Kieran Anderson

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Most of the image is filled by a boom, Starfinder Second Edition Player Core, with another similarly coloured book partially visible on the left hand side, against a dark and blue background.

It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder

The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG

A freaky ass beetle with a long long black neck and a orange body with black spots

You need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.

Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected

New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)

doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

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I think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!

Have you recorded wildlife?

An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg

Two blueish dots, the UV lights of two moth traps, against a dark to black background, of the garden of Portsmouth Natural History Museum

Due to some technical issues, the plug broke, this is a bit delayed, but our first Light Trap at Portsmouth Natural History Musuem is away! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Moths

I’ve found the, very slightly, better conditions Europe, sadly tends to promote a much fiercer defence of the “meritocracy” in European based workers and incredible hostility to any suggestion that system is not near perfect, unlike Americans who are a lot more prepared to admit the issues.

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

So I'm doing a thing, and GM'ing my first game of @paizo.com's Pathfinder Society at the excellent Dice in Portsmouth. And even better, it involves Wasps! What else could you possibly want! Come play Pathfinder with us, newbies very welcome. #Pathfinder #Wasps warhorn.net/events/pompe...

The green leaves of a cultivated rose are against a white painted wall. There are three sawfly larvae on a nearly completely eaten leaf in the centre of the image, with another singular larvae on a stem on the lower right hand side. The sawfly larvae have a light green base colour speckled with yellow, white and black dots with an orange head capsule.

The green leaves of a cultivated rose are against a white painted wall. There is a bright red rose petal out of focus in the backgrounds. A single sawfly larvae is eating a leaf in the centre of the image. The sawfly larvae have a light green base colour speckled with yellow, white and black dots with an orange head capsule.

Wooop! Finally, several years after planting, the Rose has lured in the absolutely awesome looking larvae of an Arge sp. sawfly. Will be collecting to rear through and see if we can get any Ctenopelmatinae wasps out of them! #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera

A powerpoint slide from a guide to Norfolk Pseudoscorpions. This one is for Chthonius ischnocheles and has two photographs of live individuals at the top and then text below describing features that identify the species. There is also a map of Norfolk showing records of the species as coloured 2 km squares.

A powerpoint slide from a guide to Norfolk Pseudoscorpions. This one is for Neobisium carcinoides and has two photographs of live individuals at the top and then text below describing features that identify the species. There is also a map of Norfolk showing records of the species as coloured 2 km squares.

Still a bit of work to do but my Pseudoscorpion guide is coming along. Maps are just about done (these show pre (yellow) and post (red) 2000 records) but I will need to revisit museum specimens to re-photograph or make detailed drawings.

Applied Entomology @ Harper Adams University | LinkedIn Applied Entomology @ Harper Adams University | 288 followers on LinkedIn. Integrated Approaches to Pest Management by Protecting Crops and Preserving Ecosystems. | The Applied Entomology Group @ Harpe...

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Please come give us a follow there for videos and updates on our research activities related to applied entomology, especially integrated pest and pollinator management!

A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

So this is a delightful little moment of disobedience……..

🌟 Exciting Discovery Alert! 🌟

Back in January we teased some big news…and here it is!

🐌 Semilimax pyrenaicus (Pyrenean Semi-slug) has been recorded in Britain for the first time, found at a colliery spoil site in Cwmaman, S. Wales.

Read more: doi.org/10.61733/jco...

#SemiSlug #WildlifeDiscovery

Congrats!

A transparent glass tube is resting among bare soil and green plants. At the left side the tube is capped with a whiteish bung. In the middle is a largely black beetle, with four orange marks across its elytra.

While @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field meeting is in theory to collect flies, it’s proved to be a great trip for @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social! Along with Phosphuga atrata and Oiceoptoma thoracicum managed to find our first, hopefully, Nicrophorus vespilloides #entomology #diptera #coleoptera

On the left, is a statute of a man (The Duke of Wellington) on horse back, with a cone on traffic cone on its head. On the right is the Musuem of Modern art, a building with columns in front of it. There is a white rectangular container in the foreground.

The journey to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting continues, a beautiful, if wet morning in Glasgow before heading to Inverness and then onwards to Tomich!

A train, which is mainly blue with a yellow front and red lights is waiting at a platform.

And we’re off! On the Caledonia sleeper heading off to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting! To the, hopefully for a least sometimes, dryish highlands!

Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency.

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It's National Biscuit Day, which means you're obliged to eat biscuits - and nothing but biscuits - for 24 hours.

Anyone caught breaking the rules will be immediately arrested by a police officer dressed as a giant Hobnob.

#NationalBiscuitDay

Strange stubby dark red and black hunchbacked wasp with black wings, at rest on a dead flower stalk of some kind

Leucospis chalcid wasp, a parasitoid of the egg cases of another favorite of mine, resin bees. Weird chonky thing. 🖤

Vote card for wings, heads with intact antenna and genital capsules. Pill capsules for other things.

A green leaf is against a black background. A light green with two yellow dorsal stripes sawfly larvae is perched on the leaf edge eating the leaf.

Todays find, several sawfly larvae, I think possibility of Ash Sawfly, Tomostethus nigritus, on Narrow Leaved Ash, Tomostethus nigritus, feeding merrily along despite the pouring rain. #Entomology #Hymenoptera #Sawflies

Thats awesome of you, thank you.

Thats awesome, thanks so much! Do you know if there's any chance of getting the emerged adult to species? I didn't manage to uncover a general key or one covering Britain / Western Europe on an initial look around.

A patch of aprox. 50 pearlescent globular eggs laid on a green veined rose leave against a black background

Another highlight from today, these beautiful little pearl like eggs, no idea what might emerge, but possible Lepidopteran or Hemipteran, can just wait and see what hatches! #Entomolgy #Lepidoptera #Hemiptera

In the center is a pale white semi transparent remains of a aphid, petrified above a white silken cocoon, possibly of a parasitic wasp. Above is a brownish living aphid. The background is a green veined leaf, with some black artifacts of the microscope eye piece in the corners.

A detailed view of a pale white semi transparent remains of a aphid with some dark patches on the legs, petrified above a white silken cocoon, possibly of a parasitic wasp. against a background of a green veined leaf, with some black artifacts of the microscope eye piece in the corners.

Gruesome, fascinating and charming all at once. No idea what these might be, can the cocoon suggest anything @gavinbroad.bsky.social @jasboparai.bsky.social? Found several of these possible wasp cocoons wearing their aphid victims as hats today on roses. #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera