Beulah Garner
@beetlequeen.bsky.social
Entomologist. Curator of Polyneoptera at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy in the Vogler lab https://www.site100.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
Yes, yes you can find beetles in the winter in the UK! Communing with the Black Snail beetle up a very wet and windy Fell in the Lakes. Phosphuga atrata on Great Mell Fell. 🪲
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yes, yes you can find beetles in the winter in the UK! Communing with the Black Snail beetle up a very wet and windy Fell in the Lakes. Phosphuga atrata on Great Mell Fell. 🪲
When your Thai bestie @pun158 over on X, combines two of your favourite things: entomology themed stationary and beetle science! New species of stag beetle to Thailand: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When your Thai bestie @pun158 over on X, combines two of your favourite things: entomology themed stationary and beetle science! New species of stag beetle to Thailand: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
September 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
Tropical rainforests in the SW Pacifics. Dr Novotný took us on an epic adventure featuring Terry Erwin! On the arms race between plants and insects in the tropics, and the army of people it takes at a local scale to provide the raw data for these interactional insights over decades. #Ento25
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Tropical rainforests in the SW Pacifics. Dr Novotný took us on an epic adventure featuring Terry Erwin! On the arms race between plants and insects in the tropics, and the army of people it takes at a local scale to provide the raw data for these interactional insights over decades. #Ento25
Natural history museum San Jose, Costa Rica delivered ALL the insects. So great to see so much of Costa Rica’s diversity on display 🪲 🦋 #CostaRicaBiodiversity
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Natural history museum San Jose, Costa Rica delivered ALL the insects. So great to see so much of Costa Rica’s diversity on display 🪲 🦋 #CostaRicaBiodiversity
I was only trying to make friends but don’t mess with the Bess! Bess beetles (Passalidae) are of the few beetles that care for their young and live communally. This encounter in the mid-elevation tropical forest of Costa Rica.
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was only trying to make friends but don’t mess with the Bess! Bess beetles (Passalidae) are of the few beetles that care for their young and live communally. This encounter in the mid-elevation tropical forest of Costa Rica.
Some wet weather collecting at Pocosol Camp, Costa Rica. Seamlessly combining Katydid and beetle hunting 🌳 🪲 🦗
July 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Some wet weather collecting at Pocosol Camp, Costa Rica. Seamlessly combining Katydid and beetle hunting 🌳 🪲 🦗
Carcinophora americana being a good mama. Brood care in Dermaptera is cool cool cool! 🖤 what a privilege to view this behaviour close up in Costa Rica 🌳
July 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Carcinophora americana being a good mama. Brood care in Dermaptera is cool cool cool! 🖤 what a privilege to view this behaviour close up in Costa Rica 🌳
Night night from the night light
July 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Night night from the night light
Good to see a diversity of insects at the light trap here in Costa Rica. Still, it’s obvious the decline in abundance. #insectdiversity
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good to see a diversity of insects at the light trap here in Costa Rica. Still, it’s obvious the decline in abundance. #insectdiversity
Having an intense, rewarding and a little bit damp time learning everything about the singing crickets from the best Orthopterogists in the world! 🌎 🦗
July 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Having an intense, rewarding and a little bit damp time learning everything about the singing crickets from the best Orthopterogists in the world! 🌎 🦗
Hello from me and some beetle friends here in the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica.
June 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hello from me and some beetle friends here in the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica.
Obligatory curator photo at good old Terminal 3! 🪰 ✈️ 🦗
June 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Obligatory curator photo at good old Terminal 3! 🪰 ✈️ 🦗
By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social
just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’
just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social
just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’
just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’
@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
June 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@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
Nail art beautifully provided by the fourteen-spot ladybird 💛
June 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Nail art beautifully provided by the fourteen-spot ladybird 💛
The day begins at #Insectopia on this sunny day. Hoping to meet lots of #insects 🐞 ☀️ 👋 from the team @amentsoc.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The day begins at #Insectopia on this sunny day. Hoping to meet lots of #insects 🐞 ☀️ 👋 from the team @amentsoc.bsky.social
Had a lovely day learning about palaeoecology of #WickenFen and past Mesolithic faunas, some still present today! Beetle elytra in abundance ☀️ 🪲
June 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Had a lovely day learning about palaeoecology of #WickenFen and past Mesolithic faunas, some still present today! Beetle elytra in abundance ☀️ 🪲
Celebrated #InternationalWomensDay with my @NHM_London tribe thanks to The IDEA Group - Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. Action. Special thanks to my fellow entomologist @DrButterflyH for pioneering the cause. Divided we stand, united we rise 🙌🏻
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Celebrated #InternationalWomensDay with my @NHM_London tribe thanks to The IDEA Group - Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. Action. Special thanks to my fellow entomologist @DrButterflyH for pioneering the cause. Divided we stand, united we rise 🙌🏻
Coleopterist’s Day sixth great speaker is Steve Docker of @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social AIDGAP natural history pubs on new ideas for identifying 🪲. New keys, utilising old images from Joy’s A Practical Handbook of British Beetles. ‘Distinctive Terrestrial Beetles’ coming soon! 🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Coleopterist’s Day sixth great speaker is Steve Docker of @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social AIDGAP natural history pubs on new ideas for identifying 🪲. New keys, utilising old images from Joy’s A Practical Handbook of British Beetles. ‘Distinctive Terrestrial Beetles’ coming soon! 🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social
Coleopterist’s day fifth great speaker is Charles Barker @colsocbi.bsky.social social media whizz, on how does the declining dung beetle population affect mung bean growth! #scarabaeinae 💩 🪲
February 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Coleopterist’s day fifth great speaker is Charles Barker @colsocbi.bsky.social social media whizz, on how does the declining dung beetle population affect mung bean growth! #scarabaeinae 💩 🪲
Coleopterist’s Day @colsocbi.bsky.social fourth inspirational speaker is @kitenet.bsky.social on why record #beetles Good to be reminded for ‘physical and spiritual wellbeing’ Here’s a guide on how to use iRecord tinyurl.com/2c65b7sy
February 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Coleopterist’s Day @colsocbi.bsky.social fourth inspirational speaker is @kitenet.bsky.social on why record #beetles Good to be reminded for ‘physical and spiritual wellbeing’ Here’s a guide on how to use iRecord tinyurl.com/2c65b7sy
Coleopterist’s Day third speaker is Kevin Rowley on using iRecord for water beetle records @nfbr.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social Interesting insights into how to encourage recorders coleoptera.org.uk/aquatic/home
February 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Coleopterist’s Day third speaker is Kevin Rowley on using iRecord for water beetle records @nfbr.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social Interesting insights into how to encourage recorders coleoptera.org.uk/aquatic/home
Coleopterists’s day second speaker is Louise Garcia on recording Ireland’s beetles. And the perplexing case of Melolontha melolontha 🪲 records.biodiversityireland.ie/stats/record... @colsocbi.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Coleopterists’s day second speaker is Louise Garcia on recording Ireland’s beetles. And the perplexing case of Melolontha melolontha 🪲 records.biodiversityireland.ie/stats/record... @colsocbi.bsky.social
Coleopterist’s day begins with an excellent presentation by @ukladybirds.bsky.social on 61 years of the Biological Records Centre. Using biological records for abundance trends. And no talk could go by without mention of ladybirds 🐞 ☀️ @colsocbi.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Coleopterist’s day begins with an excellent presentation by @ukladybirds.bsky.social on 61 years of the Biological Records Centre. Using biological records for abundance trends. And no talk could go by without mention of ladybirds 🐞 ☀️ @colsocbi.bsky.social