It was a lovely first day of #ECN2025!! 🥰Thanks to the presenters and organizers for all the wonderful sessions! The effort to provide a virtual format is really appreciated 😊🐞💚.

Huge welcome to all you lovely folks joining us today, both in-person and online! Great to have so many first-timers! Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social! #ECN2025

Hi @gbif.org. Last time I tried it didn't work but I'm still interested in volunteering for GRSciColl! 😊 I have valuable contacts with collections across Latin America 💚. Let me know! 😁

October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿

Thanks to the KU Office of Research for the spotlight! Happy to be part of the @kunhm.bsky.social and continue contributing to preserving and digitizing the collections 🩵. #KUEntomology #PostdocAppreciationWeek #KUSEMC ➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...

It's #WeevilWednesday! Perfect day to introduce our #Symbiota Weevil Portal! Still under construction, but already with some data. This beautiful Curculio, deposited in #KUSEMC, was originally digitized in #Specify and has been mobilized to our portal 💚. ➡️ weevil.symbiota.org/portal/colle...

Don't miss this important webinar today, during the webinar series by #iDigBio "Sustaining collections digitization beyond NSF funding", featuring @gbif.org: ➡️ ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today, we are celebrating our Independence Day in #Guatemala. I'm proud to keep contributing to my country from afar, helping local collections to share their data online 🇬🇹🌎. Thanks to the #Symbiota team for making it possible, and to the amazing #BiodiversityData community for their support 🥰💚.

The KU Entomology group is growing! So many ideas and so much work to do! 🥰🐞🦋🐝

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

#LivingData is quickly approaching 😱. Who is going to Bogota? 🥳. Who is attending remotely? 🌎. You can't miss our presentations (in English and Spanish) about #Symbiota and our collaborations with collections all over the world to make their data available 💚🌎. ➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...

A long weekend was perfect to catch up on digitization 🥰. Let us know if you want your own profile to digitize and mobilize your arthropod/plant/vertebrate/fungi/fossil data 💚: [email protected]. #Symbiota ➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞

It's amazing to see our beautiful @guatemalaportal.bsky.social back online 🥰. I'm forever grateful to the #Symbiota team for their commitment to maintaining such incredible tools and making them accessible to the global #collections community 💚.

First full day of the #WeevilCourse2025 at the Southwestern Research Station, AZ! Awesome lectures, demonstrations and subfamilies identification 😄. #Curculionoidea #Weevils

Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections

Tried out my new blacklight funnels I built. Got chased off the eastern New Mexico plains by a nasty thunderstorm, but less than an hour produced quite a few beetles!

#LiteratureNotice Chatzimanolis & Brunke. Revisiting Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Xanthopygina), with an Updated Key and a #NewSpecies from Guatemala doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles

I had a wonderful time with the collection managers in Guatemala, sharing some updates about #Symbiota and our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social. It was great to visit the collections and learn more about their biodiversity projects 🥰🇬🇹🌿🍄🐞.

Want to set up your own photo-stacking imaging system for under $3000? This post which outlines all the off-the-shelf items I used this year along with some recommendations for how to use it. Planning to talk about this at @entcollnet.bsky.social this November, too! www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...

Extremely happy to be in Guatemala for a short vacation+a bit of work in the collections 🥰🐞🍄🇬🇹.

Looking for #weevils, but chrysomelids will always catch my eye 🔎. Collected recently by @taxonbytes.bsky.social in Kansas. Digital records live in Specify and will soon be mobilized to @gbif.org and Symbiota 💚. #BornDigital #SEMC #KUNHM

Welcome to KU, everyone! 😄 #SPNHC2025

Every time I find King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) I look for the Cramp-ball Fungus Weevil (platyrhinus resinosus). They feed and breed on this fungi. I rarely find them… so when I do it’s so exciting! Remarkable creatures. @lukaslarge.bsky.social #weevil

Great opportunity to present your research generating, sharing or using biodiversity data. Abstracts due on May 20: www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.html #LivingData2025 #TDWG2025

So cool!

For #WeevilWednesday — a 106-year-old specimen of an anthribid, Toxonotus fascicularis (Schönherr 1833), described by its collector, Willis Blatchley, as "a prettily marked medium sized anthribid frequent on the dead branches" of saffron plum, Sideroxylon celastrinum.

Huge congratulations to Poliana Vilhena and Jose Mermudes for this paper 😍. There's only one specimen of Dasyrhopala Jordan in #ASUCOB (now on loan at KU 🩵) and it will finally have a name! #Anthribidae

It's a beautiful day here in Lawrence! We can't wait to have you all here for #SPNHC2025 in less than a month!! Make sure you sign up for the tour to the Entomological Collection, we have so many cool specimens to show you 😁. www.gbif.org/dataset/aae3...

The #Symbiota Support Hub recently moved to the University of Kansas. Most of the team works remotely, but we met here at KU earlier this month 🥰. Lots to do, great new colleagues (Specify, Biodiversity Institute), and a growing passion to continue supporting collections everywhere. Stay tuned! 💚

So cool to see specimens from a loan (now returned to my current institution) already updated on GBIF and @bionomia.net 🥰. Big thanks to the SEMC team for prioritizing this task 😄. bionomia.net/profile

Applications are open for the next #WeevilCourse! www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-cours... @coleopsoc.bsky.social

BTW, don't forget to check the list of wonderful sessions for the next #SPNHC Meeting! Send your abstracts and come to visit us at KU! Deadline 10 March 2025. spnhc2025.ku.edu/sessions

Off to a good start at KU! Many more anthribids to come! 🥰 #Anthribidae #KUNHM

If anyone outside the UK would like to apply for a Fellowship at Bristol I’d happily support an application if the project was of interest 🐝🌸🦋 royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

#Proposals or #nominations for our honors, #awards, and #grants are due on March 1. More info and requirements at www.coleopsoc.org/society-info...

Not easy to find #BlueAnthribids, but this Phaenithon caeruleus Jordan has beautiful metallic blue shine 🥰 (the pictures don't do it justice). #BlueBeetles #BlueWeevils #BlueMonday #BlueBugs #ASUCOB 💙

Re-sharing this image for #BlueMonday . This is NOT a jewel wasp ( #Chrysididae ), but rather a velvet-ant ( #Mutillidae ). I know, right? #BlueBugs #Bluetillidae #BlueVelvet (-ant) [RIP David Lynch]

Good morning! Here is a fancy blue rove beetle to start your day. Rove beetles are a family of beetles distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers). Most are predators of other insects. (Plochionocerus sp.) Mindo, Ecuador #BlueMonday #BlueBugs

Today, help me Brighten up #BlueMonday by sharing some beautiful BLUE INSECTS! #BlueBugs 🧪🦋🔬 Blue is one of the most spellbinding colours in nature, isn’t it? These scarab beetles are one of my favourite examples... 📷 Blue-Violet Chafer (Hoplia coerulea) 👇

Our planet is full of natural jewels. Most Natural History Collections, archives of the planet's biological diversity, are under-resourced—some direly so. Support #NaturalHistoryCollections ! That is all. Another early #BlueMonday post #MacroPhotography #FocusStacking

And for this #WeevilWednesday, a cute Gymnognathus abundans Jordan, from #Guatemala 💙. biodiversidad.gt/portal/taxa/...

We are still working hard to update and maintain our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social 🥰. Look how beautiful this species page looks with digitized records, maps, publications, conservation assessments, and the amazing CC0 images shared by the Smithsonian NMNH ➡️ biodiversidad.gt/portal/taxa/... #Symbiota

It's been a lovely break in Guatemala 🥰. Today, I visited some collections and shared some special souvenirs with curators and volunteers. Thanks to #Symbiota, #iDigBio and all the biodiversity data community for all the support to our digitization efforts 🥰. See you all soon at KU!

Okay, fess up. Who dropped the glitter?! #WeevilWednesday… 🧵

Happy 2025, everyone!!! 🥳🥳🥳🐞🐞🐞

Happy #WeevilWednesday - this broad-nosed weevil looks like it's been dipped in licorice sprinkles (zoom in). Seen on creosote at night in CA's Anza-Borrego Desert. Guessing it's in the same genus (Ophryastes) as a similar, smaller one I found 2 weeks ago in the Mojave, but not sure. #insects 🐙🌿

Wonderful results in the US from lots of initiatives and projects enabled and supported by #iDigBio 🥰🥰🥰 (including #Symbiota 💚).

will always re-post shiny weevils ✨🪲

It’s been a year since the “People Identifiers Roundtrip to Collection Management Systems” workshop, bionomia.net/workshops. Presentations still are a great summary of our activities.

Anyone else ever experience Eupholus Euphoria? #WeevilWednesday #NaturalHistoryCollections #FeelingBlue