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What a joy to be speaking on the diversity of beetles in London’s Royal Parks at the Friends of Regents Park and Primrose Hill meeting @theroyalparks such appreciation for London’s green spaces and urban forests 🌳

Saturday 21st February is the annual Coleopterists Day! We hope to see many of our beetle supporters at the World Museum Liverpool on the day 🪲 🙌🏻

The programme for 2026 Coleopterists Day is here...

Beetles have survived ice ages and mass extinctions — but can they survive today’s global change? 🪲

Join our FREE entoLIVE webinar on 17 Feb with Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social on mapping the beetle tree of life and what it tells us about biodiversity’s future. 🧪

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1815106274...

Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence groups warn The degradation of ecosystems around the world threatens UK food security, a long-awaited report says.

BBC News - Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence groups warn - BBC News
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Our new 416pp #FliesofBritainandIreland covering over 1300 species & with over 1500 photos is now being printed - due mid Feb 2026. You can still pre-order until 31 Jan bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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!Please Read! Coleopterists Day is happening on Saturday 21st February, not the 22nd as previously circulated. Accept our apologies for this confusion, we hope to see you there for discussions, presentations and more...🪲🪲🪲

SAVE THE DATE! Saturday 21st February 2026 is Coleopterists Day at Liverpool Museum. A fun and informative programme of talks with access to the entomology collections in the afternoon. We look forward to seeing you there. Details on how to attend following soon 🪲
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Merry Christmas! 🎄 And a festive beetle bauble🪲 I didn’t collect this beetle in Costa Rica this year, it collected me, attempting to nest in my hair! A very special experience. This is scarab chafer in the aptly named genus Euphoria, as it’s true I was euphoric or have met it.

Beetles are astonishingly diverse: 400,000 species and counting. A major new project aims to build the most comprehensive beetle phylogeny ever, mapping 100,000 species to reveal their evolutionary history.

Learn more w/ Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social on 17 Feb.

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Did you know 1 in 4 animal species is a beetle? 🪲 With 400k+ species, beetles are among Earth’s most diverse lineages.
Learn about the huge project mapping their tree of life in a
FREE talk with Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social in Feb 2026.

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Yes, yes you can find beetles in the winter in the UK! Communing with the Black Snail beetle up a very wet and windy Fell in the Lakes. Phosphuga atrata on Great Mell Fell. 🪲

Over 400,000 beetle species exist, but how are they related? 🐞
Join Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social ( @nhm-london.bsky.social ) on 15 Feb 2026 for a FREE webinar exploring efforts to map the global Beetle Tree of Life & uncover biodiversity patterns.

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Orthoptera Special Interest Group (SIG) 2025 Join us at The Natural History Museum, London for the Royal Entomological Society’s annual Orthoptera meeting about grasshopper and cricket research, conservation, recording and more. Our Orthoptera Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a forum for the discussion of all aspects of research and outreach involving Orthoptera, including behaviour, physiology, acoustics, ecology and taxonomy. The programme includes around ten short talks, with posters and livestock presented during refreshment breaks. The meeting is followed by an optional supper and drinks in the NHM common room. We welcome contributions from all enthusiasts, students, academics, and other professionals.

Don’t miss the #OrthopteraSIG 2025 on 5 Nov at @nhm-london.bsky.social 🦗

Enjoy talks, posters & live specimen displays, and a buffet dinner option at our friendly informal forum to share research across behaviour, acoustics, taxonomy, ecology & more.

Submit your abstract and register now 🔽

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When your Thai bestie @pun158 over on X, combines two of your favourite things: entomology themed stationary and beetle science! New species of stag beetle to Thailand: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come along to the @amentsoc.bsky.social fair on Saturday for all your insect needs! 🪲 🐝 🦋 🦗 🐝 🪰 🐞

Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking

Important

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A close-up of a bumblebee feeding on a sunflower. Text reads: Insect crisis declared. The UK’s leading insect conservation charities launch the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis.

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

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#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...

May Berenbaum presenting the Wigglesworth Memorial Lecture in Glasgow for Ento25

Vojtěch Novotný presenting a talk in Glasgow for Ento25

Christiane Weirauch presenting a talk in Glasgow for Ento25

Nicole van Dam presenting a talk in Glasgow for Ento25

🌟 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

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A slide on "ethical review for insect research".

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...

Helen Roy delivering a presentation on Women in Entomology at Ento25.

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 🔽
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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 🌿🐑

Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Desertas Islands (Madeira archipelago, Portugal): description of a new subspecies and faunistic notes | Zootaxa

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

A cluster of red seven-spot ladybirds gathered on a blue tiled background.

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? 🐞

I think so. Not 100% as there’s photo is not high definition enough for me to see the characters / whether the head is elongate.

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