@colsocbi.bsky.social
A society promoting, researching and recording the 4,000+ beetle species on Britain and Ireland. 🪲 Events, field meetings and networking...🪲🪲 Website: https://www.colsoc.org/
Speakers, collection tours (YOU can meet the Lucanus cervus on the last image) and more to be revealed?🐞... See the programme for Coleopterists Day on Sat Feb 22! Scuttle over to Oxford Natural History museum @morethanadodo.bsky.social for some beetle fun! #science #nature #entomology #conservation
14.02.2025 18:45 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A beautiful Carabus granulatus I found yesterday in North Dorset. First time I've found this species 😀
#carabidae #coleoptera #macrophotography #macro #ukwildlife
#NewSpecies!
New weevil from #indonesia just snuck in:
Exophthalmida elytrodon
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/9A690710-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #ExophthalmidaElytrodon
#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #coleoptera #weevils
Amazing work, so pleased to support the @biologicalrecording.co.uk.
Want to learn more? Check out and share their fantastic webinars and help enrich the world with #InsectScience 🪲
Register for upcoming #EntoLIVE events:
biologicalrecording.co.uk/entolive/
#entomology #invertebrates #SciComms
A wonder of macro is spotting things that would be missed with the naked eye. This picture of two Cryptocephalus aureolus? beetles at Cerne Abbas revealed a stowaway. It's an Oil Beetle larva. Well worth looking at their fascinating life cycle!
#coleoptera @colsocbi.bsky.social #macrophotography
Neither a beetle of Britain or Ireland, still amazing (Dynastes tityus)
02.02.2025 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A female Hercules Beetle among the dried leaves. Her shell is a light green with spots of black. A rare sight in my garden.
A really cool Hercules beetle I found in the garden ❤️🌿🍄 #entomology #insects #beetle #curio #naturesky #nature #bug #goblincore #herculesbeetle #wildlifephotography
01.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1If you have an interest in natural history within the county of Norfolk then do check out the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society website norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/then and follow them on Bluesky 😉
02.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A flattened/circular, dark brown beetle, with three raised ridges on its elytra, sitting on orange sand
A flattened/circular, dark brown beetle, with three raised ridges on its elytra, burrowing into orange sand
A ventral view of a flattened/circular, dark brown beetle with legs held tightly against its body
It’s #TenebTuesday! Another “pancaked” #Adelostomini —Stips sp.—photographed at night near Gobabeb Namib Research Institute. The adult beetles spend the days buried in the sand, emerging at night to forage on the dunes. #Coleoptera #Tenebrionidae
15.01.2025 02:26 — 👍 187 🔁 41 💬 7 📌 2
My first of the year - 7 Spot Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata.
My first of the year - 7 Spot Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #Ladybirds
#macrophotography #macro #OMSystem #OM5 #HeliconFocus #FocusStacking
Roll up roll up, join us at @morethanadodo.bsky.social on February 22, 2025 from 10:00 ! We’re bringing together a mount-Rushmore level crossover of beetle experts, enthusiasts and curious minds for a day of engaging talks + tours and discussions!🐞 #insects, #entomology, #bugs,🌍
14.01.2025 12:50 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
We are the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland!🐞, Our aim is to further beetle research, standardise and promote recording, and to develop and encourage public awareness and conservation of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands.
Check us out: www.colsoc.org
