Toby Turner

Biological Sciences BSc (Hons) graduate, Amateur Entomologist, keen interest in Coprophagous Scarabaeidae

[Larus (Ven) ➡️ the Hadopelagic Zone 🍉 @NeonTetraploid]

Noah frantically flipping through dichotomous keys to make sure he gets a male and female of every single micromoth, parasitoid wasp, lungless salamander, and Zosterops white-eye species onto the ark before it starts raining

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

We often say humans are destroying species before they're even discovered! Well, it seems the undiscovered species are even more vulnerable than the known ones! Nice write up by Emma Caton . @NHM_Science @NHM_London https://t.co/xRy1gxEa72

[Andrew Whitehouse 〓〓 @AndWhitehouse]

Our 2023 #BugsMatter survey results are out today, and the news is alarming. The data indicates a 78% fall in the abundance of flying insects in the UK since 2004. 🧵

[REASSEMBLY Research Unit reassemblynet.bsky.social @ReassemblyNet]

Dung-beetle networks: 🐒🐈Mammal DNA in 🪲beetle gut 💩reveal that nocurnal 🌜#dung #beetles use #jaguar and #puma dung, diurnal 🌞species follow the #monkeys. New paper by @karenpedersen5 & @BeerenVon in @thePeerJ
https://t.co/JABm5Bh3Me

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

In the UK we contrast ‘open’ vs wooded habitats, and argue over which to have

But how about promoting savanna-type ecosystems - with scattered shrubs & trees among grassland

[Thilina Hettiarachchi (@bugsnapz) @ThilinaHA]

Have you ever seen a grasshopper eating a tiger beetle?

#manitoba #canada #nature #bugs #arthropods

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

Good to be back in the ⁦@NHM_London⁩ Attenborough Studio for ⁦@NatureLive⁩ after what seems like a long gap. Fabulous audience with lots of enthusiastic kids today. Talking about beetles, obviously

[Sally-Ann Spence FRES FLS @SallyAnn_Spence]

A good abundance of dung beetles - now you need to increase the species diversity. You’re on the right path @cornishgrill 👍

[Sally-Ann Spence FRES FLS @SallyAnn_Spence]

Yes! 👍

[Keep Your Cat Inside @KeepCatsInside]

Do you purport to care about #conservation? Keep your damn cats indoors and minimize their threat to #birds, #mammals, & lizards.

#cats that are allowed to roam outside, feral or otherwise, are a major threat to our #wildlife and #biodiversity.

[Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo]

He’s a 10 but he’s extinct

[Toby Turner @tobyaturner]

@Coleopterist Menagerie’s no longer have to be organic in today’s world!😂

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

Christmas can be a hot forge of speciation - some real ‘island of dr Moreau’ creatures for sale here - because nothing says Christmas like Santa’s head or reindeer horns on a duck, or apparently an angel duck.