Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland

Promoting and recording 4,000+ beetle species on these islands. 🪲
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[Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @ColSocBI]

@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 🙂🐞

Link : https://t.co/rAQfI73Ani

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

Come to the #insect fair this Saturday. It will be fun and informative 🪲 🐝 🪰 🦗 🦋 🐞 🦟🪳🐜🦂🕸️

[Alison Hayward @alimhay]

Minotaur, a fantastic beast.

[Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @ColSocBI]

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.🐞🐞🐞

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

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: https://t.co/vo6yzFWnTK #insects @RoyEntSoc

[Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @ColSocBI]

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)

[AES - amentsoc.org @amentsoc]

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: https://t.co/L3P6leZ3D9

[Dr Conrad P.D.T. Gillett 🇪🇺 @coleopteriste]

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!

[Pete Cooper @PeteMRCooper]

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 🧵

[BRC @___BRC___]

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 https://t.co/n8FzHR8Ten

[Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum]

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

[dutto @TBeetles]

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

[Sue Doxat @SDoxat]

@ColSocBI Please help sign and share this petition. Wildlife need healthy soil and real grass not polluting plastic that overheats
https://t.co/0y2Uag1sEm

[Terry&JudyWood @jwood_t]

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.

[dutto @TBeetles]

Compost bin Monotoma, bicolor, longicollis, picipes and spinicollis. All from my son’s compost bin, Derbyshire 2024. @ColSocBI

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

Pulling out the big guns this week, to capture the imagination and fascination of young minds for #entomology #insects #museumcollections

[Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @ColSocBI]

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!

[Bees & Wasps of Ireland @BeesOfIreland]

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!

https://t.co/GcbKG5bheh

[dutto @TBeetles]

A nice September record for Leptura quadrifasciata on my local Nottinghamshire patch this afternoon. @ColSocBI

[National Museum of Ireland @NMIreland]

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.
https://t.co/yjoMZ3mR33

[dutto @TBeetles]

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

[Kelly Jowett @kelly_jowett]

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

[dutto @TBeetles]

@kitenet @ColSocBI @WeevilRS Snap. North east Derbyshire garden, beginning of July this year.