Scott Gilmore
@scottgilmore.bsky.social
Elateridae beetle guy. 🇦🇺 in 🇨🇦. Beetle heavy naturalist but easily distracted by 🦜🍄🐚🍷🪰🦋🍺(and wishing for a Psocodea emoji). Employed to work on threatened freshwater 🐟🐚
Being stumped by a staphylinid is nothing new for me but this 2mm long intertidal beast appears to have a tarsal formula of 2-2-2! And now I am more confused. Any recognize it or have guesses? From coastal British Columbia.
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Being stumped by a staphylinid is nothing new for me but this 2mm long intertidal beast appears to have a tarsal formula of 2-2-2! And now I am more confused. Any recognize it or have guesses? From coastal British Columbia.
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JOB OPENING: Curator of Birds: Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
Curator of Birds
Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
JOB OPENING: Curator of Birds: Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
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🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
Today I sat in a river all day looking for and counting an endangered snail called a Shortface Lanx. A great team and despite a couple of hours of finding nothing we eventually had success. With two more days of surveys I’m hoping we continue to have success.
October 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Today I sat in a river all day looking for and counting an endangered snail called a Shortface Lanx. A great team and despite a couple of hours of finding nothing we eventually had success. With two more days of surveys I’m hoping we continue to have success.
Does anyone have access to The Canadian Entomologist? I'm looking for Mank EW (1939b) Scotochroa and a closely allied new genus Scotochroides, (Coleoptera, Melandryidae). The Canadian Entomologist 71: 181–183.
I have a Scotochroa from an unexpected location I want to know more about.
I have a Scotochroa from an unexpected location I want to know more about.
August 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does anyone have access to The Canadian Entomologist? I'm looking for Mank EW (1939b) Scotochroa and a closely allied new genus Scotochroides, (Coleoptera, Melandryidae). The Canadian Entomologist 71: 181–183.
I have a Scotochroa from an unexpected location I want to know more about.
I have a Scotochroa from an unexpected location I want to know more about.
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We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
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We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
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August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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A Sagebrush Sheep Moth (Hemileuca hera) on Mount Kobau in the Okanagan. What a great place to be for bugs!
#Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist
#Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist
August 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A Sagebrush Sheep Moth (Hemileuca hera) on Mount Kobau in the Okanagan. What a great place to be for bugs!
#Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist
#Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist
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Some sleeping bees on a foggy morning at the beach. Coelioxys up top and Ammophila below them.
#Hymenoptera #Macrophotography #Macro
#Hymenoptera #Macrophotography #Macro
July 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Some sleeping bees on a foggy morning at the beach. Coelioxys up top and Ammophila below them.
#Hymenoptera #Macrophotography #Macro
#Hymenoptera #Macrophotography #Macro
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I just found Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus in my backyard. Oh so small!
July 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I just found Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus in my backyard. Oh so small!
The predator becomes the prey. Hudsonian Whiteface captured by a Great Sundew.
July 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The predator becomes the prey. Hudsonian Whiteface captured by a Great Sundew.
I was shocked when I opened my moth trap this morning as I did not know what this was. Turns out the Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor) was introduced to Vancouver. This is the first record I can find of it on Vancouver Island.
July 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I was shocked when I opened my moth trap this morning as I did not know what this was. Turns out the Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor) was introduced to Vancouver. This is the first record I can find of it on Vancouver Island.
Does anyone have a pdf of Beal RS Jr. (1967) A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma (Coleoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 281–312.
June 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Does anyone have a pdf of Beal RS Jr. (1967) A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma (Coleoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 281–312.
A great radio interview with Eric Larson on the newly named Okanagan Crayfish
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
The origin story of the Okanagan Crayfish; and why scientists are worried about its future
Eric Larson is the co-author of a new study that found a new species of Crayfish in Okanagan Lake. He warns that the new species is already at risk. He's an associate professor in the Department of Na...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A great radio interview with Eric Larson on the newly named Okanagan Crayfish
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Some of the Nivicolous slime moulds my son and I found today.
June 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Some of the Nivicolous slime moulds my son and I found today.
Cleaning my office and found out I have the first three printings of @robcannings.bsky.social fantastic Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon. I remember picking up a spare copy… but I clearly did that twice!
May 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cleaning my office and found out I have the first three printings of @robcannings.bsky.social fantastic Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon. I remember picking up a spare copy… but I clearly did that twice!
I had a rather horrendous travel day yesterday. 3:30am wake up for an early fight expecting to be home before lunch. Flight cancelled just before boarding. New itinerary put us home 12 hours later than expected! All for a 14 minute flight to the island. We got to Vancouver, pulled out bags and 1/3
May 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I had a rather horrendous travel day yesterday. 3:30am wake up for an early fight expecting to be home before lunch. Flight cancelled just before boarding. New itinerary put us home 12 hours later than expected! All for a 14 minute flight to the island. We got to Vancouver, pulled out bags and 1/3
Checking in to a flight at Nanaimo Airport in British Columbia I was pleased to see this display on pollinators. I just had to share it.
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Checking in to a flight at Nanaimo Airport in British Columbia I was pleased to see this display on pollinators. I just had to share it.
A successful nivicolus slimemold hunt with my son today and yesterday. Once you get your eye in these are everywhere as the snow retreats.
May 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A successful nivicolus slimemold hunt with my son today and yesterday. Once you get your eye in these are everywhere as the snow retreats.
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Oh, how I wish someone would rear this unknown Agromyza species on ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor). Now is the time to look for larvae. You can find them anywhere from British Columbia to New Mexico. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Genus Agromyza
Agromyza from Capital Regional District, BC, Canada on April 26, 2025 at 01:29 PM by Rebecca Reader-Lee
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May 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Oh, how I wish someone would rear this unknown Agromyza species on ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor). Now is the time to look for larvae. You can find them anywhere from British Columbia to New Mexico. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
I set up my UV light last night for the first time this year and was rewarded by two Sphinx (Smerinthus ophthalmica) and one Pheosia californica.
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I set up my UV light last night for the first time this year and was rewarded by two Sphinx (Smerinthus ophthalmica) and one Pheosia californica.
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Seeking contributions for the upcoming issue of the Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (biologicalsurvey.ca/publications...). e.g.s include articles on aspects of Canada's biodiversity, collecting trips, photos, announcements, etc. Please send items to giberson(at)upei(dot)ca by 19 May
Newsletters – Biological Survey of Canada
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April 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Seeking contributions for the upcoming issue of the Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (biologicalsurvey.ca/publications...). e.g.s include articles on aspects of Canada's biodiversity, collecting trips, photos, announcements, etc. Please send items to giberson(at)upei(dot)ca by 19 May