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The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland
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A society promoting, researching and recording the 4,000+ beetle species on Britain and Ireland. 🪲 Events, field meetings and networking...🪲🪲
Website: https://www.colsoc.org/
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The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @colsocbi.bsky.social · Jan 14
Roll up roll up, join us at @morethanadodo.bsky.social on February 22, 2025 from 10:00 ! We’re bringing together a mount-Rushmore level crossover of beetle experts, enthusiasts and curious minds for a day of engaging talks + tours and discussions!🐞 #insects, #entomology, #bugs,🌍
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Speakers, collection tours (YOU can meet the Lucanus cervus on the last image) and more to be revealed?🐞... See the programme for Coleopterists Day on Sat Feb 22! Scuttle over to Oxford Natural History museum @morethanadodo.bsky.social for some beetle fun! #science #nature #entomology #conservation
February 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A beautiful Carabus granulatus I found yesterday in North Dorset. First time I've found this species 😀

#carabidae #coleoptera #macrophotography #macro #ukwildlife
February 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New weevil from #indonesia just snuck in:

Exophthalmida elytrodon

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/9A690710-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #ExophthalmidaElytrodon

#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #coleoptera #weevils
February 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Amazing work, so pleased to support the @biologicalrecording.co.uk.

Want to learn more? Check out and share their fantastic webinars and help enrich the world with #InsectScience 🪲

Register for upcoming #EntoLIVE events:
biologicalrecording.co.uk/entolive/

#entomology #invertebrates #SciComms
biologicalrecording.co.uk Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · Feb 1
Over 60 webinars in, which entoLIVEs have proven most popular? It seems that 🐝subjects attract the most live attendees, but less popular groups do better in the long-run. Interesting.

#entomology #invertebrates #SciComms

Catch up on previous webinars here: biologicalrecording.co.uk/category/ent...
February 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A wonder of macro is spotting things that would be missed with the naked eye. This picture of two Cryptocephalus aureolus? beetles at Cerne Abbas revealed a stowaway. It's an Oil Beetle larva. Well worth looking at their fascinating life cycle!
#coleoptera @colsocbi.bsky.social #macrophotography
February 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Neither a beetle of Britain or Ireland, still amazing (Dynastes tityus)
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A really cool Hercules beetle I found in the garden ❤️🌿🍄 #entomology #insects #beetle #curio #naturesky #nature #bug #goblincore #herculesbeetle #wildlifephotography
A female Hercules Beetle among the dried leaves. Her shell is a light green with spots of black. A rare sight in my garden.
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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If you have an interest in natural history within the county of Norfolk then do check out the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society website norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/then and follow them on Bluesky 😉
February 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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It’s #TenebTuesday! Another “pancaked” #Adelostomini —Stips sp.—photographed at night near Gobabeb Namib Research Institute. The adult beetles spend the days buried in the sand, emerging at night to forage on the dunes. #Coleoptera #Tenebrionidae
A flattened/circular, dark brown beetle, with three raised ridges on its elytra, sitting on orange sand A flattened/circular, dark brown beetle, with three raised ridges on its elytra, burrowing into orange sand A ventral view of a flattened/circular, dark brown beetle with legs held tightly against its body
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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My first of the year - 7 Spot Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata.

#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #Ladybirds
#macrophotography #macro #OMSystem #OM5 #HeliconFocus #FocusStacking
My first of the year - 7 Spot Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata.
January 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
colsocbi.bsky.social
Roll up roll up, join us at @morethanadodo.bsky.social on February 22, 2025 from 10:00 ! We’re bringing together a mount-Rushmore level crossover of beetle experts, enthusiasts and curious minds for a day of engaging talks + tours and discussions!🐞 #insects, #entomology, #bugs,🌍
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We are the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland!🐞, Our aim is to further beetle research, standardise and promote recording, and to develop and encourage public awareness and conservation of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands.

Check us out: www.colsoc.org
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ColSoc is the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland, dedicated to the study of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands.
www.colsoc.org
January 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM