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British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💷🐉 The Emperor Dragonfly comes in second! With almost 144,000 votes – a brilliant show of support for one of Britain’s most spectacular dragonflies! It may not be on the new banknotes, but we're delighted to see British wildlife taking centre stage. 🐝🦔🦉🐦 Congratulations to the winners! 👏

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 01/10/2026

Summoned by the gonging, Professor Crutchfeld stepped into the clearing. The little caterpillars had done well this time in their offering.

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Thomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Find the moth.

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Lauren @scigirl02.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The nice thing about academia is that it provides opportunities for your dreams to evolve. Like dreaming you’re late and unprepared for a really important conference talk rather than a big test.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We're excited for #Ento26! UKCEH is involved in talks on invasive species, honeybee gut microbiomes, insect sensing, & the Symposia marking 200 years of the Entomological Club - here Grace Slade will present on new approaches to understanding insect change, incl @glitrs.bsky.social research 🐛🧪 1/

Image of Ashy mining bee on banner image promoting Ento26 8-10 September, Cardiff University, Wales. Image by Rory Lewis.

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Great talk by Reading alumnus (now at @swanseauni.bsky.social) Matthew Sparks on fly vision in urban environments at @royentsoc.bsky.social #Ento26

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 01/09/2026

Entomological rodeos

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The new transitional insect/crustacean fossil might not look very insectlike, if you think of modern insects like butterflies and beetles, but check out its reconstruction (left) next to a photo of the oldest living lineage of extant insects, the bristetails (right). www.science.org/content/arti...

Paleo art by artist Chao Tan showing an orange, lobster-like animal standing on a rock above water.

Macro photo of a silvery, cylindrical insect, a jumping bristletail, standing on sand.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

July was one of the hottest months in the U.S. on record — even hotter than July during the 1936 Dust Bowl. Meanwhile, Trump is gutting renewable energy projects and fast-tracking dirty fossil fuel production that causes climate change. He’s selling out the future of our planet.

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It's Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been

The contiguous US averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit in July, even hotter than the July 1936 Dust Bowl.

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

2019: climate emergency 2022: climate dread 2026: climate despair

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Had to make a pond pattern featuring some of my favorite guys!! 🐸🪷

A tiled pattern of various pond animals and water lilies with yellow flowers. The animals featured are mostly invertebrates and herps, such as a dragonfly, damselfly, water bug, caddisfly larva, water beetles, water strider, dragonfly larva, tadpole, rough-skinned newt, and pacific tree frog. There are small duckweed plants interspersed in between. They are illustrated on a blue-teal background.

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I have an orgy of Odonata over my pond at the moment Dig a pond, fill and watch live explode in front of you

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

strawberry season in California rn is so peak

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

By uncanny coincidence our 2D colleague Sir David Flattenborough also had a birthday this week, seen here celebrating with our insect collections team. Happy 100th birthday to the real Sir David and thanks for championing insects in series like Life in the Undergrowth!

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Crocus-DLA @crocus-dla.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In April the first cohort of Crocus students got together in south Wales to learn learn about effective collaboration and careers with environmental regulators and policy makers.

Cohort photo at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff

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London Wildlife Trust @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

You don’t need to travel far to see orchids some can be found right here in London. 🌸 Our grasslands and meadows support an amazing variety of plant life, and orchids are one of the best signs of a healthy habitat. #Orchids #Wildflowers #LondonNature #LondonWildlifeTrust

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Huge congratulations to the winning team of the Student Forum #PubQuiz - Team Lavender Beetle Marriage! 🏆 Hope you’re all having a fantastic time at #SF26! Thanks to everyone who joined us at @NewcastleUni.bsky.social - It's been a truly great celebration of #InsectScience 🐞

Team "Lavender Beetle Marriage" at the Student Forum - Isobel Oliver; Zack Reynolds; Lily Keyzor; Nate Handleman; Leo Carroll; Madeline Taipale; Amy Jose

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Beefly Alley did NOT disappoint this lunchtime 13 Bombylius major (m & f) and it’s still early in the season! I LOVE SPRING @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons

Bugguide photo of a "Thief weevil" (Attelabidae: Pterocolus sp) by user Metrioptera. He is a jolly iridescent turquoise and sort of rectangular in shape, with an unusually wide stance.

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Many things waking up in the neighborhood today.

A soggy Green Shieldbug rescued from a bucket of water, springtails climbed aboard to hitch a ride out too!

Scarlet Tiger caterpillar - a black bristly caterpillar with a yellow and blue stripe down the centre

A hedgehog picked out by phone light on the pavement

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Last chance to register 🌊 Dive into “Aquatic Ecosystems in the Data Age” with talks on freshwater biodiversity conservation, eDNA biomonitoring, management strategies and more. 📍 Online • Workshop included 📅 Deadline: 17:00 (GMT), 25 Feb 🔽 buff.ly/uLDNn9A @entsocamerica.bsky.social

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Aquatic Insects SIG 2026

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Eden Ruiz @edenruiz.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Piece done for @paulscottcanavan.com ‘s amazing Mentorship! Can’t wait to put everything I’ve learned into my next drawings🪷

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Bees 🐝

$This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!$

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

For local folk I'll be talking @carabidaeuk.bsky.social at Kintbury Wildlife Group tomorrow, 7:30pm 🪲https://kintburywildlife.co.uk/Current-programme.html. If I'm organised enough might have some specimens to look at...possibly live ones too!

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ok so I’ve seen a lot of pinned insects in my time but I’ve NEVER seen wing rests for mosquitoes The @unirdgento.bsky.social have been charged to give me data about these specimens in the @uniofreading.bsky.social collection because they are FABULOUS @royentsoc.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Wonderful afternoon with @unirdgento.bsky.social students, @chrisfoster.bsky.social & @wetconservatrix.bsky.social from @uniofreading.bsky.social The @nhm-london.bsky.social has joined forces with the teaching & the @royentsoc.bsky.social are providing financial support (👋@simon2ward.bsky.social )

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all my followers

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Last year our field trip to the legendary Wytham Woods was marked by heavy rain. This year it was raining...ladybirds! 🐞☔ Reasonable numbers of 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds heading for overwintering sites, though both swamped by an extraordinary abundance of Harlequins. @ukladybirds.bsky.social

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A better world is possible

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We and our insects are on our way to @royentsoc.bsky.social 25! Team Reading Entomology checking the precious cargo at Euston station. One slight casualty of mad taxi dash across London but nothing a bit of glue can't fix...

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OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 06/08/2025

This is the best advice for how to be better at ANYTHING in TTRPGs. Be a fan of the other people and their roles. Love the other PCs. Admire the DM and get excited for their work. Geek out over the stuff your friends at the table are doing and want them to be happy! Everything else will work out.

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Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Warlock of course!

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

No kings in this country! ...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hollyhock weevil season

Two pairs of grey weevils with orange legs mating on a hollyhock bud. The female on the bottom of each stack has a remarkably long nose

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Joey Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Jealous of all my colleagues getting their Daggerheart preorders in today! I missed my window 😭

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A wonderful week for undergraduate Entomology teaching at Reading whether in the labs or out on campus

Laboratory benches with rows of microscopes, each with an illuminated box of insect specimes

Pinned specimen of a burying beetle - an orange and black beetle with yellow hairs

Students using white sweep nets in a meadow of grass and buttercups with trees beyond

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES I feel as happy as this one :)

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GLiTRS @glitrs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉 We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜 "Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa A summary 🧵 below (1/7)

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me every time I meet a fellow author/artist/comic creator that I follow online IRL:

Tweet from @mooncatvivi:

thanks for spending time with me today. can u just fill out this questionnaire
- did i act ok
- was i cool
- was i fun
- did you have fun
- did i do anything wrong

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Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I like big bugs and I cannot lie

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