My first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here!

doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

#BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology

Coming to a cinema near you...

#Inverts #Invertebrates #Entomemeology

When you convince your office to rear an Elephant Hawk Moth and experience the joy and beauty of metamorphosis...

But Amblyjoppa proteus has other, more sinister plans.

#Invertebrate #Invert #Parasitoid

This is why I have no money

Get your stigma out for the bees.

#Invertebrates #Inverts #Bees

My sweet child, where has the other half of your mouth gone?

#Invertebrates #Inverts #Insects #WeevilWednesday

Stop. Admire the bee fly. Look at how it flies with absolutely no grace whatsoever.

Observe how it unites bee and fly lovers everywhere without effort.

Where is it going? What has it seen? With no honey to make, it has a lot of free time.

#Invert #Invertebrate #Bee? #Fly #Insects

When a bunch of entomology students find a beetle.

It was probably terrified.

#RoyalEntomologicalSociety #RES

Utterly charismatic

Just another foodie influencer documenting their meal before turning the restaurant into a nursery. Classic.

#Invert #Invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #insect #weevil #beetle

Local harvestman discovers that having eight legs doesn't help carry the weight of perpetual misidentification by humans.

#bugs #macro #Inverts #Invertebrates #opilione

when you're pretending to mind your own business but you're actually watching all the drama unfold at the next table

#macro #macrophotography #insects #bugs

Why do we insist on destroying every inch of natural habitat we have to make these horrible, sprawling suburban housing schemes like the Americans? They are environmentally disastrous and anti-pedestrian. Why aren't we thinking more like this??

I mean... just look at the beetles I can make now. Need I say more?

I just completed @infohackit.bsky.social's 12-month design course, which is definitively one of the most valuable things I have done for my career. If you're an academic with even a slight interest in science communication, I would recommend it in a heartbeat.