We think this must be the Very Short-winged Conehead, Conocephalus brachyptera, since we can't find any wings at all....thanks Glasgow and all at @royentsoc.bsky.social for a fab few days at #ento25!

All smiles on the Reading stand at #Ento25 today. Come see us at lunchtime on the ground floor if you're here! @royentsoc.bsky.social

Pin it to win it is back at #ento25! Come find us in the ground floor exhibition and test your entomological skills. Prizes for speed, quality and best overall. @royentsoc.bsky.social

It's starting soon… 🐜 We hope you are as excited as we are to welcome everyone to #Ento25 - just one day left! While you're waiting, why not find out more about the history of our annual flagship conference? 🔽 buff.ly/HFDlAWa Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! 🐝 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social

We and our insects are on our way to @royentsoc.bsky.social 25! Team Reading Entomology checking the precious cargo at Euston station. One slight casualty of mad taxi dash across London but nothing a bit of glue can't fix...

Insects from our 2nd year field course at Slapton Ley last week. Always a rewarding place to spend some time entomologising! IDs in alt text.

A wonderful week for undergraduate Entomology teaching at Reading whether in the labs or out on campus

@royentsoc.bsky.social are looking for new committee members to join the Events Committee 🦋 Interested in helping with events like #Ento2025 or #Verrall then consider applying! www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie... @hau-entomology.bsky.social @insectwrs.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social

It starts now 🦋 We need your help to support the endangered #LargeBlue butterfly. Starting today, this week only, your contributions will be DOUBLED - Help us raise £10,000 match funded via #BigGive Read more & donate between 22–29 April 🔽 buff.ly/BpXY1hY @gloswildlife.bsky.social #EarthDay

FULLY-FUNDED residential insect ID and field surveying summer school, organised by @oxfordconted.bsky.social, @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @biology.ox.ac.uk, for PhD students or early career researchers. 📅14-18 July 2025 Apply by 9 May: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/inse... 🧪 🌍 #academicsky 🐝

⏰LAST CALL! ⏰ The @royentsoc.bsky.social Insect Welfare Survey closes TODAY! If you work with insects in the UK take a moment to fill it out 🐝🦗🐞 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... @hau-entomology.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social

Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group has its 1st ever conference on Sun 27 April, Great Missenden. A great range of talks including Dr Chris Wilson's lecture in memory of Eric Hollowday, rotifer enthusiast extraordinaire & long-time member of BIG. Details & bookings: sites.google.com/site/bucksin...

I like big bugs and I cannot lie

Teaching Lepidoptera ID with @unirdgento.bsky.social today. A chance for me to brush up on my moth skills but mostly a good opportunity to have a look through the amazing pinned collection we have here 🦋

Alfred Waterhouse - architect for @nhm-london.bsky.social - also designed Foxhill House in Reading as his home. Now part of the University of Reading campus it was a comfortable destination for our @unirdgento.bsky.social data analysis 'away' day this week!

Palaeontology trilobite practical tomorrow and I’m hoping the students appreciate these wonderful trilobite eyes. #trilobite #palaeontologyatUoR #Colemuseumofzoology @unirdgento.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

Today I lecturing at @unirdgento.bsky.social on flies…but the wonderful @waspwoman.bsky.social is here talking about Wasps and their value We share a common issues of disliked hero’s!

@ionace.bsky.social and I identified and databased 6,600 UK ichneumonoids light-trapped by an amazing crew of moth trappers in 2024. Wonderful dataset. Recent highlights: first Rogas luteus for over 100 years and Enicospilus myricae, haven’t seen since I described it in 2016.

A few favourites from home and away for this year's #BlueMonday #BlueBugs campaign 1 Azure Damselfly, UK 2 Wasp (ID tbc) - part of our current insect rearing project in Panama. 📷 credit Marleny Rivera 3 Common Blue, UK 4 Jewel beetle, Panama

To make a change from all that gaudy metallic blue (joking, keep those coming...) here's a lovely Black-tailed Skimmer. Abdomen the colour of a summer sky seen through hazy upper level cloud #BlueBugs #BlueMonday 🟦🌤️

Welcome, what better possible start than an insect collection tour!

AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program.... Hosted by UCL and the University of Reading, in partnership with NHM, ZSL, Kew Gardens, and UKCEH. More details at ai-intervene.net #biodiversity #AI #conservation

✅ Picture of Rudolph on their wing ✅ DISCOsubmarginal cell ✅ Lay eggs in living bodies of their hosts Ichneumon wasps are ready for the festive party season!

The Cole museum, Univeristy of Reading, has the best models! Of course Eurypterids are amazing 🤓

Off to taech on the @unirdgento.bsky.social course today (although train has been cancelled..) Got a bag full of flies and books, and stocked up on my stories!

Had a great time with @unirdgento.bsky.social discussing the value of museum collections and showing off some very special specimens from the ~4,000,000 specimens we are custodians for. #SmallOrders

A treat to be at NHM London with our MSc group today. First, Coleoptera.

Enjoying a spot of beatle collecting on our first evening in Liverpool....excited for #Ento24 today @royentsoc.bsky.social!