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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anyone know what is attached to this Ich?

black and orange wasp specimen on a white background

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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild caribou using shotgun metagenomics, with a start date in 2027. This opportunity is currently limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Feel free to email me for details if interrested!

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Yukon is beautiful! (Note that I am not showing you the black fly bites).

A view with a cloudy sky, a large snow capped mountain in the middle with a lake below. In from there is a pale yellow
And green forest leading to a dark green forest.

Close up of tiny green willows growing on an abundant mix of green mosses with a puddle of water in the middle

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period.

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Does anyone have access to this? Review of the genus Corticeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of America north of Mexico By Triplehorn C.A. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 83: 287-306, 1990

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Does anyone recognize this wing? It was found inside a fish stomach from Northern Vancouver Island.

An insect wing floating in liquid with a paper label behind it

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I’m so proud of my son for pursuing his interests. Here is a brief view of his summer work using @inaturalist.bsky.social to document biodiversity in Strathcona Provincial Park. youtu.be/7K1Ov2dG01c

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Strathcona S1 Ep 06

YouTube video by TELUS STORYHIVE

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Being stumped by a staphylinid is nothing new for me but this 2mm long intertidal beast appears to have a tarsal formula of 2-2-2! And now I am more confused. Any recognize it or have guesses? From coastal British Columbia.

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Conservation Job Board @conservationjobs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

JOB OPENING: Curator of Birds: Curator of Birds $78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum

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Curator of Birds

Curator of Birds $78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨 3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today I sat in a river all day looking for and counting an endangered snail called a Shortface Lanx. A great team and despite a couple of hours of finding nothing we eventually had success. With two more days of surveys I’m hoping we continue to have success.

Close up view of a wet rock showing two snails

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Does anyone have access to The Canadian Entomologist? I'm looking for Mank EW (1939b) Scotochroa and a closely allied new genus Scotochroides, (Coleoptera, Melandryidae). The Canadian Entomologist 71: 181–183. I have a Scotochroa from an unexpected location I want to know more about.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Late night fly confusion… what the hell is this? #Yukon Bioblitz calcareous bog oddities.

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A Sagebrush Sheep Moth (Hemileuca hera) on Mount Kobau in the Okanagan. What a great place to be for bugs! #Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Some sleeping bees on a foggy morning at the beach. Coelioxys up top and Ammophila below them. #Hymenoptera #Macrophotography #Macro

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Biological Survey of Canada @biologicalsurvey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The summer newsletter is now available biologicalsurvey.ca/publications...

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Newsletters – Biological Survey of Canada

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I just found Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus in my backyard. Oh so small!

A tan and white striped globular springtail on a white background

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The predator becomes the prey. Hudsonian Whiteface captured by a Great Sundew.

A field of red and light green sundew with a dragonfly stuck to multiple plants

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I was shocked when I opened my moth trap this morning as I did not know what this was. Turns out the Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor) was introduced to Vancouver. This is the first record I can find of it on Vancouver Island.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Does anyone have a pdf of Beal RS Jr. (1967) A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma (Coleoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 281–312.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Some of the Nivicolous slime moulds my son and I found today.

Closeup of iridescent purple balls on a brown stick

Close up of slime mould on a brown stick

Close up of black slime mould on dry grass. One is crushed showing yellow spores

Closeup of a brown slime mould on dry grass

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Cleaning my office and found out I have the first three printings of @robcannings.bsky.social fantastic Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon. I remember picking up a spare copy… but I clearly did that twice!

Three nearly identical green books with a red dragonfly on the cover. The background is a cork floor

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I had a rather horrendous travel day yesterday. 3:30am wake up for an early fight expecting to be home before lunch. Flight cancelled just before boarding. New itinerary put us home 12 hours later than expected! All for a 14 minute flight to the island. We got to Vancouver, pulled out bags and 1/3

Single green tree on a green lawn in the middle of the ferry terminal parking area. Blue sky with white clouds

A fuzzy picture of two brown pelicans on brown water

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Checking in to a flight at Nanaimo Airport in British Columbia I was pleased to see this display on pollinators. I just had to share it.

“Pollinators are Essential to Life on Earh” written in blue above some information and three boxes of pinned insects

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A successful nivicolus slimemold hunt with my son today and yesterday. Once you get your eye in these are everywhere as the snow retreats.

Tiny yellow and brown shapes on a branch

Close up of a black blob with bright yellow spores spilling out from one end

Close up of multiple white masses with cracked surface

Close up of a twig with a white surface and white blobs intermixed with stalked black blobs

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Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Oh, how I wish someone would rear this unknown Agromyza species on ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor). Now is the time to look for larvae. You can find them anywhere from British Columbia to New Mexico. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Genus Agromyza

Agromyza from Capital Regional District, BC, Canada on April 26, 2025 at 01:29 PM by Rebecca Reader-Lee

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I set up my UV light last night for the first time this year and was rewarded by two Sphinx (Smerinthus ophthalmica) and one Pheosia californica.

A larger brown moth with pink hind wings which have blue spots. Sitting on someone’s thumb

A very dark broth moth sitting with wing closed

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Biological Survey of Canada @biologicalsurvey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Seeking contributions for the upcoming issue of the Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (biologicalsurvey.ca/publications...). e.g.s include articles on aspects of Canada's biodiversity, collecting trips, photos, announcements, etc. Please send items to giberson(at)upei(dot)ca by 19 May

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Newsletters – Biological Survey of Canada

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Biological Survey of Canada @biologicalsurvey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Call for nominations to the Board of the Biological Survey of Canada. To run, you should be a member of the BSC. Send a brief bio including your background in Canadian Biodiversity studies to biologicalsurvey@gmail.com by mid-May. The slate of candidates will be voted on at the AGM in late June.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A little crawling water beetle (Haliplidae) fun from my weekend. Haliplus immaculicollis, Haliplus fulvus and Peltodytes callosus all from a tiny pond near my house.

Small pale brown beetle with darker spots glued to a point

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A little Monday night collection management led to this combination. Criorhina bubulcus is a beast if a fly. Seen next to an Okanagana cicada.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just transported part of a bed on the roof of my car for about 130km. I noticed the insect build up when I checked how secure it was mid drive. I only noticed the awesome lady beetle (Hyperaspis postica) when I carefully check at home. I think I need to make a small net for the roof of my car!

Close up of a small black beetle with orange spots

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Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

16,500-year-old robber fly from permafrost-frozen ground squirrel burrow in the Klondike Goldfields! Cool new paper just out in the #CanadianEntomologist by Scott Cocker, Rob Cannings, and Tristan McKnight. Photo by Hugh McIntosh, Royal BC Museum. #Beringia #Asilidae doi.org/10.4039/tce....

Subfossil head of Lasiopogon robber fly. Front, side, top, and back views.

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A day with Lamprey… it was worth to early ferry to get to the Beaty Museum.

A blue glove holding a small preserved Pacific Lamprey

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I got into the ferry line up at 5:20am this morning. I function okay in the morning just not that well before 6:30! With the ferry crossing and drive across Vancouver I’ll park and get to the museum about 9:30. Then the fun begins!

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sleeping Coelioxys bees. I was first introduced to these bees and their sleeping behaviour by @ibycter.bsky.social at a local beach here on Vancouver Island #bee #Hymenoptera #macrophotography

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I always find things to buy at the twice yearly Rotary used book sale. Of course I already own two of these but I am sure my son will claim them or I’ll find another young biologist who can put them to be good use.

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

An alien-like Western Tiger Beetle larva (Cicindela oregona) waiting at the entrance of its burrow for prey. One of my favourite photos I have taken! #iNaturalist #Coleoptera #TigerBeetle #macrophotography

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 07/03/2025

New book: A checklist to identify all known species of flies in Canada! doi.org/10.3897/ab.e... "This checklist is a fundamental piece of work that will guide the assessment of the conservation status of those species." @bioinfocus.bsky.social

Cover of "Checklist of the Flies (Diptera) in Canada" featuring two fly images, with contributors and publisher details below.

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Horns are known from several beetle families, but click beetles rarely come to mind. Nevertheless, some species like this Semiotus from Ecuador have horn-like projections, two on the head and two "shoulder" horns on the pronotum. What are they used for? That's another mystery!

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Scott Gilmore @scottgilmore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Someone was getting rid of this for free and thankfully my neighbour new I could use it and let me know about it. I have just doubled my drawer capacity!

A two door cabinet with door open showing 24 entomology drawers.

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