Starting on #WorldEarthDay, we are taking part in #BigGive #EarthRaise 🌍
#StandTallForTheSmall & help us raise funds to bring free, accessible #InsectScience directly to young people with limited access to nature and science education.
Donate from 22–29 April - Spread the word! 🔽
New bite sized wildlife news from around the world! m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Yc...
Oppressive heat. Species extinctions. Pollution-choked skies.
This is the future that awaits the world unless humanity takes dramatic steps to end a series of mushrooming environmental crises, finds #GEO7.
Read more: https://ow.ly/58Rj50YGrjM
Thank you fellow alumni!
@beetlequeen.bsky.social
Found this little guy on my walk yesterday! Am I able to get a cheeky identification please? xx
Wowee! So cool! I think you have the violet oil beetle there! If you can take a really in focus pic I may have a use for it :) cdn.buglife.org.uk/2019/08/Oil-...
Harpalinae, one of the largest subfamilies of beetles in the world with ~19,000 species, but not as you know it! #taxonomy #systematics #entomology #MuseumCollections resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The new Issue of #RESSystematicEnt is now open!
The first article reports on how #UCE #phylogenomics improves the classification of the cosmopolitan pit-building #antlion tribe Myrmeleontini (#Neuroptera: #Myrmeleontidae: Myrmeleontinae)
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70040
@gkergoat.bsky.social
How do firefly bottoms glow? Find out here 👇🏻 💡 music.youtube.com/watch?v=2qNL...
Very excited to be part of this exciting new journal on methods in #InsectScience
Discover the beetle tree of life! Explore how scientists map relationships among one of Earth’s most diverse creatures and uncover their evolutionary secrets.
youtu.be/Pg47Lktz4Ag
@beetlequeen.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social
Front cover of the book The Lives of Frogs, featuring a male Ranitomeya fantastica (fantastic poison frog) carrying a tadpole on its back
It's #worldfrogday! Buy my book! It was written especially for World Frog Day. Also World Book Day. Also your birthday. Also Xmas day. Also all the days of the week. Every day is frog day!
The deadline for this year's LinneSys approaches!
You have until Fri, March 27th at 23:59 GMT+1
If you're looking for a small grant for systematics work, get your application in ASAP systass.org/linnesys/
Just become a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social first!
Good morning from the @nhm-london.bsky.social Spring has officially sprung as the ladybirds emerge here at our great institution and natural spaces 🐞 🍃
New #research in #RESEcolEnt
From primary #forest to human-modified habitats: Impacts of #LandUseChange on Amazonian #GroundBeetle #diversity
doi.org/10.1111/een.70079
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
Photo credit: Laura Londoño Alejo
Look who is giving a Royal Institute Lecture 😉...on flies..can you believe it....
Very excited to be giving a talk about the Life Cycles of Flies - the vast and splendid adaptations undertaken by these little marvels..
www.rigb.org/whats-on/met...
Dung beetle 101 m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKpZ...
Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature
go.nature.com/4ua5R82
Opinion piece speaking the truth on the state of the science of #taxonomy by Art Borkent. Case in point busy writing the @RoyEntSoc handbook to the biting midges 🪰 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Museum never sleeps! Demonstrating how to pin beetles and flies for entry into the NHM collections and spreading the good word on just how great and important insects are for the health of the Earth.
Looking forward to Coleopterists Day on Saturday 21st. It’s not too late to drop all your weekend plans and head over to the excellent World Museum Liverpool for a day of beetle talks and behind the scenes at the entomology collection 🪲
With over 400,000 described species, Coleoptera represent one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth, necessitating a global, integrative approach to understanding their evolutionary history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg47...
Cover of book Pan-species Listing by Graeme Lyons.
Really enjoying this by @graemelyons.bsky.social
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
#PanSpeciesListing
It’s been a very wet few weeks in the UK – but we’re far from the rainiest place on Earth! ☔
The Amazon is around twice as wet, as the forest helps generate rain. This rainfall is worth billions to Brazil's economy, which might help stop deforestation.
Find out more 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Please enjoy the delightful @beetlequeen.bsky.social telling us about witchy plants and lovable bums! m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qNL... 🌱 🐛 Plus some penis fencing flatworms… 🤺
A belated Valentines themed podcast which was so much fun with the inimitable @nhcooper123.bsky.social and @joshlukedavis.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qNL... 🧙♀️ 🧹 Caution: do not take lessons in seduction from a scientist 🤓
What a joy to be speaking on the diversity of beetles in London’s Royal Parks at the Friends of Regents Park and Primrose Hill meeting @theroyalparks such appreciation for London’s green spaces and urban forests 🌳
Saturday 21st February is the annual Coleopterists Day! We hope to see many of our beetle supporters at the World Museum Liverpool on the day 🪲 🙌🏻
The programme for 2026 Coleopterists Day is here...