I suspect the New York Times might be trivialising our field of study here but a nice puzzle to kick the day off #Entomology

Unknown wireworm help! The singular urogomphus is confusing myself and colleagues - can not for the life of me find an answer and it's seemingly not in 'Die Käffer Mitteleuropas: Larven 2' though my German is stodgy. Found in East, UK. Anyone point me in the right direction? @colsocbi.bsky.social

An amazing day spent behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum looking at their Entomology collections! What a fantastic day! 🪲

Thank you @nhm-london.bsky.social, what a day for it! @hau-entomology.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Last but not least, the Lepidoptera - some excellent anecdotes about record-breaking proboscises and fenugreek smelling moths @hau-entomology.bsky.social

Of course we have @flygirlnhm.bsky.social taking us through the Diptera - from the cute and fluffy beeflies to the weird and wonderful stalk-eyed flies on to the (to the non-entomological populace anyway) macabre botflies @hau-entomology.bsky.social

And to the most massive of all (in terms of size and species), the Coleoptera. Lots of Darwin and Wallace chat of course, and the joys of dung-baited pitfall trapping!

From the massive to the miniscule with the marvellous @gavinbroad.bsky.social talking (mainly wasps!) through the hymenoptera - @hau-entomology.bsky.social

And we're off - annual trip to the @nhm-london.bsky.social Entomology collections for BSc and MSc Entomology and IPM students @hau-entomology.bsky.social. As always thanks to @flygirlnhm.bsky.social for organisation and all of the curators for sharing their wealth of knowledge

Thankful the weather has allowed for some surveying transects of the @harperadamsuni.bsky.social campus today with final year @hau-entomology.bsky.social students. A great way to see out the module and practice ID skills in the field

Great to be able to step in last minute and deliver the #YoungVerrall this year. Thoroughly enjoyed it and @hau-entomology.bsky.social had a great representation at #SISF2025 too!

It was a genuine honour to step in and deliver the Young Verrall Lecture last minute. I may have been a substitute but a highlight for sure! Some excellent questions from a crowd of future entomologists @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social @hau-entomology.bsky.social

Huge turnout for @hau-entomology.bsky.social at Shropshire Entomology Day today at #FSC Preston Montford. Biggest attendance yet with over 20 students and staff amongst local entomologists and national experts in their field. Photos and posts all day!

Great PhD opportunity - at the same place I did mine!

The new sign looks great but I'm now just about ready for the trap not to be on when leaving the office! Thankfully we've had the latest sunset for the year

The #Christmas Aphid is up on the tree. Bringing Christmas spirit, good cheer, and vectoring viruses straight into your Norwegian pine. Needles gone by Boxing Day. Christmas Aphid - Ho Ho Homoptera!

Always a good module to finish on before the winter break. A good test run for experiment problem solving before students undertake MSc projects

Day 1 of the week-long @harperadamsuni.bsky.social postgraduate experimental design and analysis module today. Always an intensive week but good to meet students across course areas. New computer labs incoming thanks to efforts from @joe-roberts.bsky.social too! #rstats

Here is a list of IPM Guidance for UK Growers on FarmPep linking to full content on H2020 IPMWorks toolbox. The guides were produced by ADAS with SRUC TheAHDB NFU and others during development of the IPM Tool farmpep.net/resource/ipm... #agextension #IPM #farming

🌱 Silicon soil treatments help protect cowpeas from aphids! Our study shows it boosts Lutembwe variety's natural defenses. Exciting implications for sustainable farming in Zambia 🇿🇲 Full paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s118... #AgriScience #FoodSecurity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We've now officially moved here as our main social media account! Thanks to those who have already made it, and we look forward to spreading the @harperadamsuni.bsky.social entomology word here from now on! Find more of HAU's entomology group here: linktr.ee/hau_entomology

Two PhD projects advertised for #MIBTP with me and the team @hau-entomology.bsky.social Details in reply below! Sharing and reposts are appreciated. Apply here, by 16th Jan 2025: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Looks like @bsky.app is going to be the place to be for @hau-entomology.bsky.social and my regular outreach site! Intermittently over on Instagram. Looking forward to getting back to regular posting and interaction. linktr.ee/bclunie

Gloriously sunny offer holder day @HarperAdamsUni for prospective Zoology & Entomology undergraduates today - @DrJohnReade & I taking talks and activities. Owl pellet dissection and Freshwater invertebrates. See below for course details... www.harper-adams.ac.uk/courses/unde...

First days sampling on the robotic strip cropping project - with Ed Dickin and Paul O'Hagan from @HarperAdamsUni at NP Holloway & Son field site nr Lichfield. Pan traps, pitfalls and my #007 audition shot. Next bond...?

Fitting for a first Bluesky post. Completed set up today for the #HarperAdamsUni branch of the #RothamstedRIS moth trapping survey. Looking forward to kicking off our contribution to a vital national resource - right on the Ento building doorstep!