NHM Coleoptera

Found this spectacular, nationally scarce, snail-eating beetle larva Drilus flavescens on the east side of Brighton with Friends of Craven Wood today. Makes Glow Worms look a bit dull in comparison! 🪲 😯 @SussexWildlife @graemelyons @bugmanjones @NHM_Coleoptera

Featuring Nits from the #nhm #coleoptera collections!

New paper on the small African Carabidae genus Salcedia including specimens from the @NHM_London collection kindly donated by the African Natural History Research Trust

Coleopterology will not be beaten by a mere virus! #carepackage of essential #wfh beetle catalogue & IT equipment safely delivered to @thiswordistaken by the gallant @Coleopterist maintaining #SocialDistancing

Following UK Government advice to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum will be closed from 13.00 today, Tues 17 March. Read our full statement below or visit the website for more details. Thank you for your ongoing support, patience and understanding. #COVID2019

@flygirlNHM @Scott_Zona @Coleopterist Yes. Go to Down House!

@Scott_Zona We have a lot of their early stuff - @NHM_Coleoptera @Coleopterist - what are the earliest Darwin specimens? Did he collect as a boy?

Folks - a plea for help. Can you name someone famous or royal - historical or current - that collected insects when they were little that were donated to a museum? Cheers Xxxxx

New paper by one of our scientific associates Dr Hitoshi Takano on the #Dynastinae of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania #coleoptera #newspecies

#EJTaxonomy: Eight new species of Ptenidiini and Discheramocephalini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from Ecuador Darby Michael europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/… #Entomology #newspecies #coleoptera #entomologist #Ptiliidae #Coleopterist #beetle #beetles #scarabe #Scarabaeidae #ScarabBeetles

Our Dr Geiser working his way (systematically ;)) through the #Cantharidae

Our Coleoptera library of historical texts is used everyday by curators and researchers; from the great collections @nhm_library including such seminal works as the Biologia Centrali Americana which is also available @BioDivLibrary #WorldBookDay

National Insect Week #NIW2020 returns this year from 22 to 28 June. We are looking for events and activities all round the UK relating to #insects & #entomology, big or small, scientific or artistic (or both!). Find out how you can get involved: nationalinsectweek.co.uk/get-involved

Student of Coleopterology? Why not join the Coleopterists Society to access some great grant opportunities! #sciencefunding coleopsoc.org/society-info/p…

Our own Dr Michael Geiser @NHM_Coleoptera introducing the Chrysomelidae recording scheme. Please contribute your records here.

#Scarab expert and President of the @ColeopSoc Andrew Smith on a great visit to the Scarab (Melolonthinae) collections here at #NHM researchgate.net/profile/Andrew…

Talking #climatechange #PlanetaryEmergency #beetles today @NHM_London to highlight the new museum strategy. This drawer from the scientific collection contains beetles from the forests of Australia. 1/2

What does the physical transfer of the O'Brien collection actually mean? Many times I'm at my desk moving specimens one by one into new unit trays of different dimensions. Here I'm transferring the Australian Nemonychidae. #ASUCOB #OBrienCollTransfer #CollectionManagement

Bybee lab students @carpophilus here at #NHM busy imaging our ‘notable nits’! #nitidulidae #coleoptera #visitingresearcher bybeelab.byu.edu/People/ExtantG…

Neglected by #taxonomists for over a century, the #weevil genus Callistomorphus from #NewCaledonia is redescribed & enriched with a total of 8 #NewSpecies. [1/2] Study: doi.org/10.3897/zookey… #Coleoptera #Entomology #Taxonomy #Curculionidae #Weevils #Biodiversity

Paper utilising the curated British Carabidae collections at NHM. Can machine learning be successfully employed in species or genus level identification?

7 #NewSpecies of #weevils - where one is named after a @starwars favourite character - provide the 1st record of the hyperdiverse weevil genus <Trigonopterus> from the isolated Indonesian #Tanimbar Archipelago See: doi.org/10.3897/zookey…. #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entomology