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Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨 This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1/5

#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...

🌟 Huge thanks to all the incredible plenary speakers of #Ento25! May Berenbaum, Vojtěch Novotný, Christiane Weirauch & Nicole van Dam - Your inspiring talks have been a true highlight of the conference 🐝🦋🐞 🎥 Catch up on these talks on our YouTube channel early next week @entsocamerica.bsky.social

I'm really pleased that @royentsoc.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on ethics in insect research later today at #Ento25. It's an area where the UK entomology community can and should lead the way. Can't make it? You can still access my slides here: drive.google.com/file/d/1rBzi...

Thank you to everyone that attended the #WomenInEntomology morning at #Ento25, what a fantastic turnout! Special thanks to @ukladybirds.bsky.social, @hayleyento.bsky.social, Anna Platoni and Gia Aradottir 🐞🪴🪰🦗 Read more about women in entomology 🔽 buff.ly/9OBCyNM WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Tropical rainforests in the SW Pacifics. Dr Novotný took us on an epic adventure featuring Terry Erwin! On the arms race between plants and insects in the tropics, and the army of people it takes at a local scale to provide the raw data for these interactional insights over decades. #Ento25

Meet Harpalus politus, a predominantly granivorous #carabid beetle threatened with extinction in #Germany (RL1) that is found exclusively on dry grasslands on limestone soils 🪲. Suitable habitat management and traditional grazing regimes are needed to help the species survive 🌿🐑

New subspecies for the Madeira islands. Very nice study on Carabidae diversity mapress.com/zt/article/v...

In the last few weeks, some parts of the UK have been blessed by a veritable swarm of ladybirds in gardens and on beaches - they even disrupted the cricket (game)! 🦗 But do you know the collective noun for a group of ladybirds? 🐞

Natural history museum San Jose, Costa Rica delivered ALL the insects. So great to see so much of Costa Rica’s diversity on display 🪲 🦋 #CostaRicaBiodiversity

Tree crickets build megaphones, called "baffles", by chewing holes in leaves to attract mates. For my PhD, I am studying the evolution of baffling. Lil bit of phylogenetics, lil bit of citizen science. Follow the link to my new project on @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/projects/baf...

A new #ShortComm in #RESInsectConsDiv reports that urbanization imposes declines in flying insect #biomass through the loss of large-bodied species doi.org/10.1111/icad.12859 #UrbanInsects #Biodiversity @katriendewolf.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

🌸 Wildflower walks in London! 🌸 Step outside and enjoy a peaceful stroll surrounded by beautiful blooms. Plan your visit via the link below ow.ly/bT8u50WnvmF

I was only trying to make friends but don’t mess with the Bess! Bess beetles (Passalidae) are of the few beetles that care for their young and live communally. This encounter in the mid-elevation tropical forest of Costa Rica.

Got a chance to photograph one of North America's most beautiful dung beetles, Copris arizonensis, at the Bugshot course in Portal last month. The various textures and shapes on this animal are amazing.

Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky

Some wet weather collecting at Pocosol Camp, Costa Rica. Seamlessly combining Katydid and beetle hunting 🌳 🪲 🦗

Carcinophora americana being a good mama. Brood care in Dermaptera is cool cool cool! 🖤 what a privilege to view this behaviour close up in Costa Rica 🌳

Night night from the night light

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa following ideal breeding conditions in late 2024 and early 2025, raising fears of major locust infestations moving south into the Sahel later this year.

Until we value the natural world above all else and put it at the heart of all we do there will be only one result - our demise. Why don't governments get it? It's capitalism stupid... www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

Good to see a diversity of insects at the light trap here in Costa Rica. Still, it’s obvious the decline in abundance. #insectdiversity

Having an intense, rewarding and a little bit damp time learning everything about the singing crickets from the best Orthopterogists in the world! 🌎 🦗

Hello from me and some beetle friends here in the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica.

New research in #RESEcolEnt Resilience that goes beyond prophylaxis: Benefits of faecal accumulation within #termite nests doi.org/10.1111/een.13464 #Termitidae #Cornitermes #Metarhizium @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

Obligatory curator photo at good old Terminal 3! 🪰 ✈️ 🦗

Happy 20th anniversary UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage! Proud to be an alumna and to share my story of how this programme shaped my career.

By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’

New #OpenAccess work now available in #RESSystematicEnt! Whole genome shotgun #phylogenomics resolve the #DivingBeetle tree of life doi.org/10.1111/syen.12685 #Dytiscidae #AquaticInsects @gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com

Checking some plans that were stood in trays of water, because of the weather, and found this fab Carabus granulatus. Nice unexpected find.

@amentsoc.bsky.social President address by Professor Ed Turner on the state of #insects globally, locally and the measures we can take to study and conserve them 🌳 🪲 @camzoology.bsky.social

Nail art beautifully provided by the fourteen-spot ladybird 💛

The day begins at #Insectopia on this sunny day. Hoping to meet lots of #insects 🐞 ☀️ 👋 from the team @amentsoc.bsky.social

This Sat 21 June 10am - 5pm is our 90th 😱 Anniversary AGM & members day held at the University of Cambridge as part of Zoology Live Insectopia! We have talks, minibeast hunts 🪲🐜🪰🐌 & behind the scenes tours. All welcome, details here: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/zoolo...

👇Fun insect facts with Museum Entomologist Jessica Ware!👇

Just over a week left to register to join us (@systassn.bsky.social and @linneansociety.bsky.social) for an in-person evening debate on the effects of misinformation on conservation efforts! When: Thurs, June 12 at 18:00 BST Where: Burlington House, London How: tinyurl.com/e8e4p5zt

Had a lovely day learning about palaeoecology of #WickenFen and past Mesolithic faunas, some still present today! Beetle elytra in abundance ☀️ 🪲

THE COLEOPTERISTS EVOLUTIONARY TOOLKIT: HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR BEETLE FROM A PRIMORDIAL CHEMISTRY

Less burning more conserving please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think about him everyday. And the Lebiinae 💙

I have a new radio show! Going live in 45 minutes (5pm GMT) on Source FM 96.1 Listen Here for bugs folklore and music! www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen

Me and @richardjbutler.bsky.social have a new review paper today in which we make the case for the importance of systematics, taxonomy and fieldwork in palaeo. You should read it: you'll like it royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

This beautiful Ground beetle is our six millionth digitised specimen! 😮 These specimens and their data are important to not only understand how population sizes have changed over time, but also to capture details which we may not have discovered, like this particular beetle eating adult moths! 🪲

Final talk by Jonathan Saha @durham-university No slides but massive impact. Go read this paper

Rohan Deb Roy - talking termites & entomo-politics The world of insects & politics may be thought to be mutually exclusive in terms of understanding colonisation but they are completely interwoven Plants give timber & paper A the materials of Empire. Termites upset that by eating them!

@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed

An excellent day of talks and chatter at OUMNH today for the @britentsoc.bsky.social members day! Wonderful representation for women in #entomology from @megabunus.bsky.social @beetlequeen.bsky.social & BENHS President Zoë Simmons 💁🏻‍♀️🪲🪰🕷️ #WomensHistoryMonth

Looking forward to talking about beetles at the #BENHS members’ day 🪲 🦖 on Saturday ☀️