Amo Spooner

Collections Manager 🪲🦥🦎🐡🐸 at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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[Dan Challender @DanChallender]

Fun aft @morethanadodo w. @EntoAmo checking labelling + identification of #pangolins. Some potentially v interesting findings too - more in due course! @projetmecistops @PangolinSG @ICCS_updates @IWTnet @JasonIsotopes @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford @oxmartinschool

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Love an enquiry that leads to #weevilwednesday fun times! Some incredible finds with @J_E_Hogan 🤩

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Some cool finds in Tyneham Village, Dorset at the weekend. Definitely recommend a visit for the history as well as the insects 😄

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

It's Wallace symposium day in collaboration with Maison Française d’Oxford! Great talk by @Pselaphacus on our Wallace insect specimens, explaining the routes they came to us! 🐞🦋🐝🦟🦗

[Levon Biss @LevonBissPhoto]

The Extinct & Endangered book is out today. A collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, the project raises awareness of insect decline and biodiversity loss.

#insectdecline #biodiversityloss #biodiversity #insects #extinction #climatechange #habitatloss

[DreamWorks Dragons: Rise of Berk @RiseOfBerk]

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[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Here's a before, during, and after of a spider from the education handling collection getting some much needed TLC 🕷😀

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

HUGE thank you to @elin_cunningham for bringing these incredible Achrioptera manga stick insects for us @morethanadodo to oooh and ahhh over 🤩

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

@eileen_westwig Looks like an Angle Shades moth to me... but you know I love my beetles more, so put this down to an educated guess 😁

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Nine years ago (according to the Post-it on the cabinet) I typed the labels for these historic @morethanadodo Elateridae, and this week I put them on the specimens! Clearly got distracted 😄 Think they look much better now though, so worth the wait!

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

@AshWhiffin @ColeopSoc Curated some of its friends yesterday 🤩😄

[Natural Sciences NMS @NatSciNMS]

🚨 Calling all ENTOMOLOGISTS 🚨

We have a VERY EXCITING job vacancy for Assistant Curator of Entomology - Want to help look after our 2,000,000+ insect specimens and play an integral role in making our collection accessible to researchers?
Apply here 👉 https://t.co/ugXSnsGkWx

[Chris Jarvis @BaculumBoy]

Ellie, our wonderful Visitor Services Manager, was greeted by some particularly special international visitors this morning and snapped this from our nestcam @morethanadodo

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Fantastic talk by @AshWhiffin sharing her love for carrion beetles. Top tip, wear gloves when digging around in corpses! @_NFBR @morethanadodo

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Still going strong five months later 🥰

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A new stunning dead leaf mantis can be seen on the entomology gallery @morethanadodo thanks to @elin_cunningham 😊

[Chris Jarvis @BaculumBoy]

Some of the specimens we’ll be using today to talk about biodiversity past,present and future in our art/science cyanotype workshop @morethanadodo including a baby mammoth milk molar!!!

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

Beautiful array of flowers and insects seen on a visit to Bolsover Castle today 😌

[Amo Spooner @EntoAmo]

IPM checking our @morethanadodo historic coleoptera collections this afternoon led to finding these wonderful weevils! #weevilwednesday

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@Lionesses Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson, Millie Bright, Ellen White

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@Pselaphacus giving her talk on our @morethanadodo 'HOPE for the Future' project funded by @HeritageFundUK at the @BritEntSoc 150th Anniversary meeting. Happy entomologist times! Well done 👏

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

The afternoon session starts off with @Pselaphacus celebrating the work of #TeamEntomology and the #HopefortheFuture project - the rehousing/documenting/outreach of the British insect collection at @morethanadodo

#benhs150 @BritEntSoc