May 2021
Celebrating bees on World Bee Day – Getting to know them better!
The authors Irene Bottero is a 3rd year PhD student in Botany (Trinity College Dublin). She is part of PoshBee project (https://poshbee.eu/) and in her thesis she is evaluating the impact of different habitat types on pollinators, specifically, honeybees, bumblebees, solitary bees, hoverflies, and butterflies. Elena Zioga is a 3rd year PhD student in Botany […]
Happy World Tuna Day!!
This picture shows Atlantic Bluefin Tunas (ABFT) (Thunnus thynnus) bursting through the surface to feed; just off Donegal (Ireland). ABFT are warm-blooded fish which display many physiological adaptations to regional endothermy in order to warm up their red muscle and increase their swimming performance. Swimming without stopping for thousands of kilometers every year: from spawning […]