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Fun aft @morethanadodo w. @EntoAmo checking labelling + identification of #pangolins. Some potentially v interesting findings too - more in due course! @projetmecistops @PangolinSG @ICCS_updates @IWTnet @JasonIsotopes @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford @oxmartinschool

Love an enquiry that leads to #weevilwednesday fun times! Some incredible finds with @J_E_Hogan 🤩

Some cool finds in Tyneham Village, Dorset at the weekend. Definitely recommend a visit for the history as well as the insects 😄

It's Wallace symposium day in collaboration with Maison Française d’Oxford! Great talk by @Pselaphacus on our Wallace insect specimens, explaining the routes they came to us! 🐞🦋🐝🦟🦗

The Extinct & Endangered book is out today. A collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, the project raises awareness of insect decline and biodiversity loss. #insectdecline #biodiversityloss #biodiversity #insects #extinction #climatechange #habitatloss

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Here's a before, during, and after of a spider from the education handling collection getting some much needed TLC 🕷😀

HUGE thank you to @elin_cunningham for bringing these incredible Achrioptera manga stick insects for us @morethanadodo to oooh and ahhh over 🤩

@eileen_westwig Looks like an Angle Shades moth to me... but you know I love my beetles more, so put this down to an educated guess 😁

Found this cool looking moth today in Scotland. Any of my #entomology friends like the amazing @EntoAmo can perhaps help ID it?

Nine years ago (according to the Post-it on the cabinet) I typed the labels for these historic @morethanadodo Elateridae, and this week I put them on the specimens! Clearly got distracted 😄 Think they look much better now though, so worth the wait!

@AshWhiffin @ColeopSoc Curated some of its friends yesterday 🤩😄

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Ellie, our wonderful Visitor Services Manager, was greeted by some particularly special international visitors this morning and snapped this from our nestcam @morethanadodo

Fantastic talk by @AshWhiffin sharing her love for carrion beetles. Top tip, wear gloves when digging around in corpses! @_NFBR @morethanadodo

Still going strong five months later 🥰

A new stunning dead leaf mantis can be seen on the entomology gallery @morethanadodo thanks to @elin_cunningham 😊

Some of the specimens we’ll be using today to talk about biodiversity past,present and future in our art/science cyanotype workshop @morethanadodo including a baby mammoth milk molar!!!

Beautiful array of flowers and insects seen on a visit to Bolsover Castle today 😌

IPM checking our @morethanadodo historic coleoptera collections this afternoon led to finding these wonderful weevils! #weevilwednesday

@Lionesses Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson, Millie Bright, Ellen White

Sarina will name her squad for April camp today at 3.30pm! 🙌 Who do you want to see called up?

@Pselaphacus giving her talk on our @morethanadodo 'HOPE for the Future' project funded by @HeritageFundUK at the @BritEntSoc 150th Anniversary meeting. Happy entomologist times! Well done 👏