AES Entomology

We're super excited to unveil our new website: americanentomologicalsociety.org Click here to renew your membership, learn about volunteer opportunities, subscribe to our journals, check our upcoming meetings, learn about our prestigious Calvert Award for young entomologists, and more!

A new year calls for some new changes! We are excited to announce we are retiring this account and moving to another social network (how could we resist that blue butterfly logo?). You can find us there under the same name. Thanks for all the great interactions we've had here!

Female Garden Spider - Araneus diadematus. In case you're wondering, the little hook-like thing is the female epigyne; all explained here in Wiki! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigyne

Took a little break after BP2024. But I'm back to show you these mites (I think) that I found on one of my bumbles collected for a pesticide analysis. Yuck.

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A wealth of taxonomic, temporal and biogeographic data are held within museum collections. Large scale digitisation reveals for the first time, the scientific utility of a subfamily of Coleoptera held at #NHM @NHM_Digitise frontiersin.org/journals/ecolo…

@EntoStudents I'm going to guess initials "L.d."!

#Bugriddle 13 I hitchhiked to USA in 2014, causing quite a fuss,  On apples and grapes, I create much loss.  With wings of red and spots so bright,  Can you guess my name, hidden in plain sight?

Join the @EB_Entsoc for the 3rd annual EntoQuest event. This year's event at Kean University in New Jersey will feature a fun murder mystery to solve with forensic #entomology techniques!

TODAY: See you at 7pm EDT for our membership meeting (free & open to the public). Hybrid meeting in person at @AcadNatSci and on Zoom (DM for link to attend). We will recognize the 2024 Calvert Award winners and learn about bee monitoring from Dr. @NashTurley. 📸: N. Turley

🏆CONGRATULATIONS to the 2024 recipients of the Calvert Award for young entomologists! 🏆 1st: Matthew Lo 2nd: Olivia Melazzo 3rd: Luke Hauck Honorable Mentions: Anthony Wurz, Nicholas Davidson Our winners will be honored at tomorrow's meeting at the @AcadNatSci (and on Zoom)!

REMINDER: Wed., April 24th is our membership meeting (free & open to the public)! We will honor recipients of the Calvert Award for young entomologists, and hear a guest lecture from Dr. @NashTurley on "Bee monitoring in Pennsylvania by community scientists." DM for Zoom link!

Join us 4/24, 7pm EDT for a guest lecture from @NashTurley. Learn how Dr. Turley's team trained community scientists to sample bees, and the pros & cons of photo-based biodiversity monitoring compared to natural history collections. Hybrid meeting; DM for Zoom link! 📸: N. Turley

Join us for our hybrid meeting on Wed., April 24, 7pm EDT at the @AcadNatSci or on Zoom! We will enjoy a talk by Dr. @NashTurley, postdoc at @PSU_Entomology, on "Bee monitoring in Pennsylvania by community scientists: Comparing a collections-based program with @iNaturalist." 🐝

Did you miss our March guest lecture on giant silkmoths? Or any of the other fantastic talks from the last few years? You're in luck-- our meetings are recorded and available for members to watch at anytime. Become a member today at americanentomologicalsociety.org/join/!

Today's the day! Join us at @AcadNatSci or by Zoom for our March meeting and for a guest lecture on "What giant silkmoths tell us about city trees" by Ken Frank. 7 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Light refreshments will be served! 📸: Mary Clock-Rust (@inaturalist obs. #34909035)

"“Later this week, I’ll be going crystal hunting.” She’ll leave Millie at home in her warm terrarium for that expedition. “If I could, I would keep her forever,” Madeline said." 💚🦗🩷

"Madeline said she took Millie with her to the family cabin for a few days during spring break to give the grasshopper a change of scenery. “I love the cabin because I catch sucker fishes with a black net by myself, and I also catch a bunch of crawdads and minnows,” she said."

"...Madeline said she’s already formed an attachment to her tiniest pet. She said Millie stays on her hand and rarely jumps off while her parents snap quick pictures. “I’ve had a lot of practice holding bugs, so she feels comfortable with me,” she said."

"The average life span for a grasshopper is about two months, but they can survive for a couple of years in terrariums. “I’m not ready to release her yet, because I want to study her some more and do research,” Madeline said."

"The pink hoppers have a condition called erythrism — a genetic mutation that causes overproduction of red pigment, he said, noting that because the insects aren’t well camouflaged, they’re more likely to be eaten."

A story about a future AES member (we hope)! "Nature enthusiast, 10, makes rare find: A pink grasshopper" (THREAD) washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024…