iHORNETS

iHORNETS: European citizen science app to monitor hornet abundance in apiaries How many hornets are present around apiaries? Do abundance levels change between regions or countries? And how can this information be monitored consistently at a European scale? These are some of the questions behind iHORNETS, a new citizen science mobile application specifically designed for beekeepers —…

Biological invasions in Europe

Within the AlienScenarios project, we distributed a survey among managers across Europe to understand their perceptions of trends in biological invasions and management practices. The details of the survey and the main results are outlined in the following scientific paper. To make the results accessible to everyone, we created the following platform that displays the…

Control of invasions: Vespa velutina

Avaluació de la utilitat de les arpes elèctriques per reduir la pressió de la vespa asiàtica en explotacions apícoles (VELUTINA) La vespa asiàtica (Vespa velutina ssp. nigrithorax) és una espècie invasora originària de la Xina. Es va introduir accidentalment a França l’any 2004 mitjançant el transport de mercaderies i s’ha estès fins ara a 8…