#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Observation suggests that when migrating #bumblebee queens arrive at large bodies of #water they often follow the shore line but are equally likely to fly across the water/sea to continue their journey!
#bees

#nature
#wildlife
#biodiversity
#environment
#insects
#science
#education
#worldbeesanctuary

U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to reopen the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, arguing it won’t harm marine species and will support the industry.

Conservationists say the protected area is a vital sanctuary — and warn of wider rollbacks affecting other U.S. marine monuments.

by Edward Carver
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/trump-opens-only-us-marine-national-monument-in-atlantic-to-fishing-again/

#news #biodiversity #environment #environmentalpolicy #environmentalpolitics #fishing #marineprotectedareas

Great opportunity to interact with the French Community of Ecological Theory: "Biodiversity in Equations" Conference in Montpellier, France on April 9 and 10, 2026, organized by GDR TheoMoDive and SFE2.
Registration is free! Find more info here: https://biodiveq.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en

@Soniakefi @efronhofer

#science #ecology #conference #theory #modelling #montpellier #france #biodiversity #sfe2

From this evening’s walk through the woods.

#ithasbegun #salamander #amphibians #germany #biodiversity

Un des organismes les plus "joueurs" avec les plongeurs bio :
<< c'est un #vers tubicole ?! hé bé non ! :-P >> .
Le vermet géant a dorénavant sa fiche !

MÜLLER Yves, LE GRANCHÉ Philippe in : #DORIS, 11/02/2026 :
Thylacodes grandis (Gray, 1842), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/3823

#biodiversite #Mollusca #gastropoda #Vermetidae #biodiversity #ffessm #IndoPacific #tubicole #carapace

🦠 Life can flourish in Earth’s most hostile corners. What does that resilience suggest about where life could persist beyond Earth?

✍️ Read the full exploration: https://TPC8.short.gy/mgHJjLGk

Perhaps the cosmos holds more tenacious possibilities than we expect.

#Astrobiology #Extremophiles #Tardigrades #Habitability #Biodiversity #Cosmos #Microbes #Science #LifeBeyondEarth #Biology #TPC8

#WildlifeWednesday quick quiz, can you name this hummingbird in just one note (bonus points if you recognize the out of focus tail in the upper left)

El Zoque, Colombia, answer in Alt Text

#Bird #Birding #hummingbird #wildlife #biodiversity #nature #neotropics #BirdsOfMastodon #Photograph #BirdPhotography