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Leaf insects are masters of #Camouflage. They even rock from side-to-side to mimic the movement of a leaf being blown about in the wind. 🍃 It might be hard to spot these creatures out in the wild, so we're lucky to have drawings of them in our #SpecialCollections. #InsectWeek

🗓️For #DragonflyWeek, we're sharing William J. Lucas' (1858-1932) drawing of a southern hawker in our Entomology #SpecialCollections. A common dragonfly species in Europe, you might spot one of these #Insects in your local woodlands, especially if you're near a pond! 🏞️

Great to see NHM #SmallOrder specimens in taxonomic works! With thanks to Mustafa Unal and Andrei Gorochov for notes on Tettigoniidae and Eupholidoptera mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Xyleus laevipes from Brazil, to brighten up your Monday 🦗🍊

Stunning new gardens open Natural History Museum. Led by science and science through all the many details. Truly inspiring! Well done Science at the Natural History Museum NHM_UK Biodiversity

#insects #art

1/3 #speciesaday no. 345 is Roesel's Bush-cricket (pronounced Roo-sel but nearly everyone, including me, mispronounces it). Ubiquitous in much of England. One of my most frequently recorded species. Where ever tall grass (especially MG1) grows. Sounds like a tattoo gun.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: July 24, 2024 Cricket Ammopelmatus sp. Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae By Tom Astle (@tjalamont), California, USA #arthropodPOTW

A taxonomic study of Korean praying mantids using morphological and molecular characters: doi.org/10.3897/zookey… #DNAbarcoding #taxonomy #prayingmantis

Today I turn 30 - my gift? An Evolution paper (complete w/ a beautiful cover image). When I get back from my bday trip I'll do a little thread explaining our findings, but for now check out this pub about cricket wing polyphenism 🦗🦗🦗 academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

Fresh out of the oven! Psyllids from the UGS of Bogotá, Colombia! Here we describe two new species, which only goes to show how poorly explored those groups is. Here’s to psyllid taxonomy! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/117368/

29 grasshoppers counted on a single #NatureOverheard survey here! 🌟Join us in counting insects on your local roads, to understand how they cope in noisy environments & how we can make roads better for nature. Only 20 mins 🐝 nhm.ac.uk/take-part/moni…

Great example of how providing access to scientific visitors adds value to our historic collections, improving our taxonomic knowledge. Our visitor Haithim Tlili investigated our collection of West Asian #Orthoptera and contributed 64 species to: orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/824871/ov…

It’s #OpenAccessWeek! At the Natural History Museum we have an ‘open by default’ approach to data, and our collections have already been used in nearly 4,000 research publications. Science at the Natural History Museum

Significant contribution to our understanding of the diversity of the small crickets (families Trigonidiidae and Mogoplistidae) of New Zealand, featuring species from the NHM #SmallOrders collections europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/… 🦗

Monday weighing heavy on your mind? Try being Macropanesthia rhinoceros, the heaviest cockroach in the world! #MondayMotivation #SmallOrders

Cockroaches can be beautiful! Here's another example illustrated in the section on imported & migrant species in David Ragge's Grasshoppers Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles (1965)

I’m Beulah, senior curator of NHM Small Orders. I love the diversity of function and form. My research focuses on the evolution of ground beetles. I also look after other collections like crickets and grasshoppers.

The Odonata copulation wheel, but for one day only a dragony love heart from the Small Orders team 💚

What’s it like to be a curator? Giles Miller, our Principle Curator in Charge of Invertebrate and Plant Palaeobiology, shares his diary entries over the course of his week in our latest blog. nhm.ac.uk/our-science/bl… NHMPalaeobotany