Insect Investigators

We were awarded the #EurekaPrizes for citizen science! Congratulations to all our project team, particularly our amazing school teachers and students! @eurekaprizes

Insect Investigators is a finalist in the @eurekaprizes category for Innovation in Citizen Science! We are proud be able to share the contributions our teachers, students and project team have made to documenting insect biodiversity in Australia 🐝🧬 #eurekaprizes

👏 @InsectInvestig8 and Find Our Fungi! are finalists in the Citizen Science Awards 2023! Good luck to our members @ErinnFJ and @jasmin_packer and roll on Friday night when the winner is announced! Read more! ⤵️ blogs.adelaide.edu.au/environment/20… @UofA_SET @UniofAdelaide @InspiringSA

The students came up with some really creative name suggestions! We’ll now work together to narrow down to a short-list, check the Latin grammar and nomenclature rules, and ask the students to choose their favourite name for our exciting new bee fly! #taxonomy #entomology

Today @ErinnFJ (@UofA_SET) & Christine Lambkin (@qldmuseum) joined the @wagouldleague team who were visiting North Tom Price Primary in WA, to work with the students to choose the name of a new species of fly that they collected specimens of! #TaxonomistAppreciationDay

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay to our wonderful taxonomists! There were 626 new species described last year 🤩 but we’ve still got a long way to go to document the remainder of Australia’s #biodiversity - we need taxonomists more than ever! 🔬 🧬 smh.com.au/national/haird…

Today @MollieRsb, @Howe_Andy, & @ErinnFJ ran the first species naming workshop for @InsectInvestig8 2022-23! Mollie helped Beerwah HS students learn about the new species of wasp they collected and brainstorm some name ideas! #citizenscience @SAMuseum @UofA_SET @usceduau

For schools in QLD: @WSFBrisbane is on in March and we are doing a show for both primary and high school students! #wsfb2023 (primary session linked below). Come learn about bugs with us! worldsciencefestival.com.au/event-program/…

Students from Loxton North School are ‘buzzing’ with excitement over their @InsectInvestig8 project results! The students have helped to successfully recorded thousands of new insects as part of the @SAMuseum citizen science project. More info: bit.ly/3F4tAPT

It’s time to take part in the Australian Pollinator Count. If you’re unsure where to start, check out the Learner Guide for information on identifying pollinators. australianpollinatorweek.org.au/count/quiz/ #OzPollinatorWeek #bees #pollinators

Today the SA team visited Streaky Bay Area School to share some results. We had time to do a bit of collecting and found this cool pseudoscorpion! Check out what all the schools found during the program at insectinvestigators.com.au/results/ @SAMuseum @UofA_SET @MRLandscapeSA #CitizenScience

It has been so much fun working with the Australian school program, Insect Investigators @InsectInvestig8 and we're excited to see the results! Insect DNA barcoding results delight UniSC entomologist usc.edu.au/about/unisc-ne… via @usceduau #IluminateBiodiversity

The SA insect investigators team had the privilege to visit Yalata Aṉangu school this morning to share some results and catch some bugs with the students. You can see the insects Yalata students caught during the project at insectinvestigators.com.au/results/ #entomology #CitizenScience

Our preliminary DNA barcoding results are available for schools to investigate today! You can now explore all of the different insects that we DNA barcoded for each school (ids still being checked): insectinvestigators.com.au/results/ #entomology #citizenscience #biodiversity

Get ready everyone, #OzPollinatorWeek starts Saturday. @WheenBee #bees #pollinators

The South Australian Insect Investigators @SAMuseum team is excited to visit schools this term (as we weren’t able to at the start of the program). This week Alice @MRLandscapeSA and Erinn @UofA_SET visited Rendelsham PS and Kingston Community School! #entomology #CitizenScience

@UniofAdelaide @SAMuseum @qldmuseum @wamuseum @usceduau @wagouldleague @SAScience @LandcareSA Small-bodied insects on the other hand, had the DNA extraction process applied to the whole specimen at @CBG_UofG! This means that all of the tiny wasps and flies are stored in alcohol, rather than being pinned like the larger critters! #Research #Entomology #CitizenScience

Specimen update! All of your hard work collecting #insects is paying off, as all of the large-bodied insects have now been pinned and are ready to be inspected by our team of taxonomists! Every one has had a leg or other small fragment removed for #DNA extraction! #Science

Your Insect Investigators specimens have arrived in Canada and are being processed by the team at @CBG_UofG! Read all about it in our latest news update: insectinvestigators.com.au/your-insects-h… #Science #CitizenScience #Research #Entomology #Schools #Education #Australia

Today @InsectInvestig8 with @SAMuseum and @MRLandscapeSA is at #WorldEnvironmentDay celebration at @BotGardensSA - we can’t wait for the schools to arrive! #entomology #CitizenScience #schools