EntomologyTranslator

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[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

If you want a label translated please *DM* us with a picture of the label, taxonomic details, and what you need at @EntoTranslator !

[B. E. Boudinot @BoudAnt1]

Need help with specimen labels? There is a dedicated profile for that! 🤯🤩 My apologies to future generations for my highly variable and often* illegible handwriting. (*I have been told, with some frequency.)

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

😲 nice labels though

[Oliver Keller Ph.D. @dr_firefly]

#CollectionCuriosities. Some plastics are melted by PDB, like this foam which used to cover the bottom of the specimen shipping box. Thankfully no specimens were harmed. #FSCA

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Let’s help @Formicadri! this 🏷 associated w/ ant spcmns (Polyrhachis) in the phyletisches museum Jena, collected by J. Harms in 1929. Where is the location- could it say "fusa" (is this a place?)? This sample might be from SE Asia as it was in a container w/ vials from Indonesia

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Let’s help @Formicadri! this 🏷 associated w/ ant spcmns (Polyrhachis) in the phyletisches museum Jena, collected by J. Harms in 1929. Where is the location- could it say "fusa" (is this a place?)? This sample might be from SE Asia as it was in a container w/ vials from Indonesia

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can we help Max out?

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

These insects all came out of the wood sent 15 —- 18– : anyone have any inspiration of the month or year?

[Oliver Keller Ph.D. @dr_firefly]

@EntoTranslator Hey ento twitter. Quick question: are Lao-Kay, Lào Cai, and Tonkin all in the same province in Vietnam? No picture just different names in some taxonomic literature for the same species.

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

@ymilesz @wizentrop I would think it is a location ending in rief

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can someone help our dear friend @knudson_h figure out to where this label refers?

[Alexander H. Knudson, Ph.D. @knudson_h]

@EntoTranslator I can read this label, but don't know what it means😅 it's from a #Tingidae specimen in the USNM. I suppose #SouthAmerica somewhere.

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can anyone help Tommy?

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can anyone help our buddy @MAndrewJohnston? Who was this insect collector in Riverside, CA? 🐜

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

@DryopoidDarling 😱😱😱

[Crystal Maier @DryopoidDarling]

Hey @EntoTranslator You'll be hearing a lot from me soon, we're cleaning some of the label "dregs" with some fun handwriting. This one might be from Asia and the first line is the species name, Polycaena timur.

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Lets help James.

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Howdy Folx! Any ideas for our @DryopoidDarling? 🤔

[Crystal Maier @DryopoidDarling]

@EntoTranslator any ideas for this label from the Entomology Collection at @MCZHarvard?

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

@OliviaBernauer @lessrof2weevils 😎

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can we help James? 🙏🏽

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Hey all! Let’s help @rachl_hawk solve this mystery label! It belongs to a Satyrus ferula ferula specimen, but she can't figure out the third word. It says "France Savoie / [illegible] 20.7.25"

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Thanks for the shot out @tuyamagu! 🐞

[茶 @tuyamagu]

@_x_hibagon_x_ そういえば既にご存知かもしれませんが、ラベル解読で困った際にはこちらのアカウント @EntoTranslator に相談すると、集合知が助けてくださるかもしれません...!!

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

Anyone want to guess this? Looks like 'Brooth Wood' but I can't find any such place. South be in Southern England. From Stenurella nigra (Cerambycidae) from A A Allen's collection

[EntomologyTranslator @EntoTranslator]

Can we help @rdlp18 with the locality on this label? 🤔

[Robin @rdlp18]

@EntoTranslator This label maybe German/Austrian. Could you please help with the locality?