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valentin-almada.bsky.social
Ecologist | PhD Student | Plants and Bees 🇦🇷
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Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine. https://buff.ly/4jnWk82

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Diversity of bees during flowering of onion crops in a xeric environment | Ramello et al. 2024 Revista de la Sociedad EntomolĂłgica Argentina www.researchgate.net/publication/... #horticulture #onion #wildbees #anthophila #argentina #sanjuan

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

De un tiempo acá veo con frecuencia el uso de la palabra “forrajear” para hablar del comportamiento de recolecta de polen por parte de las abejas y me parece una traducción errónea y fea de la lengua del imperio. En español-castellano tenemos “pecorear”, mucho más nuestra. ¡Os animo a que la uséis!

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

This is my attempt to build a wild bee-researcher starter pack for folks to find awesome people doing awesome wild bee research! Feel free to suggest yourself as I'm sure this'll start out as a pack of my collaborators and other admired researchers! go.bsky.app/PrjzU94

submitted 107 days ago • 31 comments

Macho de Eufriesea violacea (Blanchard) atraĂ­da con vainillin en Misiones, Argentina

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky! Trying to build my academic profile here now. Two species of carpenter bees (Xylocopa frontalis and Xylocopa augusti) searching for nectar on Erythrina crista-galli flowers. La Plata National University. La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments