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We are organizing a #WeevilCourse: When: July 24 – August 2, 2025 Where: Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona, USA Info: www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-cours... Applications are open: www.amnh.org/research/sou...

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A few years ago I helped design & install a museum display about Monarch butterflies. It highlights the incredible migration of the eastern populations - travelling approx. 3,000 miles from their breeding grounds in the north east of North America, to the forests of southwestern Mexico… #BugSky 🦋

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Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

My colleague Sue Taylor has arranged a Women Entomologists Networking Day, in association with @britentsoc.bsky.social, taking place in Buckinghamshire on 10 May - contact Sue to find out more.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Some footage and info on the amazing Whirligig Beetles from my "10 creatures to spot on Wetlands" video I released at the weekend - and YT shared with hardly anyone! lol You can watch the other 9 creatures here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfff... #Pondlife #inverts #BugSky #Beetles

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Feast! I treated myself buying the book 'Wildernis in eigen land'. Gorgeous illustrations of many ecosystems /habitats (like poop!) by Jeroen Helmer. What is also great is that you can download the plates for free 🤩 in several languages at @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social #nature #books #illustrations

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Unpopular opinion: you can’t call yourself an animal lover if you only like the cute fuzzy ones. Saying you love animals but hate bugs for example means you only love 5% of known animal species. It is estimated that 95% of living animals on Earth are invertebrates #entomology #entomemeology

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

submitted 23 days ago • 63 comments

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

submitted 25 days ago • 155 comments

Nature is not a blocker to growth. The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

The world feels overwhelmingly scary right now. So here’s a Puffin.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Publishing this week – Richard Lewington's brilliant new guide to British spiders. Pocket-sized, field-friendly and packing a powerful arachnid punch. Perfect for all lovers of Britain's wildlife. Order a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pocket-gu...

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PURPLE BEETLE WHAT!!!!! 🤯💜 This crazy-looking Fungus Beetle (Cypherotylus dromedarius) is one of the many INSANE bugs that are here at Manu Biological Station in Peru! 🪲🌳 Come visit to IMMERSE yourself in the BEST AMAZON BUGS!!! 😍🦋

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

🐝 UK insect researchers, we need your input 🦋 The RES is gathering insights on your experiences with #InsectEthics applications. Whether you engage in the process or not, your feedback matters! 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... #Entomology #ResearchSurvey

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Digging out a few photos for a talk this week, had me daydreaming of brighter days from last summer. Here’s a Small Skipper enjoying some knapweed at the collections centre, in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #NMCCbiodiversity #museums #butterflies 🦋

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Inspiring @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social online session on ‘Enhancing #Biodiversity in Museums’ this afternoon - with a case study by @ashwhiffin.bsky.social ranging from #mothtrapping to #NoMowMay. Some things we do at @thebaytrust.bsky.social but ideas for a few new initiatives too :-)

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome newcomers! Alt Text is a big deal here on Bluesky. It helps people with visual issues and in other situations as well. Here's a useful thread on how to do it, including some examples.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

submitted 29 days ago • 55 comments

Two blue mosquitoes (there are more!). Left, Toxorhynchites (a worldwide genus whose larvae are predators on other aquatic insects including mosquitoes) and right, Sabethes, a South America genus where adults have large patches of scales on their legs for sexual display. #BlueMonday #BlueBugs

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a leaf-footed bug nymph with a sparkly blue booty. Maybe this is a means of confusing predators? Juveniles and adults can produce a defensive scent so it could be warning coloration too. (Acanthocephala terminalis) Tennessee #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

Here is one last image from me on this #BlueMonday. It's a weevil in the subfamily Entiminae, commonly known as the broad-nosed weevils. The name, Eupholus amalulu, is rather lovely. I wonder if Bluey mcblueface was already taken? 🤔 #WeevilOvercome #BlueBugs

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For #BlueBugs Monday it has to be the lovely Clifden Nonpareil. I'm lucky this big, furry, flappy moth has taken up residence in nearby woods. Those wings! Memories of sharing these blue (&grey &black) beauties with good friends brings a smile to my face. 100% joy! 😊 💙 🦋 #MothsMatter #MothMonday

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A flash of blue on the woodland floor for #BlueMonday #BlueBugs the fabulous Blue Ground Beetle, Carabus intricatus Deliberately sharing a 'bad' photo because the right angle can be more important than sharpness! We'd love to see your snaps at irecord.org.uk and happy to help here with ID queries

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A bit of Faerie for #BlueMonday Tule Bluet Damselfly (Enallagma carunculatum). Found by rivers, lakes and open ponds in north and southwest US #BlueBugs #becurious

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

A pair of mating Common Blue damselflies (Enallagma cyathigerum) #BlueBugs #BlueMonday #Nature #Photography #Nikon

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

One more blue insect... my baby boy 😍 What? Have I gone completely crazy? Well yes, but that's not important right now. Giving birth to a botfly was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. Read about it here (maybe not after you had lunch): gilwizen.com/botfly/ #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning! Here is a fancy blue rove beetle to start your day. Rove beetles are a family of beetles distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers). Most are predators of other insects. (Plochionocerus sp.) Mindo, Ecuador #BlueMonday #BlueBugs

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

A selection of #BlueBugs for #BlueMonday

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Some awesome #bluebugs moth caterpillars for #BlueMonday 📷Lackey (Mark Searle), Drinker (Dan Lombard), Pale Eggar (me) & White Satin (Patrick Clement) #teammoth

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments