Luc Leblanc shares some background on the Barr Museum’s forestry insect collection, drawn largely from Malcolm Furniss’s bark beetles

Original Riker mounts by inventor Clarence Riker held at @denvermuseumns.bsky.social , presented by Genevieve Anderegg! 😍 The cabinets are just as intricate as the insects held within!Though lacking in collection data, lots of educational & natural history research value once imaged! #ECN2025

We're at #ECN2025 in Portland, Oregon! We're passionate about entomological collections, which is why we published some of last year's ECN in a special topical collection: nhcm.pensoft.net/topical_coll... Check out the @pensoft.net stand for our latest news!

We have a remote talk by Devanshu Gupta if the Zoological Survey of India, summarizing the lucanid fauna of India via the ZSI’s collection.

Jess Awad from Naturalis (massive Dutch biodiversity institute, formerly known as RMNH)— massive collection in a gorgeous new building (2019)

Gen Anderegg tells us about Clarence Riker, inventor of the Riker mount (same family as Rikers Island too)

Another harrowing tale, this time from Alfred Johnson and Ava Rios on the trials of biodiversity collections in Guam

Bill Clark tells us about the exquisite personal lep collection assembled by Gary Gier, a retired HS teacher in Idaho

Istvan Miko introduces us to the phenotypically consistent and shockingly productive hymenopterist Lubomir Masner and his dedication to (among other things) tiny wasps

The jump scares continue with Tommy Mcelrath on INHS’s successful SPNHC grant to curate and digitize Californian insects, including rehousing some absolutely disastrous wet material

ECN day 2 starting off strong with President-Elect Pete and the most upsetting fly I’ve ever seen

It's the most wonderful time of the year! #ECN2025

How the creation of a school insect collection project, led to the discovery of Amblycheila cylindriformis in Montana… bioone.org/journals/the... Marian Kirst reminds us of the value of being a “filthy generalist” and the importance of building strong local connections. #ECN2025

Jessica Wadleigh of FMNH with the finest, tiniest beetles

Istvan Miko takes us on a trip to the UNH insect collection, which punches above its weight in part thanks to the superhuman collecting efforts of Don Chandler

Chris Marshall on the history and metamorphosis of OSAC, including a beautiful combination of Delta cabinets and compactors (and homegrown dahlias)

Luciane Marinoni, prez of the Brazilian Zoological Society, telling us about the 300+ entomological collections in Brazil

Finally, Shelby Grice of the MEM introduces us to Gladys Hoke Lobdell (b. 1895), the first female prof at Mississippi State (in 1918!) and her spectacular collection of scale insects

Let’s get TINY: Natalie Dale-Skey on the NHM’s mymarid slide collection. LOTS of careful data editing. Look at that slide holder for bulk scanning!

Ligia Benavides Silva of MCZ tells us about genomics and “next-gen morphology” for arachnids, in the context of a CSBR grant for cryopreservation of tissues from type specimens

Final session of the morning starts with Gen Anderegg on intake of a huge donation full of macroleps like morphos and birdwings… now which ones were collected legally?

Tatiana Sepulveda of FMNH shows us how her museum uses the Gigamacro system with their wonderful, ~50% beetle collection

Next year we will have speed trials for assembling Chris Wirth’s portable focus stacking camera system

(Here’s a much cleaner link to Andrew and Chris’s DIY macro tools!)

Andrew Johnston and Chris Wirth with a double feature on highly affordable DIY focus-stacking systems! QR code here for further info…

Made it to #ECN2025 in Portland. Always a fantastic conference.

Sorting some staphylinids while tuning in to #ECN2025

It’s time for #ECN2025 - my favourite annual meeting, entirely focused on #insect collections! This year we’re in Portland, Oregon. 🪲 Follow @entcollnet.bsky.social to keep up with the hot topics of the weekend. (🤫 Yes, I’m a board member but no I am not biased!)

And our final talk in the AI symposium, Chris Johnson of AMNH talks about her experience in automated imaging and data capture with the GIGAMACRO

Jack Whisenant on pattern recognition approaches for capturing handwritten data from labels and logbooks

Now it’s Ann Dunn with a report on how agentic AI chatbots perform in consolidating database queries, starting with a very thorough dataset of, surprise, clam shrimp

Next up, Deb Paul talks about testing AI solutions for quickly extracting host associations and other data to grow the Universal Chalcidoidea Database.

Our first AI talk comes from Nick Dowdy, discussing the performance of his workflow for capturing label data from audio transcripts!

Kicking off our “AI for taxonomists” symposium at this year’s ECN meeting! Naturalis is one of the institutions doing exciting work in this area…

Huge welcome to all you lovely folks joining us today, both in-person and online! Great to have so many first-timers! Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social! #ECN2025

At ECN we promote a welcoming environment that is safe, collaborative, supportive, and productive for all participants. Before our meeting kicks-off, please take a moment to read our Code of Conduct: ecnweb.net/about/code-o... #ECN2025

📢 Ento job klaxon! Texas A&M University are advertising not one but TWO faculty positions in #Arthropod #Systematics and #Biodiversity 🪲 Full details and to apply: ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/175600

#EntSoc25 Tuesday Nov 11 at 8am in Portland Ballroom 256 Meet our Curator Panelists Jhon Neita 🇨🇴, Patricia Estrada 🇨🇱, Adilson Pinedo Escatel 🇲🇽, Javier Muzon 🇦🇷,Mauricio Herrera Madrid 🇪🇨, Gyanpriya Maharaj 🇬🇾, Kelli Ramos 🇧🇷

Our rad new exhibits opens to the public Nov. 8th. I will be one of the rotating Tame Scientists in the “open lab” display, probably prepping and IDing tiny beetles from @mosquitolab.bsky.social . Come see us! carnegiemnh.org/explore/stor...

We are excited to be heading to the Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting (8-9 Nov) and Entomology 2025 (9-12 Nov) in Portland, Oregon! Learn all about @pensoft.net's involvement here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1006 @entcollnet.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social

📍✨Don't forget to sign up for THE PIN DOWN - Insect Mounting Challenge at the annual @entsocamerica meeting in Portland📍✨ #EntSoc25 On Nov. 11 at 3:00PM in the OCC Exhibit hall, you will have 30 minutes to mount 10 arthropods. Winners determined based on the mounting method and aesthetics.

It's that time of year again! 🐞🐝🪲🦋 Come visit our booth and say hi! We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the 2025 @entsocamerica.bsky.social and @entcollnet.bsky.social meetings in Portland! #entsoc25 #ecn2025 #insects #entomology #entomologist #entomologycollection #insectcollections

Just ONE WEEK until #ECN2025! 🪲 Head to the website to check out the full program: ecnweb.net/welcome/meet... This year’s program cover features a beautiful Rain beetle (Pleocoma sp.). Photograph courtesy of @ageofarthropods.bsky.social & the Purdue Entomological Research Collection.

That’s @entcollnet.bsky.social or perhaps even @coleopsoc.bsky.social to a tee

Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see

Rain beetles are SO FLUFFY! Now that we have your attention, don’t forget that Early-bird registration for #ECN2025 ends today. Don’t miss out! ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-ecn-p... 📷 Pleocoma oregonensis, from Cornell University Insect Collection.

Today’s winning data label goes to this flea I’ve no idea who collected it but I’d love to met them, sounds like they are my sort of person 🤓 #collections @nhm-london.bsky.social #fleas #databasing

📢 Reminder! If you submitted a presentation title for #ECN2025, remember to submit your abstract by Friday 26th September! Abstracts can be emailed to us at: [email protected]

the SIZE of her

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529