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Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks to Jordan Rainey in the Staphylinid Madness symposium for sharing some full-color photos of the most upsetting beetle I’ve ever seen in my life

A termite faces off with something that looks like a Michelin man pseudoscorpion but is in fact the deformed abdomen of an aleocharine staphylinid who lives as an inquiline in the termite nest

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Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pleased to share our latest contribution to knowledge on West Indian Staphylinidae in The Coleopterists Bulletin! The first modern revision of West Indian Belonuchus in 82 years — 7 new species, 2 synonymies, lectotypes, illustrated keys + maps. 🌴 🪲 Read more & find paper here: tinyurl.com/3f646nnu

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The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

#LiteratureNotice Rainey & Ivie. Revision of the West Indian Belonuchus Nordmann, 1837 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Staphylininae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewSpecies

Dorsal view of Belonuchus heads. a) B. gagates, showing the impressed fovea (yellow) and the longitudinal impression (red), b) B. tenebros, new species, showing the impressed fovea (yellow).

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The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#LiteratureNotice Maruyama et al. The second species of the enigmatic genus Microblattellus Ferrer, 2006 ( #Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) from Cambodia: A possibility of termitophily in the genus doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #NewSpecies #DarklingBeetles .

FIGURES 1–9. Microblattellus kakizoei sp. nov., holotype. 1, habitus, dorsal view; 2, ditto, ventral view; 3, head and pronotum, ventral view; 4, habitus, micro-Ct scan, dorsal view; 5, ditto, lateral view; 6, ditto, ventral view; 7, head, micro-Ct scan, dorsal view; 8, ditto, lateral view; 9, ditto, ventral view

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Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Leaf beetles that mimic ants and engage in trophallaxis! Incredible!

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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Perhaps the most beautiful rove beetle I have ever seen, Rhyncocheilus aureus, from the jungles of Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.

A mating pair of golden orange and black/white rove beetles on a brown fern

A golden orange and black/white rove beetle on a brown fern

A top down view of a golden orange and black/white rove beetle on a brown fern

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A favorite old friend showed up yesterday evening and made me happy: the silly speedy fairy-winged cricket hunting wasp, Ms Olixon banksii 🧡 The tiny silly wings flutter when she's excited. Also she's capable of making tiny squeaking noises, which I've recorded 👀

Dark orange ant-like wasp with long antennae and a pair of tiny silly fairy wings waving

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.ac.uk · 02/07/2025

📢New Paper: Nature-friendly agroecological practices 🚜🌱🦋can enhance biodiversity and boost some crop yields, but high costs and land-use trade-offs mean most approaches remain financially unviable @ukceh.bsky.social Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/agroeco...

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Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For those interested in sustainable farming in the UK- please check these findings out! Happy to see it published and to have been part of this excellent project 🪲🐜🪱🚜

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Lead author Dr Ben Woodcock, UKCEH, said that agroecological methods benefit biodiversity and food security and, long-term, provide more secure farm incomes. But as habitats take several years to establish, subsidies are essential to support farmers in the shift to these sustainable systems. 4/

Image of wildflower margin in a farm field and a quote: "Without the introduction of new financial incentives, many farmers will be deterred from adopting agroecological farming practices. This could leave them locked into high input, intensive farming systems and more exposed to the impacts of pesticide resistance, declining soil health and climte change." Dr Ben Woodcock, UKCEH

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

✅ Increased numbers of earthworms, pollinators and natural predators that feed on crop pests ✅ Higher soil carbon ✅ Overall increased crop yields on farmed areas due to healthier soils, greater pollination and natural pest control ❌ Cost of transition www.ceh.ac.uk/press/nature... 3/

Satellite image over one of the farm sites shows difference in oilseed rape slug damage between the different farming methods

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Nature-friendly farming boosts both biodiversity and crop yields — but scaling it up may need more government subsidies to become as profitable as intensive agriculture, a new study led by UKCEH and @rothamsted.bsky.social has found www.ceh.ac.uk/press/nature... 🧵🧪 1/

Wildflowers in an in-field strip in an arable field

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Piotr Naskrecki @piotr-naskrecki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Once, in Gorongosa NP, I thought that I had found Halucinogenia, a near-mythical Cambrian animal with spikes on its back. The creature turned out to be a caterpillar of Acridotarsa melipecta who lives as an inquiline in the colonies of the termite Schedorhinotermes lamanianus. Still cool, though.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig. If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...

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The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @colsocbi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We are the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland!🐞, Our aim is to further beetle research, standardise and promote recording, and to develop and encourage public awareness and conservation of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands. Check us out: www.colsoc.org

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Home | Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland

ColSoc is the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland, dedicated to the study of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands.

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Steph Skipp @stephskipp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Beetle doodle of the day

A small ring bound notebook with a line drawing of a rove beetle on it. The rove beetle is meant to be from the subfamily ‘Pselaphinae’, so it has quite chunky proportions, with a large, down-turned abdomen and exaggerated antennae (I’ve exaggerated these more than seen in actual species, with a very wide segments and a massive club on the end). The beetle is facing to the left and is lightly shaded with hatching. Above the beetle in bold, outlined writing are the words, ‘Staphylinidae’ and ‘Pselaphinae’.

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Jakob Jilg @weevil-see.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A velvet worm (Onychophora: Peripatidae) in Chiriqí (Panamá). I was incredibly amazed to find this specimen under a bunch of logs and stones, but had to suppress my urge to frantically turn logs after realizing how dangerous some snakes in the area are...

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Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Taking Bluesky for a spin. New phd and new platform! I recently completed my masters in Montana and moved to Czech Republic to join the Insect Symbiosis Lab! Check out some of the beetles I’m working with - they’re crazy looking. Beetle left, termite right. bucek-lab.org/projects/Ale...

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