the humiliation of going on a hot date then finding out she wasn't even in the same PHYLUM (then someone writes a whole paper about it, with photos of your wiener)

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: https://snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job

Don't miss our next meeting (Feb. 25, 7 pm EST)! Feat. guest lecture by Srđan Tunić, an art historian and freelance curator. He is a 3rd year PhD candidate in art history at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. 📷 by Catharine Watters

🪲 The Lacordaire Prize represents the attainment of the highest achievement for PhD dissertation research based on the biology and evolution of beetles. Cash prize of $1,000 and a plaque. www.coleopsoc.org/society-info... #awards #grants #LacordairePrize #evolution #coleoptera

For nature fans in eastern Pennsylvania, there's a fun volunteering opportunity in North Wales on February 20th to remove invasive mantid oothecae. And you get to learn how to ID them, of course. #InvasiveSpecies #pennsylvania wp.natlands.org/event/mantis...

Don't miss our first meeting of 2026, coming up on Wednesday, February 25th, at 7:00 pm EST. Join us for a guest lecture by Srđan Tunić, PhD Candidate (Art History, Temple University), on "20th century scientific illustration, women in STEM, and museum archives: The work of Mary Foley Benson."

With 12,260 overwintering butterflies, 2025 is the 3rd lowest Western Monarch Count on record. Western monarchs are in serious trouble & desperately need our help. The good news is that there are clear steps we can all take to make a difference. Learn more & get started 🦋 xerces.org/press/wester...

Next week, Jan 8 at 12:00 pm EST, hear @bugeric.bsky.social, author of Bugwatching, discuss the fun and importance of observing our planet's most abundant, yet most overlooked, animals in this virtual event with Smithsonian Associates! Come learn to appreciate the small things: buff.ly/yWNSQF0

Convergent evolution invertebrate tailfeathers (Planthopper nymph 🤍)

Destiny Mann is a PhD student in Michael Crossley’s Agricultural Entomology Lab at UD. She is passionate about advocating for the insects & highlighting how they offer solutions to our most pressing problems. Her research focuses on waste upcycling by reintroducing decomposers into our food system.

Join us tomorrow (December 3, 7 pm EST) for our last meeting of the year & a guest lecture on "Demonstrating a Circular Food Economy at the University of Delaware" by Destiny Mann, PhD Student (Dept of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, U. Delaware). This HYBRID meeting is free & open to the public!

Very pleased to have had a small part in this new paper showing that the greater chestnut weevil is not, as feared, extinct.

Spotlight on #S2O pilot partner Entomological News @americanentosoc.bsky.social, publishing #research taxonomic revisions, phylogenetics, biogeography and faunistics, and descriptive morphology of #insects and terrestrial #arthropods. Discover more: bio-one.co/anth Learn about S2O: bio-one.co/s2o

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🍂 The year's been rough, but there were many things to be thankful for. Family, friends, BUGS! Meet Titan the Eastern Hercules beetle. Someone was kind enough to send him for me to keep & take much needed pics. Then I handed him off to the students who are now caring for him ☺️

Its that time of year again: a male Snow Flea, one of 3 seen yesterday in woodland on the Shrops/Herefords border. These 4mm relatives of Scorpionflies live in moss (esp. Polytrichum & relatives) & are winter active as adults. Not fleas of course but they can jump a bit.

🎃🕷️Tick or treat? Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections. Not even the fish are safe! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...

The Annual Meeting of the Newark Entomological Society will be held Oct 25, 9:30am, at the Headlee Laboratories Building, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Speaker: Dr. Jason Dombroskie, Cornell University Department of Entomology. (Photo courtesy of Jason Dombroskie!)

Today's the day! Hope to see you at our September webinar. Send us a DM to get the Zoom connecting info.

Looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday!

The 2025 Tick Academy (a virtual conference open to anyone interested in ticks and tick-borne disease prevention) will take place Oct. 15th & 16th, 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. CT, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Tom Mather of the University of Rhode Island. Sign up today! ipminstitute.org/services/tic...

Sending a belated note of appreciation for our August guest speaker, Adam Scherr (researcher at Penn State University), who taught us about "Phytohormones in the fall armyworm: A story of sequestration and symbionts." Missed it? No prob- members can view the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel.

September Webinar: We're excited to welcome Dr. Megan Wilkerson (Chief Scientist, Department of Energy and Environment) for a guest lecture on "Beyond the Lab and Into Their Lives: Building Your Science Communication Toolkit"! Join us on Zoom on 9/24 at 7 pm ET. Send us a DM to get the link!

Sometimes micro-moths like this Callima (likely) argenticinctella are absolutely stunning little animals. People often walk right past thinking they're just tiny moths, but under magnification you realize you've missed out on something truly beautiful. #entomology #bugsky #Invert 🌿

Just realized something. Dennis was as excited to get $1.5 million for a few hours of stealing embryos as Grant and Sattler were to get $150K for 3 years of field work. Science vs. Commerce. #JurassicPark

TONIGHT, 7 pm EDT: Join us for our webinar on "MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: A High-Throughput and Affordable Tool for the Surveillance of Vector-Borne Pathogens" feat. Dr. Maureen Laroche (@tattooed-bug.bsky.social)! Send us a DM to get the Zoom link. americanentomologicalsociety.org/maldi-tof-ma...

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County is hiring a Collections Manager in Entomology. $69,000/yr. Work with pinned + fluid specimens, and arthropod curation. #entomology #arachnology 🪲🪳 #sciencejobs

AES is proud to be one of the 40+ scientific societies that signed on to this letter to Congress in support of science. www.ucs.org/resources/sc...

Join us for our next webinar on Wed., May 28th (7 pm EDT), a guest lecture by Dr. Maureen Laroche on "MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: A High-Throughput and Affordable Tool for the Surveillance of Vector-Borne Pathogens." Dr. Laroche is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Discover #entomology research in BioOne Complete with our Top & Trending Research collection, featuring articles from @afs1893.bsky.social , Entomologica Americana, and @americanentosoc.bsky.social 📖 Free to read through July 31: bio-one.co/42jiHEc

Our April meeting was our best-attended hybrid meeting to date! Attendees enjoyed a fantastic lecture by Emma Jonas (University of Delaware). Those who attended in person also enjoyed snacking on refreshments, viewing Lepidoptera from the collection, & meeting the winner of the 2025 Calvert Award.

Join Xerces and help protect pollinators across Wisconsin! Job Title: Wisconsin Pollinator Conservation Specialist 🌎Location: Remote in Wisconsin (Madison regional area preferred) 💲Compensation: $62,857 per year 📅Apply by: May 8, 2025 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs

TOMORROW: Join us for "Wandering Lepidoptera: Insights into caterpillar perception and strategies for reanimating urban life." Emma Jonas will provide insight into moths' perilous journeys during their wandering and pupation stages & explain how we can help mend the urban biodiversity crisis.

📢 JOB KLAXON! The Yale Peabody Museum is hiring a permanent, full-time Museum Assistant in #Entomology 🦋 Full details & how to apply: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... #EntoJobs #InsectCollections

Given the recent devastation to US #entomology, this thread is a resource list for aspiring entomologists or those who’ve lost jobs. I invite others to add links they think might help. I won’t pretend this is easy, but there’s no better time to start. Open below to read: 🧪 #AcademicSky #science

Don't forget to join us 7 pm, April 23 for "Wandering Lepidoptera: Insights into caterpillar perception and strategies for reanimating urban life." Have you ever imagined life from a caterpillar’s perspective? Emma Jonas will provide insight into the perilous journey moths undertake. 🐛🏢

Not a member of AES yet? We welcome all entomologists-- professional and hobbyist. Join us today at americanentomologicalsociety.org Memberships are only $35/year (regular) and $20/year (student). While we meet in Philadelphia, our meetings are hybrid so that you can join us from anywhere!

Join us for our next meeting: 7 pm EDT on April 23! We will host guest speaker Emma Jonas, for a talk titled "Wandering Lepidoptera: Insights into caterpillar perception and strategies for reanimating urban life." Emma recently completed her MS degree in Entomology at the University of Delaware.

Several AES officers attended the Delaware Valley Science Fair today to select winners of our Calvert Award for young entomologists. As always, it was hard to choose the winners but we got it done! Come to our April 23rd meeting to learn which projects prevailed.

Hope to see you tomorrow night! Send us a DM if you need the Zoom link.

This bee is here to announce that spring has sprung! Wilmington, Delaware 23 March 2025

Head's up! Our March meeting is coming up next week. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 26th, 7 pm EST. As usual, this will be a hybrid meeting; you may attend in-person (snacks provided!) at the Butterfly Foyer of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia or via Zoom. (1/3)

If you're not familiar with the WRBU it was formed by the US Army back in the 1960s to catalog and study mosquitoes from around the world but focused on locations like SE Asia with active theaters. Since then they've published hundreds of papers and amassed a collection of over 1 million mosquitoes.

This talented #entomologist, @ucdavis.bsky.social alum was fired from her USAID job as a Malaria Outbreak Emergency Advisor. ucanr.edu/blogs/blogco... “I built my career..believing that science & data could help save lives. That belief led me to #USAID and the President's Malaria Initiative...."

"Colorado research biologist Joe Cardiello ... was working on a groundbreaking new way of using CRISPR technology to detect Lyme disease sooner."

The recent federal firings will leave the US ill-prepared to fight future disease and pest outbreaks, endangering health, crops, and American quality of life. Working as a federal scientist IS serving your country. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/s...

THIS WEDNESDAY, 7 PM EST: Join us in Philly at the Academy of Natural Sciences or on Zoom for our first meeting of 2025! Kate Goodrich will teach us about "Flies, flowers, & false advertising– Floral mimicry of decomposing substrates." We will also hold elections for 2025-2027 officers of the AES.

Are you an Entomology Society of America member? Have you or a fellow entomologist been affected by recent federal actions? ESA is collecting stories on how these changes impact members and research. Share your story: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7a1ed... #Entomology #science🧪

Come work with me! Public Health Entomologist (assistant/associate level) ento.psu.edu/news/open-po...

Join us Feb. 26 at 7 pm EST in Philly or on Zoom for our first meeting of 2025! Kate Goodrich (Distinguished University Professor of Biology at Widener University & expert on pollinator ecology) will teach us about "Flies, flowers, & false advertising – Floral mimicry of decomposing substrates."