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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In this unprecedented but entirely predicted by scientists, UK warming event, you could always just go to the beach ☀️ Spotted being cool hanging out in the Marram grass is the broad nosed weevil, Philopedon plagiatum 🪲 #InsectWeek @colsocbi.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s the perfect summer weather to be spotting members of the Oedemeridae, the false blister beetles. Beautiful metallic colours frolicking on meadow vegetation. This thick legged flower beetle is pumped! 🪲 💚 #InsectWeek coleoptera.org.uk/family/oedem...

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle (Pseudovadonia livida) is small and flower loving. An anomaly amongst most longhorns, its larvae developing in soil where Fairy-ring fungus grows, rather than dead wood. Adults love pollen and nectar from umbellifer flowers, as well as they love to mate 💚 🪲 #InsectWeek

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When small brown beetles be small brown beetles. Industrial scale genitalia extraction to determine the true differences and help to describe the species better. A heady mix of precise scientific method and inventive use of a vegetable steamer 😎 🧪 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

After a hard day’s beetling, beetle rescue on my way home. Ants were moving in but this beautiful lesser stag beetle was lucky to encounter this entomologist tonight. Saved from death by ant or human, delivered back into the undergrowth 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Good morning from the @nhm-london.bsky.social Spring has officially sprung as the ladybirds emerge here at our great institution and natural spaces 🐞 🍃

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Museum never sleeps! Demonstrating how to pin beetles and flies for entry into the NHM collections and spreading the good word on just how great and important insects are for the health of the Earth.

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

What a joy to be speaking on the diversity of beetles in London’s Royal Parks at the Friends of Regents Park and Primrose Hill meeting @theroyalparks such appreciation for London’s green spaces and urban forests 🌳

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Saturday 21st February is the annual Coleopterists Day! We hope to see many of our beetle supporters at the World Museum Liverpool on the day 🪲 🙌🏻

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas! 🎄 And a festive beetle bauble🪲 I didn’t collect this beetle in Costa Rica this year, it collected me, attempting to nest in my hair! A very special experience. This is scarab chafer in the aptly named genus Euphoria, as it’s true I was euphoric or have met it.

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Yes, yes you can find beetles in the winter in the UK! Communing with the Black Snail beetle up a very wet and windy Fell in the Lakes. Phosphuga atrata on Great Mell Fell. 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

When your Thai bestie @pun158 over on X, combines two of your favourite things: entomology themed stationary and beetle science! New species of stag beetle to Thailand: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Tropical rainforests in the SW Pacifics. Dr Novotný took us on an epic adventure featuring Terry Erwin! On the arms race between plants and insects in the tropics, and the army of people it takes at a local scale to provide the raw data for these interactional insights over decades. #Ento25

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Natural history museum San Jose, Costa Rica delivered ALL the insects. So great to see so much of Costa Rica’s diversity on display 🪲 🦋 #CostaRicaBiodiversity

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I was only trying to make friends but don’t mess with the Bess! Bess beetles (Passalidae) are of the few beetles that care for their young and live communally. This encounter in the mid-elevation tropical forest of Costa Rica.

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some wet weather collecting at Pocosol Camp, Costa Rica. Seamlessly combining Katydid and beetle hunting 🌳 🪲 🦗

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Carcinophora americana being a good mama. Brood care in Dermaptera is cool cool cool! 🖤 what a privilege to view this behaviour close up in Costa Rica 🌳

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Good to see a diversity of insects at the light trap here in Costa Rica. Still, it’s obvious the decline in abundance. #insectdiversity

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Having an intense, rewarding and a little bit damp time learning everything about the singing crickets from the best Orthopterogists in the world! 🌎 🦗

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hello from me and some beetle friends here in the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica.

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Obligatory curator photo at good old Terminal 3! 🪰 ✈️ 🦗

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

@amentsoc.bsky.social President address by Professor Ed Turner on the state of #insects globally, locally and the measures we can take to study and conserve them 🌳 🪲 @camzoology.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Nail art beautifully provided by the fourteen-spot ladybird 💛

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The day begins at #Insectopia on this sunny day. Hoping to meet lots of #insects 🐞 ☀️ 👋 from the team @amentsoc.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Had a lovely day learning about palaeoecology of #WickenFen and past Mesolithic faunas, some still present today! Beetle elytra in abundance ☀️ 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Celebrated #InternationalWomensDay with my @NHM_London tribe thanks to The IDEA Group - Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. Action. Special thanks to my fellow entomologist @DrButterflyH for pioneering the cause. Divided we stand, united we rise 🙌🏻

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterist’s Day sixth great speaker is Steve Docker of @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social AIDGAP natural history pubs on new ideas for identifying 🪲. New keys, utilising old images from Joy’s A Practical Handbook of British Beetles. ‘Distinctive Terrestrial Beetles’ coming soon! 🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterist’s day fifth great speaker is Charles Barker @colsocbi.bsky.social social media whizz, on how does the declining dung beetle population affect mung bean growth! #scarabaeinae 💩 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterist’s Day @colsocbi.bsky.social fourth inspirational speaker is @kitenet.bsky.social on why record #beetles Good to be reminded for ‘physical and spiritual wellbeing’ Here’s a guide on how to use iRecord tinyurl.com/2c65b7sy

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterist’s Day third speaker is Kevin Rowley on using iRecord for water beetle records @nfbr.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social Interesting insights into how to encourage recorders coleoptera.org.uk/aquatic/home

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterists’s day second speaker is Louise Garcia on recording Ireland’s beetles. And the perplexing case of Melolontha melolontha 🪲 records.biodiversityireland.ie/stats/record... @colsocbi.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Coleopterist’s day begins with an excellent presentation by @ukladybirds.bsky.social on 61 years of the Biological Records Centre. Using biological records for abundance trends. And no talk could go by without mention of ladybirds 🐞 ☀️ @colsocbi.bsky.social

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@colsocbi.bsky.social Only one day to go before Coleopterist’s Day 🪲 🔊

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! Let’s get to it and do good science! 🌳 🪲

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A late wintry night at the Museum. Put the beetles and bugs to bed 🪲 🌒

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Having the best time at University of Arizona Coleoptera collections. Click bait with these big bottomed Calosoma but my heart is with these cute little Lebiinae ‘ground beetles’ Calybe laetula 🧡

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

‘Full genomes from 5000 beetles and we still don’t know a thing’ is exactly what we are researching right now! 🪲 😅😭

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Can someone please buy me this microscope and camera for all my imaging needs? Thanks. 🪲 Having a very fun time investigating the beetle collections in the Wendy Moore lab at University of Arizona 🌵

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Setting up long term Malaise trapping in the beautiful Sonoran desert, Arizona. Dog helping. 🪲 🐝

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Second #beetle adventure of the year 2024! A busman’s holiday to the beautiful historic & teaching collections @ZoologyMuseum Found my target taxa & also did some #Carabidae identification. 10/10 will return 🪲 Thanks to the great staff for making this collection accessible 🔬

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