highly ambitious project to restore populations of critical insects fast became a top nature-positive initiative

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We'll present you with the 3-part #ForestStation video series next week🤩 Episode 1: One insect, two lives – Mon Ep 2: The beetle worth hearing – Wed Ep 3: From campus to forest – Fri It's a story about pollinator stewardship, lesser-known pollinators, and our connections to the ProPollSoil project

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes, there are bumble bees in Alaska! And they're very interesting. This #BugBanterPodcast, Dr. Hollis Woodard is sharing her research on bees and monitoring their populations! 🏔️🐝 Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/a... Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMNh...

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Javier Galeano @galeanojav.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

1/9 Why do some pollinators visit dozens of plants while others visit almost none? Our new study in the Journal of Animal Ecology explains how plant-pollinator networks emerge from what individuals do, not just what species they belong to.🧵

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In the second video of our “Voices of BUTTERFLY” series, meet Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani🦋. Ali is an agricultural economist. He simulates the macroeconomic effects of pollinator decline to help decision-makers and politicians anticipate and counteract these effects.

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Annie Leonard @annieleonard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy that our #NSF-funded research on the temporal stability of wild #bees' pollen nutrition is now published! Basic funding into what bees need is so important and feeling imperiled lately. Open access article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Wild bees occupy temporally stable pollen nutritional niches - Oecologia

As bees’ primary source of protein and lipids, pollen is a nutritional resource key to the persistence of wild populations. Because bee taxa may differ in their pollen macronutrient requirements, and ...

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 22/07/2026

#Europe is hindering its own efforts to protect bees, butterflies and other #pollinators, say 135 researchers. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social et al. warn of serious consequences for #biodiversity and food security. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Bees make an important contribution to the pollination of wild plants and fruit trees: on the left, a honeybee on the flower of a sweet cherry; on the right, a bumblebee on a chicory. (Photos: Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter / University of Würzburg)

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Now in 15 languages! (latest addtion: Οι επικονιαστές είναι η αόρατη υποδομή της Ευρώπης on Wired)

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Read the @valor-project.eu newsletter with pollinator news from @butterfly-project.bsky.social's sister project preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1107...

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Welcome to the new edition of the VALOR newsletter

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🧵3/3 Pollinators are woven into ecosystems through complex life cycles, habitats and ecological interactions. To care for pollinators, we must care for the systems that sustain them. 🦋🌳 🔗 More about wood-eating beetles: theconversation.com/wood-beetles... #ButterflyEU #PollinatorStewardship

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Wood beetles are nature’s recyclers – with a little help from fungi

It’s thanks to decomposition brought about by beetles and fungi that we’re not all buried under dead organic matter.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🧵2/3 Longhorn beetle as an adult visits flowers and helps move pollen between plants. But that is only one chapter of its life. Before becoming a pollinator, it spent years hidden inside dead wood. Its larvae recycle nutrients locked in fallen trees, helping forests function and grow.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🧵1/3 What does a pollinator sound like? Sometimes... like this. 🪲🎵 Turn up the volume. ⬇️ video with sound (longhorn beetle - Stragnalia) ⬇️

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polli.NET @pollinet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Uma edição PT do documento conjunto 'Rumo à salvaguarda dos polinizadores em todas as políticas' já está disponível. Este analisa como a incoerência nas políticas pode dificultar a recuperação dos polinizadores e apresenta 15 recomendações para ação. 🐝🌼 butterfly-europe.eu/en/wp-conten...

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

News about the Joint White Paper "Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration" (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) Now in 14 languages! Share these stories with your national policy makers butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...

https://butterfly-europe.eu/media-coverage-of-joint-white-paper-towards-pollinator-stewardship-in-all-policies/

Eight EU projects propose a roadmap to reverse the wild pollinator decline - Funded by the European Union

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Without pollinators, entire supply chains begin to falter. Yet wild bees, hoverflies, butterflies, moths and beetles are under increasing pressure across Europe. A European White Paper (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) with the involvement of Prof. Dr. Sara Diana Leonhardt... www.ls.tum.de/en/ls/public...

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Bestäuber-Schutz in der EU: White Paper mit TUM Beteiligung

Bestäuber wie Wildbienen, Falter und Käfer sind bedroht. Ein White Paper mit TUM-Beteiligung fordert stärkeren Schutz in der EU-Politik.

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Rumo à salvaguarda dos polinizadores em todas as políticas A incoerência das políticas na UE constitui um importante obstáculo ao restauro dos polinizadores Traduzido do inglês (zenodo.org/records/2071...) por @jloureiro13.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/en/wp-conten...

Sumário executivo
Os polinizadores são fundamentais para a resiliência das funções societais vitais, a
competitividade e a segurança alimentar da Europa. Os polinizadores são essenciais
para a produção agrícola, a reprodução e evolução das plantas silvestres, a resiliência
dos ecossistemas, a segurança alimentar, as culturas alimentares, a conservação da
natureza terrestre, a subsistência, a saúde e o bem-estar humanos, a competitividade,
a economia, a estética da paisagem e a identidade local, o sentimento de pertença e a
ligação à natureza, contribuindo, em última instância, para a segurança e a estabilidade
política. A dependência da Europa em relação aos polinizadores aumentou nas últimas
décadas.
A integração da salvaguarda dos polinizadores nas diferentes áreas de política que
os afetam é indispensável para alcançar as metas juridicamente vinculativas da UE
relativas ao restauro da diversidade de polinizadores e à reversão do seu declínio. As
principais áreas de política que devem integrar a salvaguarda dos polinizadores
incluem a agricultura, o ambiente, os produtos químicos, a investigação e a inovação,
o comércio, as finanças, o planeamento, a legislação e a educação.
A Europa possui uma grande riqueza de espécies de polinizadores selvagens, mas
estas encontram-se ameaçadas por múltiplas pressões. As borboletas diurnas e
noturnas constituem os grupos mais numerosos de polinizadores selvagens, seguidas
pelos escaravelhos, pelas vespas e abelhas e pelas moscas. Todos são essenciais para
os ecossistemas naturais e muitos são cruciais para as paisagens cultivadas, a
agricultura e a floresta. Muitas espécies de polinizadores selvagens estão em declínio e
muitas são exclusivas do continente europeu, o que confere aos países europeus uma
responsabilidade particular de agir. As abelhas-do-mel sob gestão apícola são
consideradas animais de produção e não estão em declínio, mas enfrentam problemas
de saúde das colónias em muitos países europeus.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Meet Noa Simón Delso in the first video of our “Voices of BUTTERFLY” series 🦋 Noa works at the interface between science, decision-makers and other actors. She explains how Butterfly treats the human dimension of pollinator decline as one of the project’s central pillars. @beelifeeu.bsky.social

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hoe kunnen we bestuivers beter helpen? Ecologisch onderzoeker @buitenanne.bsky.social trok er met een visnet op uit om insecten te vangen en te onderzoeken welke maatregelen bijdragen aan een gezondere leefomgeving voor bestuivers. @butterfly-project.bsky.social avs.be/nieuws/europ...

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Europees onderzoek rond toekomst bijen, hommels en vlinders

Hoe kunnen we bestuivers zoals bijen, hommels en vlinders beter helpen? Die vraag stond centraal in een Europees onderzoek in een vlasveld bij Oostburg.…

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Europees onderzoek voor toekomst hommels, bijen en vlinders Het onderzoek is voor @buitenanne.bsky.social erg belangrijk. Dat de velden steeds minder vol zijn met bijen en vlinders kan uiteindelijk betekenen dat de aarde voor ons minder leefbaar wordt. www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/18523...

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Europees onderzoek in vlasveld Oostburg: 'Voor toekomst hommels, bijen en vlinders'

Ecologisch onderzoeker Annemarie Dekker trok er met een visnet op uit om insecten te vangen.

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Unsung Heroes of Pollination shows a hidden world of pollination, where flies, wasps, mosquitoes, bats and beetles take centre stage. Naturalists, gardeners, citizen scientists and flower enthusiasts are invited to journey into the undergrowth with Peter Bernhardt www.publishing.csiro.au/book/8200

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

News on our Joint White Paper ***Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies*** in 9 languages: +Dutch +English +Finish +French +Indonesian +Italian +Norwegian +Polish +Spanish Forward widely to your national networks @butterfly-project.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...

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Media coverage of Joint White Paper “Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies”

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