Paperback publication day 🥳! #MeetingsWithMoths 🐛🦋🔎🌳🌼

Pollinating insects play a vital role in the environment but species have declined since 1980.

Data collected for UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme help to detect changes in pollinator populations 🪰🐝🪲

Data from nature, for nature 💚 #DataNature

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Free webinar with Matthew Hayes at Cambridge University discussing how historical specimens and modern-day research allow wildlife of the past to inform conservation of the future BENHS Royal Entomological Society The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants Insect Ecology Group Buglife

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The 23rd of May will be the first Taxonomy Recognition Day by #TETTRIsEU !

But what is that❓ Read here 👇
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#23may #NameItToSaveIt #taxonomy #TaxonomyRecognitionDay

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

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Huge amounts of plastic from artificial grass end up in the sea

Fibres from artificial grass make up 15 per cent of plastic pieces found in samples of seawater near Barcelona
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Join the Scottish #OilBeetleHunt in 2024!

🔎Scottish records of #OilBeetles on iRecord more than doubled last year thanks to the combined effort of the Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt & surveying by the Species on the Edge team.
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Entomology hive mind: What is your favorite insect-related movie? (full disclosure--we're looking for a fun evening activity at the Excellence in Insect Science Symposium). I'll start: James and the Giant Peach and The Fly are my two, very different faves. GO!

The latest results from the annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS Live Data) show that 2023 was a mixed picture for butterflies 🦋

Half the 58 species had a better than average year while the other half were below average at monitored sites. (1/6)

📷: Pete Withers

Report these things to the ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) More often than not the ASA put a stop to it. Unfortunately as evidence of its impacts grows, companies are resorting to Greenwash

The Guardian today launches the (British) Invertebrate of the Year competition. A lovely way to highlight the importance and wonder of the vast majority of life on Earth. Everyone can vote and nominate their own too Buglife
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Join Wil J. Heeney 🤙🏳️‍🌈🪲🪰🕷🦇 for an #entoLEARN webinar exploring some of the larger and distinctive longhorn #beetles of the UK. Longhorn RS Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland BENHS AES - amentsoc.org #cerambycidae #coleoptera #entomology eventbrite.co.uk/e/835753109047

I've posted a first draft of a key to the British families of beetles here: sites.google.com/view/mikes-ins…

Morning and Happy Easter everyone. Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we share your photos/videos of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here are two Puffins 'billing' on the Isle of May, which is an act of pair bonding #SuperSeabirdSunday

This week we investigated whether a Facebook post from Easigrass made misleading claims about recyclability, and misleadingly implied that the artificial grass product was eco-friendly. Read our decision here: asa.org.uk/rulings/easigr…

Do you enjoy wacky and weird tales from the natural world?

Our curator of entomology @ashwhiffin appears on Episode 2 of Megan McCubbin and James Stevens's new podcast.

🐸 Available now on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify.

Calling all councils 📢

🌱This #NoMowMay we want to help you celebrate your local natural heritage and its role as a stepping stone to a year-long approach to managing verges and green spaces for nature.

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Any educators in taxonomy here?

We're collecting data on university courses.

Please share with this involved.

#Taxonomy #EU #TETTRIsEU

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Did you know that there are some moths in the U.K. with entirely AQUATIC CATERPILLARS?! I didn’t, until last year when I was introduced to the Brown China-mark (Elophila nymphaeata).

What a moth. 🤯🐛

#MothMonday #MothsMatter

Meet Australia's most recently named and described longhorn beetle: Excastra albopilosa! I was lucky enough to discover this remarkable species while camping binnaburra in 2021. Have a read of the UQ News article for more detail and a link to the paper. #entomology #newspecies