On 11 August 2025, the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences (INC-PAS) presented research from the PollinERA project at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 13th Young Environmental Scientists (YES) Meeting in York, United Kingdom. The meeting brings together early-career researchers and the wider research community working in enviromental science. 

A poster presentation titled Evaluating Osmia bicornis as a Model Organism in Ecological Risk Assessment: A Comparison to Other Pollinator Species was delivered, showing results generated within the Work Package (WP) 1 Pollinator exposure and sensitivity of PollinERA.

Poster for Evaluating Osmia bicornis as a Model Organism in Ecological Risk Assessment: A Comparison to Other Pollinator Species

The presentation summarised experiments assessing the effects of two insecticides the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) a PollinERA study spicies and the peacock butterfly (Aglais io) through both oral and topical exposures.

Aglais io - Monaco Nature Encyclopaedia 

The work was carried out by Agnieszka Bernarska and Dominika Twarog from INC-PAS, with involvement of another partner institution Jagiellonian University (JU)