Last day in Gainesville at the FSCA. sorted 80+ drawers of mostly #neotropical #weevils. Thanks to Paul Skelley, Kyle, Gareth Powell, Oliver Keller Ph.D.. Great trip and I’ll be back!!! Nearctic is next year. @ColeopSoc Entomological Collections Network Museum of Nature

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I have a label for specimens collected by Charlie O’Brien in 1984 in Liberia, Honduras. I can’t find this in gazetteers or on maps. Anybody know this place and have coordinates? EntomologyTranslator Entomological Collections Network @ColeopSoc

You dung good, weevils. 💩 Thought to be behaviour exclusive to dung beetles, our scientists were delighted to find weevils rolling balls of poo in Undara Volcanic National Park in north Queensland. Roll on over to the blog to learn more: blog.csiro.au/dung-rolling-b…

Truth versus firehoses of falsehoods subulatepalpomere.com/2023/03/30/tru… via David R. Maddison

Great new paper by Hermes Escalona and colleagues at the Australian National Collection on the “dung weevil” Tentegia. Great photos and discussion of biology. Here is title page and some images. #speciesdiscovery #weevil @ColeopSoc Entomological Collections Network SysEB ESA

Check out Pseudopiazurus on which the phoretic mites are flying first class, each with their own designated place (notice the unsold seats = the empty punctures). Compare that with Zascelis , the budget option, where the mites just pile on. @ColeopSoc Museum of Nature

Most recent paper from Jake Lewis’s MSc. Museum of Nature @ColeopSoc cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In Cuba near Santiago. Here for three weeks collecting. Acute gasoline shortage curtailing activities. So far limited to near Santiago. L-R Juan Carlos, Yoandri, me, Andrew (plus photobomber) @ColeopSoc Museum of Nature

State wildlife agencies focus on 'hook and bullet' work. Some see a new path. stateline.org/2023/05/31/sta… via Stateline || bsky @stateline.org

Wild #bees and #wasps in #Canada’s disappearing #prairie #dune #habitats - A Canadian Museum of Nature press release. Museum of Nature Read the press release: ow.ly/33K350OTr6z #Entomology #Science #Insects #Ecology #InsectDecline #Ecosystems

RIP, Jerry Powell, 1933-2023, former director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley image of Dr. Powell identifying insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, during a Lepidopterists' Society meeting in February 2019. essig.berkeley.edu/people/powell/

This is an excellent recount of Geoff’s life and accomplishments. zoology.ubc.ca/entomology/abo…

Hey Air Canada when are you going to restart the direct flights to London, England out of Ottawa?

Getting ready to walk in the Ottawa Pride Parade with all the Canadian National Museums.

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Call for applications for the Beaty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Canadian Museum of Nature See nature.ca/en/our-science…