@BritEntSoc

The British Entomological and Natural History Society This account is now inactive, please find us at https://xitter.cf/t.co/zQsOYMD60L

 Dinton Pastures
benhs.org.uk
Joined July 2014
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Cockchafers, also known as Maybugs, have distinctive, fan-shaped antennae. Our expert guide to cockchafers explains how to identify this fascinating beetle, plus facts about their diet and habitat. discoverwildlife.com/animal-…

Cockchafer guide: how to identify and where to see - Discover Wildlife

Our expert guide to cockchafers explains how to identify this fascinating beetle, plus facts about their diet and habitat.

discoverwildlife.com
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A huge thank you to @BritEntSoc for awarding me a grant to help cover the annual cost of the schemes website - it is hugely appreciated 🙏 ! It ensures this valuable resource can continue for another year, providing you with everything you need for British Agromyzidae.
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Six more British Muscidae genera just added to my Flickr site: Limnospila, Macrorchis, Orchisia, Pseudolimnophora, Schoenomyza and Spanochaeta flickr.com/photos/63075200@N…. Images & detailed species accounts. Biodiversity in the raw. Look at that colourful Schoenomyza litorella head.
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Colin Plant, editor of the Entomologist's Record & Craig Macadam, author of Riverfly Handbook are among the winners of this year's Marsh Award for Entomology. Congratulations!🐛🪲🐜🦋
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Happy #Halloween Once more it’s time for the Dracula Bug :) (sampled from #wildlifegarden 10ish years ago) @NHM_London - @AshWhiffin In her maggot years picked this out of one of the samples much to all our joy
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This afternoon, the MCT is at Conway Hall to recognise the winners of this year's Marsh Awards for Entomology. These Awards are run in partnership with the British Entomological and Natural History Society (@BritEntSoc) 🏆
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Replying to @MarshAwards @BritEntSoc
The Marsh Entomology Award supports field-based ecology and recognises individuals working with any invertebrate family that have made outstanding contributions to entomological science.
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I was honoured and humbled to receive the Marsh Award for Entomology at the @BritEntSoc exhibition today. It was a great day catching up with many of the entomologists that I’ve met over the years.
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The European Hornet - Vespa crabro - a magnificent species and much maligned. Sadly these are being attacked for all sorts of reasons including misidentification :( This one had a mouthful of mud to help with nest construction @KneppWilding @BritEntSoc @amentsoc
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Midweek! Entomology with @BritEntSoc , fuzzy in both beer 🍺 @cloudwaterbrew and @BlackSabbath 🤘
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Awfully sad thread, but please read and sign the petition
Paul Powlesland
@paulpowlesland7 Apr 2024
Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵
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First up for the @BritEntSoc Members Day student presentation’s is @BrookesCEEC Daniel Bardey @DBardey on the Feather-legged Assassin Bugs of Australia.
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Emily Armstrong from @BrookesCEEC is our next @BritEntSoc Members Day student presenter with her talk ‘Beyond the buzz: Do honey bees need a higher dopamine fix?’
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Great student presentation by @OxfordBiology’s Elsa Heywood who has been doing her research on butterfly responses to global change at @morethanadodo. Yet another example of why museum collections are so important. @BritEntSoc Members Day 2024
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Richard Gallon @BritishSpiders: Spider & Harvestman recording scheme has 1.3 million records to date & keep them coming please! Some spider species are adapting to changing habitats, whilst other species are restricted to very localised specialist habitats srs.britishspiders.org.uk/po…
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Cryptachaea blattea seems to like traffic cones & like traffic cones, it’s increasing around the U.K. Richard Gallon @BritishSpiders is highlighting some spider species & their recorded sightings at @BritEntSoc’s Members Day
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Spiders are coming into UK from abroad. Many species establishing around estuaries possibly due to shipping. The horticultural trade & climate change is also enabling establishment around the UK. Richard Gallon @BritishSpiders at @BritEntSoc Members Day in @morethanadodo
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Monarch butterfly - if caught up in air currents, especially in North America’s hurricane season, they can get blown off course & turn up in UK. Their larval foodplant is milkweed & not a plant grown here so unlikely to establish. Pete Eeles @ukbutterflies at @BritEntSoc Mem. Day
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Lobster moth - possibly the weirdest caterpillar we’ve got in the UK! In the 18th century some people thought it really was a crustacean like a lobster but able to live on the land. It wasn’t known then that it was a moth larvae. Peter Marren on the naming of insects @BritEntSoc
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“Fashionable ladies (18th century) tended to rear beautiful butterflies in their conservatories, whereas the gentlemen tended to stick pins in them.” Peter Marren on the naming of insects @BritEntSoc Members Day in @morethanadodo
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