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We’re migrating to Bluesky! 🦋✨ After 90 years of sharing our passion for insects, we’re spreading our wings on a new platform. Follow us for news on our events, books, journals & more! 🐞🦟🕷️ #amentsoc #Entomology #BugClub

Now sold out! We do hope to reprint and will announce here if we do.

New! A Checklist of the butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the Burren Region of Western Ireland by Brian Nelson and colleagues. Supported by @NPWSIreland. Available at: shop.amentsoc.org

Colin Plant, editor of the Entomologist's Record & Craig Macadam, author of Riverfly Handbook are among the winners of this year's Marsh Award for Entomology. Congratulations!🐛🪲🐜🦋

Hurry! You have less than a week to get your entries in to the @insectweek Week Art and Photography Competitions! 🪳🐜🦋🦟🪰🐛🐝🪲🐞🦗

#Insects have a wide-reaching influence in our world, from helping solve crimes, to being a food source & inspiring new technologies. Read @flygirlNHM's take on some of the fascinating ways that insects change our world 🔽 blog.publish.csiro.au/influential-in… #Metamorphosis @CSIROPublishing

We’re so excited to announce the #InsectGarden at Stratford Cross is ready for visitors large & small. One of the first guests was new #RESAmbassador @lloyd_oftheflies. Can you help find his friends at the #RESGarden? Download @aardman's #BugHunt app 🪰 royensoc.co.uk/news/interacti…

I'm helping the BBC with a new landmark series on terrestrial invertebrates. If there are any fascinating stories you know of or that you're working on, please get in touch. Pls RT.

Well it’s been a stellar day here @amentsoc annual #entomology fair. I’ve learned a lot, including woodlice make square poop, collecting roadkill insects can yield interesting data, and the blue death feigning beetle turns brown once it’s dead!

@VelcroCow2 We are glad you enjoyed the day! And do hope you sold more than four postcards, they are so beautiful!

Good to see the rather talented @rlewington2 at the @amentsoc Annual Trade Fair & exhibition yesterday You may recognise his work - stand alone art, natural history books & thanks to @RoyalMail Stamps!!!

Fran and Jim, our Senior Outreach and Learning Officer and Resident Entomologist, had a brilliant time at #AESfair @kemptonparkrace 🦋 Thank you to them, our helpers & everyone who visited for a chat about RES work & our publications. #insects #entomology #AmEntSoc @amentsoc

📢 Exciting news! We're launching the Riverfly Handbook by @bugsymac1 at our Annual Exhibition #AESfair this Sat 28 Sep @kemptonparkrace Join us at 3pm in the Premier Suite (1st Floor) for a recorded talk & online Q&A! Available for a special price from @asmithprint on the day.

Last chance to book your spot at #aesfair - the UK's oldest insect fair, running since 1939! Join us on Sat, Sep 28, 2024 @kemptonparkrace 11:00 - 16:30 to sell insect pets, equipment, art, and more. Info & booking: bit.ly/AESfair2024

How many moths on a log can you spot? Do you know their names? Three AES trustees are at Carfest Laverstoke Park this weekend enthusing families about insects and other invertebrates.

We've supported adding Middlewick Ranges as SSSI. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/defe… via @38degrees

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Countdown to our Annual Exhibition & Trade Fair! #aesfair🎉Join us @kemptonparkrace Sat 28 Sept 2024, 11:00-16:30. Entry: £6 adults, £3 ages 7-17. Bug Clubbers free!📷Details: bit.ly/AESfair2024 Traders, check your email or message exhibition@amentsoc.org. Please share!

@MeganShersby @kemptonparkrace thanks!

@amentsoc @kemptonparkrace Sat 28 or Sun 29? Dates are different between tweet and image

@MeganShersby @kemptonparkrace oops! Sat 28th, will correct