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We’ve been sharing our passion for insects since 1935. As a UK charity, we’re here to make entomology exciting and accessible to all - especially amateur enthusiasts and young nature lovers. Our Bug Club helps kids discover the amazing world of minibeasts.
Schedule of talks at Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair featuring insect close-up photos and detailed event timings.
Sticky Feet: How Insects Inspire Technology 🐜
Join us & @amentsoc.bsky.social for the Young #VerrallLecture, where Prof. Stanislav Gorb will explore how insects’ adhesive abilities inspire innovation & design.
📍 Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair
🎟️ Free
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#BritishScienceWeek
It’s the @amentsoc.bsky.social annual fair & I’m here with the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Lots of great fly talk & some great exhibits including these from some of the younger members of the AmEntSoc - aren’t they great?
#entomology
🦋 Our AGM & Members' Day was buzzing! We teamed up with @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camzoology.bsky.social for Zoology Live: Insectopia - talks, tours & insects galore 🐛🦗
🎥 Missed it? Watch the talks: bit.ly/AGM2025Talks
📸 Highlights: bit.ly/InsectopiaRecap
🔍 What’s next: www.amentsoc.org/events🕷️
Most weevils have a snout, elbowed antennae & a heart-shaped foot—making them easy to recognise (with a few exceptions). 🪲
Learn more for free with @markgurn.bsky.social:
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#Weevils 🧪
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Join my colleagues & I on Mon 28 July from 11am for a #bioblitz to celebrate the first year of the reopening of the @nhm-london.bsky.social Gardens! I'll be rummaging in the leaves for minibeasts! www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...
24.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bdelloid rotifers have some of the strangest biology of all organisms on Earth.
Curious to find out more? Join Dr Chris Wilson from @ox.ac.uk for a FREE entoLIVE webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1369681186...
#Genetics #DNA 🌍 🧪
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🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
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FREE entoLIVE webinar | Falling through the Cracks: iNaturalist Invertebrate Records in the UK | @josscarr.bsky.social | 16th Sept 2025
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1461082720...
#iNaturalist #Biodiversity 🧪 🌍
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Would you like to actively contribute to the governance and strategic direction of the Society?
We are seeking active and dynamic Members or Fellows to support the Royal Entomological Society in our committees.
Applications open - Deadline: 16 July 🔽
www.royensoc.co.uk/news/trustee...
The @royentsoc.bsky.social book #Giveaway closes tomorrow!
To celebrate #InsectWeek and the release of our new book, 'How to be a Ladybird' with DK Books, we’re offering one winner their own copy 🐞
✨ Enter on Instagram before the competition closes on 7 July 🔽
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On the home run now for our #FliesofBritainandIreland book bit.ly/4dqQI8Z – Steven Falkhas now completed the text for the Anthomyiidae & we've started laying out the intro pages
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@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
21.06.2025 14:10 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This 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...
19.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Great to see wasps getting some positivity!
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Learn about hawkers, emperors, clubtails, goldenrings, emeralds, chasers, skimmers, whitefaces and darters in our Dragonflies of the UK online course courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/drag... @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @buzzclub.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social
07.06.2025 14:25 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Just landed: "Riverfly Handbook" by Craig Macadam, a must-have for anyone who loves dipping into streams and discovering the tiny wonders within. Mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies... it’s a whole world down there. Dive in!
#Entomology #FreshwaterLife #NewArrival @amentsoc.bsky.social
POSTPONED! Unfortunately our Young Entomologists' Day, originally for Sat 26 April has been postponed. A new date will be released as soon as we know it. Apologies for any inconvenience.
22.04.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unable to visit #SISF2025 for Dr. Ben Clunie's Young Verrall Lecture with us & @royentsoc.bsky.social? No worries! It's now available on YouTube 🎉 Watch here: youtu.be/xGtsES0xmWI?... Discover the fascinating relationships between plants and insects in this talk for ages 7-11!
09.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow! Join us at the Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair 🐞🕷️Sat 1st March, 10:30–4pm, Staffordshire University. Grab some freebies, hear the Young Verrall Lecture with Dr Ben Clunie, organised by us & @royentsoc.bsky.social, and cuddle a cockroach! #Entomology #BugLove #ScienceFair
28.02.2025 16:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Yellow roundel with stylised black butterfly in centre with initials aes 90 Years. Text around the outside reads The Amateur Entomologists' Society 1935 - 2025.
We’ve landed on Bluesky - just in time for our 90th anniversary! 🎉🦋 The Amateur Entomologists’ Society has shared its passion for insects since 1935, from butterflies to beetles - and even fabulous flies! 🦟 Follow us for news on our events, books, journals & more. 🐞🦗 #amentsoc #Entomology #BugClub
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