Zoë Simmons
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Zoë Simmons
@pselaphacus.bsky.social
Head of Life Collections @ OUMNH
Collections Manager of Arachnida
President of BENHS 2024-25

Entomologist, Arachnologist, Natural Historian, Museum and Collections Nerd
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It's Wednesday afternoon and it's time for a mid week reward. Presenting the shiny blue wasp that you didn't know you needed in your life #hymenoptera #museumcollections
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Delighted to be hosting @colsocbi.bsky.social today at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for a day of talks and visits to the collections. Lovely to see so many keen beetle people, with old faces and new in the audience #coleopteristsday2025
February 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This feels like a Chrysis moment #hymenoptera #museum #collections
February 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Every year in January BENHS (@britentsoc.bsky.social) and LNHS jointly host the Brad Ashby Memorial Lecture.

In case you missed this years fabulous talk on electrostatic ecology by @samjakeengland.bsky.social, I am pleased to report that it can be found here youtu.be/e3R5T1jVcfU?...
February 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I don't have anything more than a glancing knowledge of hymenoptera, but I sure do appreciate how beautiful they are #hymenoptera #bee #museum #collection #entomology
January 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There are many bees that are stripy. This one caught my eye for rocking the high contrast spots #hymenoptera #museum #collection
January 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our fantastic NERC DTP student finished up yesterday and I got the chance to see some of the collections that they've been working on. In a highly scientific fashion I picked out all my favorites based on objective parameters such as: bling, fluffiness, pattern & cuteness.... #hymenoptera #museum
January 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
January 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Unsolicited insect picture for your feed
January 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, I have mostly been thinking about beetles #coleoptera
January 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The light was beautiful in the heavy frost yesterday. Took a walk around the reservoir as the sun was setting. Fog was so thick that if it weren't for the birds, you wouldn't have known where the sky stopped and the water began
January 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Been diary planning this morning, and wowsers it's going to be a busy year! Lots of projects at the museum and BENHS events to look forward to. Here goes it with 2025 then!
January 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Am feeling under immense pressure to make my first post on a new platform really cool, but that would be so out of character that I just don't think there's anyway it can happen. Please be distracted by this nice #fungus
January 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM