Amateur Entomologists' Society
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We’ve been sharing our passion for insects since 1935. As a UK charity, we’re here to make entomology exciting and accessible to all - especially amateur enthusiasts and young nature lovers. Our Bug Club helps kids discover the amazing world of minibeasts.
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🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
It’s the @amentsoc.bsky.social annual fair & I’m here with the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Lots of great fly talk & some great exhibits including these from some of the younger members of the AmEntSoc - aren’t they great?

#entomology
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
Most weevils have a snout, elbowed antennae & a heart-shaped foot—making them easy to recognise (with a few exceptions). 🪲

Learn more for free with @markgurn.bsky.social:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1491232379...

#Weevils 🧪
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Join my colleagues & I on Mon 28 July from 11am for a #bioblitz to celebrate the first year of the reopening of the @nhm-london.bsky.social Gardens! I'll be rummaging in the leaves for minibeasts! www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...
Join a Family-Friendly Nature Hunt at the Natural History Museum this July | Natural History Museum
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
Bdelloid rotifers have some of the strangest biology of all organisms on Earth.

Curious to find out more? Join Dr Chris Wilson from @ox.ac.uk for a FREE entoLIVE webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1369681186...

#Genetics #DNA 🌍 🧪

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amentsoc.bsky.social
🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
FREE entoLIVE webinar | Falling through the Cracks: iNaturalist Invertebrate Records in the UK | @josscarr.bsky.social | 16th Sept 2025

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1461082720...

#iNaturalist #Biodiversity 🧪 🌍

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royentsoc.bsky.social
Would you like to actively contribute to the governance and strategic direction of the Society?

We are seeking active and dynamic Members or Fellows to support the Royal Entomological Society in our committees.

Applications open - Deadline: 16 July 🔽

www.royensoc.co.uk/news/trustee...
Trustee Elections 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
Want to shape the future of the Royal Entomological Society? We have an exciting opportunity for trustees to join the RES team from September 2025. We are looking for candidates ready to actively cont...
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The @royentsoc.bsky.social book #Giveaway closes tomorrow!

To celebrate #InsectWeek and the release of our new book, 'How to be a Ladybird' with DK Books, we’re offering one winner their own copy 🐞

✨ Enter on Instagram before the competition closes on 7 July 🔽
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naturebureau.bsky.social
On the home run now for our #FliesofBritainandIreland book bit.ly/4dqQI8Z – Steven Falkhas now completed the text for the Anthomyiidae & we've started laying out the intro pages
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@amentsoc.bsky.social President address by Professor Ed Turner on the state of #insects globally, locally and the measures we can take to study and conserve them 🌳 🪲 @camzoology.bsky.social
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This Sat 21 June 10am - 5pm is our 90th 😱 Anniversary AGM & members day held at the University of Cambridge as part of Zoology Live Insectopia! We have talks, minibeast hunts 🪲🐜🪰🐌 & behind the scenes tours. All welcome, details here: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/zoolo...
ZOOLOGY LIVE! INSECTOPIA: THE FAMILY DAY | Museum of Zoology
Join us for our biggest annual Family Day of the year - Zoology Live! INSECTOPIA - and this year it's all about (you guessed it) insects!
www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk
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Great to see wasps getting some positivity!
uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
See the life of wasps as master architects, pest controllers and pollinators. Discover the delightfully relatable social goings-on inside our virtual nest at our upcoming exhibition from 25 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
A wasp nest on a curved brown leaf.
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pemberleybooks.bsky.social
Just landed: "Riverfly Handbook" by Craig Macadam, a must-have for anyone who loves dipping into streams and discovering the tiny wonders within. Mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies... it’s a whole world down there. Dive in!

#Entomology #FreshwaterLife #NewArrival @amentsoc.bsky.social
amentsoc.bsky.social
POSTPONED! Unfortunately our Young Entomologists' Day, originally for Sat 26 April has been postponed. A new date will be released as soon as we know it. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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Unable to visit #SISF2025 for Dr. Ben Clunie's Young Verrall Lecture with us & @royentsoc.bsky.social? No worries! It's now available on YouTube 🎉 Watch here: youtu.be/xGtsES0xmWI?... Discover the fascinating relationships between plants and insects in this talk for ages 7-11!
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Tomorrow! Join us at the Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair 🐞🕷️Sat 1st March, 10:30–4pm, Staffordshire University. Grab some freebies, hear the Young Verrall Lecture with Dr Ben Clunie, organised by us & @royentsoc.bsky.social, and cuddle a cockroach! #Entomology #BugLove #ScienceFair
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We’ve landed on Bluesky - just in time for our 90th anniversary! 🎉🦋 The Amateur Entomologists’ Society has shared its passion for insects since 1935, from butterflies to beetles - and even fabulous flies! 🦟 Follow us for news on our events, books, journals & more. 🐞🦗 #amentsoc #Entomology #BugClub
Yellow roundel with stylised black butterfly in centre with initials aes 90 Years. Text around the outside reads The Amateur Entomologists' Society 1935 - 2025.