We are excited to roll out a new t-shirt this year. We are working with a local artist to produce a new design. The new shirts and other new merch will be available for purchase at this years ESBC meeting.

Registration is now open for the ESBC 2025 (Nov 21st – 22nd, Univ. of Fraser Valley Abbotsford). The conference theme this year is "Better together: celebrating partnerships from micro to macro". For details and to register please visit our meeting page - entsocbc.ca/meetings/

The latest issue [45(1)] of our newsletter, Boreus, is now available!

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete survey gathering data on observations of insects for a study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Especially in need of information from #Canada, #SouthAmerica, #Africa & #Australia!

Check out this article about the recent bioblitz at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest with an interview with ESBC's own Debra Wertman -

ESBC is happy to announce the 2025 recipients of our special project grants: Quinlan Wu, Karen Ashby and the Native Bee Society of BC (entsocbc.ca/special-proj...). More details about our special project grant can be found here (entsocbc.ca/awards-schol...).

The 2025 Entomological Society of British Columbia conference and annual general meeting will be held November 21-22, at the University of the Fraser Valley Abbotsford campus. Check our meeting page for more details as they are announced (entsocbc.ca/meetings/ ).

The BC Public Service has a posting for a provincial apiculture specialist. Application closes July 23. Full details here:

The BC Public Service has a posting for a provincial apiculture specialist. Application closes July 23. Full details here:

Reminder about this weekend's Insect BioBlitz at the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. Come out on Saturday or Sunday and log your sightings on iNaturalist. Synergy Semiochemicals will also be attending with insect traps and a display of pinned insects Full details here: entsocbc.ca/wp-content/u...

Here's my @inaturalist.bsky.social observation for this earwig. If anyone knows the species (auricularia?) please chime in. The crab spider (see it?) is a bit too blurry to be a good observation. I think the rose is likely either Rosa woodsii or R. acicularis. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated its list of detections of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Canada. Notable for residents of Ontario would be new detections in Norfolk County, and in the City of Toronto. See here: inspection.canada.ca/en/plant-hea...

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ESBC and UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest invite you to participate in an Insect BioBlitz event at on 5-6 July, 2025. Full details here: entsocbc.ca/wp-content/u...

"On not being a naturalist - but being one anyway". A more personal blog post than usual, reflecting on how I both don't, and do, fit in among my colleagues who study ecology and evolution. scientistseessquirre...

Join us!! 🧪 #academicSky #PhDsky

Friends of Uplands Park Society (FOUP) are partnering with CICADA to put on the 4th Insect Bioblitz in Uplands Park. The event will be held the weekend of June 20 to 22, 2025. Hoping you can attend and record your photo findings on iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org/projects/upl... ).

Field work in the forest involved being able to one of these and a topo map (and often flagging tape), or risking being hopelessly lost.

June is busting out all over! A pair of Badlands Tiger Beetles (Cicindela decemnotata) celebrating the arrival of warm spring weather in the Yukon. #Coleoptera

Save the Date — ESBC and UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest invite you to participate in an Insect BioBlitz event at on 5-6 July, 2025 -

#dragonflies #insects so excited to see this episode out about dragonflies and mantises! www.pbs.org/video/dragon...

Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 (@dezene.me) bsky.app/profile/deze...

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Checking in to a flight at Nanaimo Airport in British Columbia I was pleased to see this display on pollinators. I just had to share it.

In recognition of whoever the new pope is, here are some arthropods named after previous popes. 🪲🪳🧵 A cerambycid beetle (John Paul II), Aegomorphus wojtylai: baza.biomap.pl/pl/taxon/spe...

Join the Bumble Bee Project on April 8th from 12 - 1 pm to hear about project and other exciting results and how you can join Team Bee for one day of surveys, learn about bees and their threats, and help survey bumble bees during the summer of 2025. entsocbc.ca/bcs-communit...

Come join ESBC at the Beaver Lake BioBlitz: City Nature Challenge on Saturday Apr 26, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. We'll be exploring the forest surrounding Beaver Lake in Stanley Park while logging sightings on the iNaturalist app. Full details below:

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Now filling the 10th #Entomology #StarterPack! 🧪🪲🪰🕷️🐜🦋🕸️🐝🐛🪳🦗🐞🦟🧪 Not in one yet? Please nominate widely! 👇 go.bsky.app/JBdBKXJ Starter packs not your thing? Pin this list for a feed of > 1350 ento-focussed @bsky.app folks 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉