Fun aft Oxford University Museum of Natural History w. Amo Spooner checking labelling + identification of #pangolins . Some potentially v interesting findings too - more in due course! Matt Shirley IUCN PangolinSG ICCS Wildlife Trade Jason Newton Oxford Biology University of Oxford Oxford Martin School

Love an enquiry that leads to #weevilwednesday fun times! Some incredible finds with James Hogan 🤩

Some cool finds in Tyneham Village, Dorset at the weekend. Definitely recommend a visit for the history as well as the insects 😄

It's Wallace symposium day in collaboration with Maison Française d’Oxford! Great talk by ZoëSimmons on our Wallace insect specimens, explaining the routes they came to us! 🐞🦋🐝🦟🦗

The Extinct & Endangered book is out today. A collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, the project raises awareness of insect decline and biodiversity loss.

#insectdecline #biodiversity loss #biodiversity #insects #extinction #climatechange #habitatloss

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Here's a before, during, and after of a spider from the education handling collection getting some much needed TLC 🕷😀

HUGE thank you to Elin Cunningham for bringing these incredible Achrioptera manga stick insects for us Oxford University Museum of Natural History to oooh and ahhh over 🤩

Nine years ago (according to the Post-it on the cabinet) I typed the labels for these historic Oxford University Museum of Natural History Elateridae, and this week I put them on the specimens! Clearly got distracted 😄 Think they look much better now though, so worth the wait!

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Ellie, our wonderful Visitor Services Manager, was greeted by some particularly special international visitors this morning and snapped this from our nestcam Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Fantastic talk by Ashleigh Whiffin sharing her love for carrion beetles. Top tip, wear gloves when digging around in corpses! NFBR Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Some of the specimens we’ll be using today to talk about biodiversity past,present and future in our art/science cyanotype workshop Oxford University Museum of Natural History including a baby mammoth milk molar!!!

Beautiful array of flowers and insects seen on a visit to Bolsover Castle today 😌

IPM checking our Oxford University Museum of Natural History historic coleoptera collections this afternoon led to finding these wonderful weevils! #weevilwednesday

Friday goodies gathered by the amazing Jackie Chapman-Gray Happy me, and definitely happy Oxford University Museum of Natural History stick insects and cockroaches!😊🪳🍎

The photographic parts of my day Oxford University Museum of Natural History Tour set up, membracids down the microscope, and live insects fed. The emails, label making and cataloguing didn't make the cut 😅

Great afternoon spent arranging some of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History Membracidae collection! Got to love an enquiry led collections sort out session 🙂

Our new temporary exhibition Biodiversity opens TODAY! This amazing exhibition features artwork by Kurt Jackson Artist paired with specimens from the collection and responses from University of Oxford researchers. We hope to see you soon!

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