The collections at @nhm-london.bsky.social are full of glorious specimens esp the Flies. But they also come with lots of extra information Roger Crosskey wrote down his feelings 50 years ago about this species complex - his frustration evident @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

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🕸️ Histoire naturelle des fourmis, . Paris, De l'impr. de Crapelet, 1802.. [Source]

Pleased to share our latest contribution to knowledge on West Indian Staphylinidae in The Coleopterists Bulletin! The first modern revision of West Indian Belonuchus in 82 years — 7 new species, 2 synonymies, lectotypes, illustrated keys + maps. 🌴 🪲 Read more & find paper here: tinyurl.com/3f646nnu

Recent fieldwork in Sayap Substation, Sabah, Malaysia

My newest paper, we used traditional microscopy combined with micro-CT scanning to revise the Strumigeny mnemosyne group. Three new Strumigenys species are described from Asia as well as virtually repair a broken paratype specimen using micro-CT derived 3D models. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

New publication! Review of Tetramopria (Diapriidae) of E Palaearctic - mating behaviour and interactions with host ants. with Ryoji Kawai and Seonwoo Yoon. Free download: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Only today I learned about the shrine in Tokyo to insects killed for science.

More photos from South Korea fieldwork, lovely to be back in a temperate environment collecting ants

Sampling ants in South Korea this month

🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

A creature which would like to be perceived as a Crematogaster ant, complete with "thorax" spines (it longhorn beetle).

The Monks Wood Wilderness is now in its 64th year of natural colonisation, eg. natural woodland creation. In 1961 this was a 4 ha barley field next to a larger wood, left to see what happened. No management, no planting. The wood expanded by itself, with the help of birds dispersing seeds.

It's published! The largest research work I've ever undertaken: Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz 1/x

Going through accessions at QCAZ/Católica, and this crazy fly caught my eye! What the hell, fly-people?!

Our followers may be aware of the recent passing of Richard Fortey, a great palaeontologist and user of the Museum’s Library and Archives. A brilliant science communicator with a penchant for fungi and fungus gnats, his Dry Store Room No.1 was a classic. To us and many others, Richard was too.

Hey BlueSky 👋 Please excuse the lateness, but we have arrived! We’re here to promote the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the UK and help with any of your ID queries. Please join the #CarrionClub and help us spread the word! 💀 🪲

We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries. #ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science

Large-tailed Nightjar fast asleep in the carpark to Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre of all places

Three and a half weeks collecting ants in Borneo rainforests for my PhD is now complete ✅️