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@ColSocBI needs you!👇
The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland promotes beetle study, recording, and conservation.
Your donations help us keep things buzzing, supporting field trips and website maintenance.
Thank you 🙂🐞
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Come to the #insect fair this Saturday. It will be fun and informative 🪲 🐝 🪰 🦗 🦋 🐞 🦟🪳🐜🦂🕸️
14 Jul 2024
Countdown to our Annual Exhibition & Trade Fair! #aesfair🎉Join us @kemptonparkrace Sat 28 Sept 2024, 11:00-16:30. Entry: £6 adults, £3 ages 7-17. Bug Clubbers free!📷Details: bit.ly/AESfair2024 Traders, check your email or message exhibition@amentsoc.org. Please share!
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Minotaur, a fantastic beast.
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Our amazing polymath president @thiswordistaken has authored parts of this amazing work. Objectively "the book" of Autumn 2024. Order via the link or at @amentsoc exhibition this Saturday 28th.🐞🐞🐞
25 Sep 2024
INSECTS! This is a super book and I’m proud to have made an author contribution to championing these vitally important creatures for a better world 🪲 🌎 🌳 Buy your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/res-… #insects @RoyEntSoc
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We will be in attendance this Saturday!🐞come along if you are interested in spectating the Coleopterist vs. Dipterist bare-knuckle boxing match between us and @DipteristsForum (we will win)
26 Aug 2024
Last chance to book your spot at #aesfair - the UK's oldest insect fair, running since 1939! Join us on Sat, Sep 28, 2024 @kemptonparkrace 11:00 - 16:30 to sell insect pets, equipment, art, and more. Info & booking: bit.ly/AESfair2024
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
7 Aug 2024
It is always an exquisite pleasure to be reunited with our beautiful and elegant Rosalia in her magnificent mountain beech forests! The species is restricted neither to mountains nor to beech, but it is here where its spirit lies. May our encounters continue long into the future!
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Today I’ve been very proud to have released 480 Glow-worm larvae I’ve reared this summer to Nosterfield Nature Reserve in Yorkshire!
Here’s a bit about the project 🧵
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
18 Sep 2024
New atlas published 🎉 many congratulations to Howard Mendel, author of the new atlas of click-beetles, the latest in the series of recording scheme atlases supported by BRC. Early-bird discount available at field-studies-council.org/sh…
ALT Cover and two inset page layouts for the new click-beetle atlas, with message "Available from FSC Publications - EARLY BIRD OFFER: save 20% on orders placed by 31 OCTOBER 2024"
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
18 Sep 2024
Cassida hemisphaerica … Looking like a drop of water on a Dandelion leaf, this Nationally Scarce ‘A’ beetle was spotted in our garden yesterday. A glistening 4mm long jewel. Our thanks to Michael Geiser for the ID.
#beetles #WildlifeGardening
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I’ve been particularly unobservant for several decades and only just noticed this rather large spine on the rear tibia of a relatively common beetle. Give yourself a pat on the back if you can name it! @ColSocBI
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@ColSocBI Please help sign and share this petition. Wildlife need healthy soil and real grass not polluting plastic that overheats
change.org/p/ban-the-sale-of…
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
2 Sep 2024
This rather bizarre looking larvae (c.3-4 mm long) will (hopefully) develop into one of the delightful Figwort weevils (Cionus sp.). Apparently they are covered in shiny goo which is distasteful to predators and parasites. On Common Figwort in our garden.
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
5 Sep 2024
Pulling out the big guns this week, to capture the imagination and fascination of young minds for #entomology #insects #museumcollections
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The worst beetle workshop in the world would still be better than the best cranefly workshop😉
Nonetheless, if you fancy reminding yourself why beetles are better than craneflies, book below for the 14th!
6 Sep 2024
Just one week left to the best Cranefly Workshop you'll attend this year, guaranteed...
Grab your net, open your ears, but most importantly, reserve your spot on the course now!
bit.ly/cranefly-intro
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
23 Aug 2024
Why is it so important that the National Museum of Ireland- Natural History closes for refurbishment on the 1st of September?- @aoifehur the Head of Operations at the National Museum of Ireland explains the next steps in the process.
museum.ie/en-IE/News/Nationa…
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Onthophagus joannae, a very scarce beetle in Nottinghamshire known only from Clumber Park and adjacent Forestry England land. This specimen pitfall trapped on “new” NT heathland that was previously Scots Pine plantation. @ColSocBI @NTClumberPark
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Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland retweeted
19 Aug 2024
Geotrupes stercorarius demonstrating how they can dig so well, really can push your fingers apart easily! Also, superrr cute! 🥰 @kentdowns6 @NoningtonFarms @Rothamsted @DungBeetleFarms #coleoptera #dungisfun #teambeetle
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