26 Oct 2021
On the #VirtualCollectionTour of @MCZHarvard, @DryopoidDarling shows us a historic section of the collection that features insect morphological anomalies. #VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #USA 🇺🇸
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26 Oct 2021
Our final tour stop is at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) with Tommy McElrath (@monotomidae). The collection @INHSillinois is home to over 7 million insect and other arthropod specimens! 🪲🐜🦗
#VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #USA 🇺🇸
ALT A still taken from the tour providing a view of open drawers, full of specimens. All are neatly aligned, in between racks of many many drawers, with Tommy hunched over a drawer at the far end of the room.
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26 Oct 2021
Luz Miryam Gomez presents on the entomological Collection of the Tecnológico de Antioquia (#CETdeA). Their collection specializes in forensic flies! 🪰#ForensicEntomology #VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #Colombia🇨🇴
ALT A screen grab from the talk, examining their collection holdings. Many flies of forensic importance... 89,000 specimens!
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26 Oct 2021
Staying in Brazil, we now head over to Museo de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo and take a tour with Sonia Casari, Gabriel Biffi (@gabriel_biffi), Thiago Polizei, and Juan Pablo Botero (@jp_botero) 🏛️
#VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #Brazil 🇧🇷
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26 Oct 2021
Now let's go to #SouthAmerica to Universidade Federal do Paraná with John Lattke, Rodrigo Feitosa (@rsmfeitosa), and Renato Machado #VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #Brazil 🇧🇷
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26 Oct 2021
Andrew Smith, @theognete, and François Génier highlight the strengths of the Canadian @MuseumofNature (CMNC). They estimate there to be 300,000 #weevil specimens in the collection, mostly from the Americas.
#VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #Canada 🇨🇦
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26 Oct 2021
Be like Tommy (@monotomidae), visit the @WIRCInsects /w @mutillidae
#ECN2021 #VirtualCollectionTour
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26 Oct 2021
Now let's take a look at the Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (WIRC) @WIRCInsects with Craig Brabant (@mutillidae) #USA 🇺🇸
#VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021
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26 Oct 2021
Kicking things off, we join the team at @zmuccoleoptera @asolodovnikov1 @neolycus @AslakKH and @sgselvantharan, for a virtual tour of the insect collection at Natural History Museum of Denmark. #VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021 #Denmark 🇩🇰
ALT An example of one of the beetle drawers, filled with unit trays and specimens.
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26 Oct 2021
Next up, our highly anticipated session ‘Collections of the World’ with ECN vice-president @LepanusLady.
We all love to visit other collections stores and today we’ll be virtually touring 8 #insect collections from around the world! #VirtualCollectionTour #ECN2021
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23 Nov 2020
Insect collections of Finnish Museum of Natural History were presented online at @EntCollNet #ECN2020 congress. #VirtualCollectionTour by @tarasov_sergio @pasi_sihvonen Jaakko Mattila @luomus_zoology @Luomus @HelsinkiUni 10 million specimens available for research 🪲🪳🦋🦗🦟🪰🐜
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I couldn’t wait up for the #ECN2020 #virtualCollectionTour but enjoyed the talks before them. I am sure going to catch up with them online #collectionsOfTheWorld #DiversityandInclusion @EntCollNet
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour: For our final tour (yes, we know 😢) we visit @CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra. Olivia Evangelista provides an overview of the huge collection, with a whopping 12 million specimens (22,000 PRIMARY TYPES) & current research. #ECN2020
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour: Rich Leschen now serenades us AND shows us around @mwlr_nz New Zealand Arthropod Collection in Auckland, New Zealand. The largest collection in NZ! #ECN2020
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour:
In Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A., @KrohnZone shows specimens in the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History and the recent research projects for which they've been examined.
#ECN2020
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour:
North to Idaho!
Luc Leblanc gives us a tour of the William F. Barr Entomological Museum at the University of Idaho, U.S.A.
Highlighting not only the collection's strengths but also some of their outreach activity!
#ECN2020
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour:
More Mexican goodness!
Now we go to the Departamento Agricultura Sociedad y Ambiente with Rémy Vandame, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad San Cristóbal de Las Casas, #Mexico #ECN2020 #Bees
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour: Over to Mexico we go! 🇲🇽
Ivonne Garzón provides an insight into Mexico’s Nacional Insect Collection, at the University of Mexico, Mexico City. Great space and a strong team of curators! #ECN2020
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Cristian Beza - Beza (@BezaCristian) Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, #Guatemala
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10 Nov 2020
#VirtualCollectionTour: Next stop Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The @carnegiemnh is home to 7.5 million pinned specimens. Including “lots of the good stuff… BEETLES!” - @americanbeetles #ECN2020
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