Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco

Biologist 🕷️🐙🦉🌺
Msc in terrestrial ecology and biodiversity management 📚
Bug lover 🐝🪲 studying the evolution of sociality in insects

[Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ri_caliari]

Come and see me talking about the inner lives of ants, bees, and wasps this Thursday at 12:00 at CreafTalks (also online): "Cooperation, Conflicts, and Emerging Traits in Social Insects". 🐜🐝 @CREAF_ecologia 👉 https://t.co/fkwc7wb0H3

[Erik Frank @ETF1989]

New wound care behavior in ants! Here we show how ants amputate the leg of injured conspecifics (a first in the animal kingdom)! Interestingly, amputations are not always the best strategy to care for a wound and ants have adapted their treatment accordingly. A 🧵... (1/6)

[Viviana Di Pietro @dipietroviviana]

Two years ago I was doing fieldwork working with this amazing model system, my Twitter post went viral! Today, the paper on nest architecture in Scaptotrigona depilis is out in @CurrentBiology! You can download the full paper here https://t.co/lvFOer4EX4

[Erik Frank @ETF1989]

New paper on wound care in ants! Here we show that nestmates treat infected wounds more than sterile ones and that they use a battery of antimicrobial compounds to do so! This was a massive interdisciplinary project so let me tease it apart: (1/9)
https://t.co/lDMerxkxfV

[Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ri_caliari]

Check out the #SciComm piece on our recent paper. We showcase the remarkable adaptability of #honeybees in adjusting their social structure and buffering colony perturbations (and explain why it matters). Also available in Spanish and Catalan.

https://t.co/YnvaHwuTUV

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

Ha estat un plaer poder tornar a casa a fer una mica de difusió sobre ciència i formigues 🐜 espero haver aconseguit encomanar el respecte i l'admiració als insectes! Gràcies per l'oportunitat!

[Institut Guindavols @Guindavols]

Magnifica conferència del nostre ex-alumne Daniel Saureu: Una mirada evolutiva a la vida de les formigues, en el marc de la #sc23cat
És un orgull per nosaltres rebre-us de nou al centre i que ens aporteu noves idees i nou coneixement. Gràcies @DaniSaureu
#28setmanadelaciència

[Horace Zeng @horacezhl]

I wrote a review on the functions of 🐜 queen pheromones shown explicitly with behavioral experiments, with a strong focus on the natural histories. >> https://t.co/0QLg3aOWmF Here is a summary figure-

[Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ri_caliari]

🐝 Our new study highlights honeybees' impressive adaptability to challenges. Colonies swiftly adapt their workforce and social interactions after major forager losses, boosting resilience for what lies ahead 🌍 great work by Elias Beck & @TWenseleers 🍯

https://t.co/oxsLiBSdeG

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

Super happy with the results of my MSc thesis 🐜 I had lots of fun and I learned A LOT. Really looking forward to learning more about these fantastic animals! #Tapinoma #darioi

Thanks so much @ri_caliari for your more than excellent direction!

[Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ri_caliari]

Today, @DaniSaureu & @myriapoda_s presented their master theses, studying maternal control of caste fate in ants and preadaptations to sociality in bees, at the MSc in Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity Management program from @Biociencies_UAB. Well done, guys!!🥳🐜🐝🥳

[CREAF @CREAF_ecologia]

Aquesta d'aquí és la #formiga roja del foc i és notícia (malauradament) 🥴 Un estudi liderat per l'@IBE_Barcelona, en el qual hem col·laborat, adverteix que JA s'ha establert a Europa i podríem tenir-la aviat a Catalunya 🐜🚨 Què en sabem?

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

Giant resin bees are the first ever recorded invasive species of bee here in Europe. It seems the expanse of this species is highly facilitated by antrhopogenic factors. I recommend reading Lanner et al. (2022) for more information 🐝.

https://t.co/aqTmiGKZ96

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

Here's a sped up video (5x ⏩) of the pinning process for the preservation of this 'Megachile sculpturalis' specimen I found dead in the UAB campus!

[CREAF @CREAF_ecologia]

La vespa asiàtica és una espècie invasora i conflictiva, sí 🐝 PERÒ hi ha d'altres #insectes bastant semblants i no podem confondre'ls! Aquesta guia de la @DiputacioGirona @tonixllobet per diferenciar-los és molt útil😍👇

[Pavel Pavelich @ELAULLIDO1]

Nuestra gran hormiga ibérica ('Camponotus cruentatus') ejerciendo de polinizador de flores y descomponedor de materia orgánica, dos papeles ecológicos vitales para la vida de nuestros montes.
ZEC 'El Carrascal'-Red Natura 2000
(Quintanilla de Abajo, Valladolid)

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

In this two videos you can see a colony of harvester ants of the species #Messor #barbarus carefully gathering elm seeds of the #Ulmus #minor tree. Found yesterday while walking through the UAB campus with @patris013

[CREAF @CREAF_ecologia]

⚠️Perdem pol·linitzadors⚠️ L’últim segle s’han detectat declivis molt importants en la diversitat i abundància d’insectes pol·linitzadors, sobretot abelles i papallones, a tota Europa 📉 P.e., un estudi d’Alemanya assenyala pèrdues d’insectes voladors del 75% els últims 25 anys🥴

[Myrmecological News @MyrmecolNews]

🆕blogpost: "Ant phylogenomics"
Romiguier & colleagues discuss how the evolution of eusociality has allowed ants to become such successful organisms. The authors focus on the formicoids, a clade of 9 subfamilies that exhibit extreme forms of colony size...
https://t.co/laVYM4LPXI

[Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ri_caliari]

Had a blast exploring the #biodiversity of #arthropods at the #bioblitz @UABBarcelona! With the help of a great team of students Mar, Nana, Patricia & @DaniSaureu 🙌

[Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco @DaniSaureu]

El jueves 30 de marzo nos vemos a las 18:00 para hablar de las hormigas y el papel que juegan en la polinización y dispersión de semillas... Nos vemos? 😏🐜

No os olvidéis de echar un vistazo a las otras tres charlas sobre polinizadores! Gracias @iberozoa por organizarlas 🐜🐝🪻