Beulah Garner
Entomologist. Curator of Polyneoptera at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy in the Vogler lab https://www.site100.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
- Saturday 21st February is the annual Coleopterists Day! We hope to see many of our beetle supporters at the World Museum Liverpool on the day 🪲 🙌🏻
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThe programme for 2026 Coleopterists Day is here...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerBeetles have survived ice ages and mass extinctions — but can they survive today’s global change? 🪲 Join our FREE entoLIVE webinar on 17 Feb with Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social on mapping the beetle tree of life and what it tells us about biodiversity’s future. 🧪 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1815106274...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerBBC News - Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence groups warn - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerOur new 416pp #FliesofBritainandIreland covering over 1300 species & with over 1500 photos is now being printed - due mid Feb 2026. You can still pre-order until 31 Jan bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Beulah Garner!Please Read! Coleopterists Day is happening on Saturday 21st February, not the 22nd as previously circulated. Accept our apologies for this confusion, we hope to see you there for discussions, presentations and more...🪲🪲🪲
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- SAVE THE DATE! Saturday 21st February 2026 is Coleopterists Day at Liverpool Museum. A fun and informative programme of talks with access to the entomology collections in the afternoon. We look forward to seeing you there. Details on how to attend following soon 🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social
- Merry Christmas! 🎄 And a festive beetle bauble🪲 I didn’t collect this beetle in Costa Rica this year, it collected me, attempting to nest in my hair! A very special experience. This is scarab chafer in the aptly named genus Euphoria, as it’s true I was euphoric or have met it.
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerBeetles are astonishingly diverse: 400,000 species and counting. A major new project aims to build the most comprehensive beetle phylogeny ever, mapping 100,000 species to reveal their evolutionary history. Learn more w/ Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social on 17 Feb. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1815106274...
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- Reposted by Beulah GarnerDid you know 1 in 4 animal species is a beetle? 🪲 With 400k+ species, beetles are among Earth’s most diverse lineages. Learn about the huge project mapping their tree of life in a FREE talk with Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social in Feb 2026. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1815106274... @nhm-london.bsky.social
- Yes, yes you can find beetles in the winter in the UK! Communing with the Black Snail beetle up a very wet and windy Fell in the Lakes. Phosphuga atrata on Great Mell Fell. 🪲
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerOver 400,000 beetle species exist, but how are they related? 🐞 Join Dr @beetlequeen.bsky.social ( @nhm-london.bsky.social ) on 15 Feb 2026 for a FREE webinar exploring efforts to map the global Beetle Tree of Life & uncover biodiversity patterns. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-th...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerDon’t miss the #OrthopteraSIG 2025 on 5 Nov at @nhm-london.bsky.social 🦗 Enjoy talks, posters & live specimen displays, and a buffet dinner option at our friendly informal forum to share research across behaviour, acoustics, taxonomy, ecology & more. Submit your abstract and register now 🔽 🔗
- When your Thai bestie @pun158 over on X, combines two of your favourite things: entomology themed stationary and beetle science! New species of stag beetle to Thailand: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Come along to the @amentsoc.bsky.social fair on Saturday for all your insect needs! 🪲 🐝 🦋 🦗 🐝 🪰 🐞
- 🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerImportant www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerYesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨 This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1/5
- #Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
- Reposted by Beulah Garner🌟 Huge thanks to all the incredible plenary speakers of #Ento25! May Berenbaum, Vojtěch Novotný, Christiane Weirauch & Nicole van Dam - Your inspiring talks have been a true highlight of the conference 🐝🦋🐞 🎥 Catch up on these talks on our YouTube channel early next week @entsocamerica.bsky.social
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerI'm really pleased that @royentsoc.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on ethics in insect research later today at #Ento25. It's an area where the UK entomology community can and should lead the way. Can't make it? You can still access my slides here: drive.google.com/file/d/1rBzi...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThank you to everyone that attended the #WomenInEntomology morning at #Ento25, what a fantastic turnout! Special thanks to @ukladybirds.bsky.social, @hayleyento.bsky.social, Anna Platoni and Gia Aradottir 🐞🪴🪰🦗 Read more about women in entomology 🔽 buff.ly/9OBCyNM WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience
- Tropical rainforests in the SW Pacifics. Dr Novotný took us on an epic adventure featuring Terry Erwin! On the arms race between plants and insects in the tropics, and the army of people it takes at a local scale to provide the raw data for these interactional insights over decades. #Ento25
- "Insects and plants in tropical rainforests: the story of a turbulent relationship" 🌿 Starting now - Welcome to our first Plenary of #Ento25, Dr Vojtěch Novotný. Read more about the Ento25 plenaries 🔽 buff.ly/pccuXfc Lecture sponsored by @harperadamsuni.bsky.social. #Entomology #InsectScience
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerMeet Harpalus politus, a predominantly granivorous #carabid beetle threatened with extinction in #Germany (RL1) that is found exclusively on dry grasslands on limestone soils 🪲. Suitable habitat management and traditional grazing regimes are needed to help the species survive 🌿🐑
- New subspecies for the Madeira islands. Very nice study on Carabidae diversity mapress.com/zt/article/v...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerIn the last few weeks, some parts of the UK have been blessed by a veritable swarm of ladybirds in gardens and on beaches - they even disrupted the cricket (game)! 🦗 But do you know the collective noun for a group of ladybirds? 🐞
- Natural history museum San Jose, Costa Rica delivered ALL the insects. So great to see so much of Costa Rica’s diversity on display 🪲 🦋 #CostaRicaBiodiversity
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerTree crickets build megaphones, called "baffles", by chewing holes in leaves to attract mates. For my PhD, I am studying the evolution of baffling. Lil bit of phylogenetics, lil bit of citizen science. Follow the link to my new project on @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/projects/baf...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerA new #ShortComm in #RESInsectConsDiv reports that urbanization imposes declines in flying insect #biomass through the loss of large-bodied species doi.org/10.1111/icad.12859 #UrbanInsects #Biodiversity @katriendewolf.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
- Reposted by Beulah Garner🌸 Wildflower walks in London! 🌸 Step outside and enjoy a peaceful stroll surrounded by beautiful blooms. Plan your visit via the link below ow.ly/bT8u50WnvmF
- I was only trying to make friends but don’t mess with the Bess! Bess beetles (Passalidae) are of the few beetles that care for their young and live communally. This encounter in the mid-elevation tropical forest of Costa Rica.
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerGot a chance to photograph one of North America's most beautiful dung beetles, Copris arizonensis, at the Bugshot course in Portal last month. The various textures and shapes on this animal are amazing.
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- Reposted by Beulah GarnerNature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
- Some wet weather collecting at Pocosol Camp, Costa Rica. Seamlessly combining Katydid and beetle hunting 🌳 🪲 🦗
- Carcinophora americana being a good mama. Brood care in Dermaptera is cool cool cool! 🖤 what a privilege to view this behaviour close up in Costa Rica 🌳
- Night night from the night light
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerSwarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa following ideal breeding conditions in late 2024 and early 2025, raising fears of major locust infestations moving south into the Sahel later this year.
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerUntil we value the natural world above all else and put it at the heart of all we do there will be only one result - our demise. Why don't governments get it? It's capitalism stupid... www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06...
- Good to see a diversity of insects at the light trap here in Costa Rica. Still, it’s obvious the decline in abundance. #insectdiversity
- Having an intense, rewarding and a little bit damp time learning everything about the singing crickets from the best Orthopterogists in the world! 🌎 🦗
- Hello from me and some beetle friends here in the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica.
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerNew research in #RESEcolEnt Resilience that goes beyond prophylaxis: Benefits of faecal accumulation within #termite nests doi.org/10.1111/een.13464 #Termitidae #Cornitermes #Metarhizium @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
- Obligatory curator photo at good old Terminal 3! 🪰 ✈️ 🦗
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerHappy 20th anniversary UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage! Proud to be an alumna and to share my story of how this programme shaped my career.
- By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerNew #OpenAccess work now available in #RESSystematicEnt! Whole genome shotgun #phylogenomics resolve the #DivingBeetle tree of life doi.org/10.1111/syen.12685 #Dytiscidae #AquaticInsects @gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerChecking some plans that were stood in trays of water, because of the weather, and found this fab Carabus granulatus. Nice unexpected find.
- @amentsoc.bsky.social President address by Professor Ed Turner on the state of #insects globally, locally and the measures we can take to study and conserve them 🌳 🪲 @camzoology.bsky.social
- Nail art beautifully provided by the fourteen-spot ladybird 💛
- The day begins at #Insectopia on this sunny day. Hoping to meet lots of #insects 🐞 ☀️ 👋 from the team @amentsoc.bsky.social
- This Sat 21 June 10am - 5pm is our 90th 😱 Anniversary AGM & members day held at the University of Cambridge as part of Zoology Live Insectopia! We have talks, minibeast hunts 🪲🐜🪰🐌 & behind the scenes tours. All welcome, details here: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/zoolo...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThis Sat 21 June 10am - 5pm is our 90th 😱 Anniversary AGM & members day held at the University of Cambridge as part of Zoology Live Insectopia! We have talks, minibeast hunts 🪲🐜🪰🐌 & behind the scenes tours. All welcome, details here: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/zoolo...
- Reposted by Beulah Garner👇Fun insect facts with Museum Entomologist Jessica Ware!👇
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerJust over a week left to register to join us (@systassn.bsky.social and @linneansociety.bsky.social) for an in-person evening debate on the effects of misinformation on conservation efforts! When: Thurs, June 12 at 18:00 BST Where: Burlington House, London How: tinyurl.com/e8e4p5zt
- Had a lovely day learning about palaeoecology of #WickenFen and past Mesolithic faunas, some still present today! Beetle elytra in abundance ☀️ 🪲
- Peatlands store twice the amount of carbon than all the world's forests. They help control flooding, reduce wildfire risk, drought, and provide important habitat for rare wildlife. Wicken Fen is one of the last refuges for a host of species dependent on peatland soils. #WorldPeatlandsDay
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerTHE COLEOPTERISTS EVOLUTIONARY TOOLKIT: HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR BEETLE FROM A PRIMORDIAL CHEMISTRY
- Less burning more conserving please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- I think about him everyday. And the Lebiinae 💙
- It's been 5 years since the unexpected sad demise of our founding Editor-in-Chief: Terry Erwin. A great man, beloved friend & brilliant entomologist admired for his expertise, as well as passion for the natural world. @smithsonianmag.bsky.social zookeys.pensoft.net/news/851
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerI have a new radio show! Going live in 45 minutes (5pm GMT) on Source FM 96.1 Listen Here for bugs folklore and music! www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerMe and @richardjbutler.bsky.social have a new review paper today in which we make the case for the importance of systematics, taxonomy and fieldwork in palaeo. You should read it: you'll like it royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThis beautiful Ground beetle is our six millionth digitised specimen! 😮 These specimens and their data are important to not only understand how population sizes have changed over time, but also to capture details which we may not have discovered, like this particular beetle eating adult moths! 🪲
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerFinal talk by Jonathan Saha @durham-university No slides but massive impact. Go read this paper
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerRohan Deb Roy - talking termites & entomo-politics The world of insects & politics may be thought to be mutually exclusive in terms of understanding colonisation but they are completely interwoven Plants give timber & paper A the materials of Empire. Termites upset that by eating them!
- Reposted by Beulah Garner@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerAn excellent day of talks and chatter at OUMNH today for the @britentsoc.bsky.social members day! Wonderful representation for women in #entomology from @megabunus.bsky.social @beetlequeen.bsky.social & BENHS President Zoë Simmons 💁🏻♀️🪲🪰🕷️ #WomensHistoryMonth
- Looking forward to talking about beetles at the #BENHS members’ day 🪲 🦖 on Saturday ☀️
- Only three weeks to go until our Annual Members' Day at Oxford University Museum of Natural History! Access the full programme here: www.benhs.org.uk/event/member...
- Celebrated #InternationalWomensDay with my @NHM_London tribe thanks to The IDEA Group - Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. Action. Special thanks to my fellow entomologist @DrButterflyH for pioneering the cause. Divided we stand, united we rise 🙌🏻
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThe 2025 LinneSys call is open! Need funding for a systematics-based project? Details on eligibity and how to apply here: systass.org/linnesys/ You need an active @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social membership to apply! Applications close Monday, 10th March at 23:59 GMT+0
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerWe’ve landed on Bluesky - just in time for our 90th anniversary! 🎉🦋 The Amateur Entomologists’ Society has shared its passion for insects since 1935, from butterflies to beetles - and even fabulous flies! 🦟 Follow us for news on our events, books, journals & more. 🐞🦗 #amentsoc #Entomology #BugClub
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerAlways wonderful to be amongst entomologists - Coleopterist’s Day provides opportunities for sharing stories about beetles (& some other insects get a mention too!) - thanks to @beetlequeen.bsky.social & #OxfordUniversityNaturalHistoryMuseum for making us so welcome @ukceh.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
- Coleopterist’s day begins with an excellent presentation by @ukladybirds.bsky.social on 61 years of the Biological Records Centre. Using biological records for abundance trends. And no talk could go by without mention of ladybirds 🐞 ☀️ @colsocbi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerWhat a great meeting, lots of beetle people and beetle chat 👍 Thanks @colsocbi.bsky.social and @morethanadodo.bsky.social and do check the other posts from @beetlequeen.bsky.social for details of the other talks
- Coleopterist’s Day @colsocbi.bsky.social fourth inspirational speaker is @kitenet.bsky.social on why record #beetles Good to be reminded for ‘physical and spiritual wellbeing’ Here’s a guide on how to use iRecord tinyurl.com/2c65b7sy
- Coleopterist’s Day sixth great speaker is Steve Docker of @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social AIDGAP natural history pubs on new ideas for identifying 🪲. New keys, utilising old images from Joy’s A Practical Handbook of British Beetles. ‘Distinctive Terrestrial Beetles’ coming soon! 🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social
- Coleopterist’s day fifth great speaker is Charles Barker @colsocbi.bsky.social social media whizz, on how does the declining dung beetle population affect mung bean growth! #scarabaeinae 💩 🪲
- Coleopterist’s Day @colsocbi.bsky.social fourth inspirational speaker is @kitenet.bsky.social on why record #beetles Good to be reminded for ‘physical and spiritual wellbeing’ Here’s a guide on how to use iRecord tinyurl.com/2c65b7sy
- Coleopterist’s Day third speaker is Kevin Rowley on using iRecord for water beetle records @nfbr.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social Interesting insights into how to encourage recorders coleoptera.org.uk/aquatic/home
- Coleopterists’s day second speaker is Louise Garcia on recording Ireland’s beetles. And the perplexing case of Melolontha melolontha 🪲 records.biodiversityireland.ie/stats/record... @colsocbi.bsky.social
- Coleopterist’s day begins with an excellent presentation by @ukladybirds.bsky.social on 61 years of the Biological Records Centre. Using biological records for abundance trends. And no talk could go by without mention of ladybirds 🐞 ☀️ @colsocbi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerThe Paleontological Research Institute is at serious risk. And its exceptional fossil collection “can never be replaced.” My story for @science.org. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerDark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Malaise traps in Singapore now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerIf you're an entomologist who lost your position in this nonsense, please message me. If you're an organization seeking a taxonomist or a broadly trained entomologist, reach out. I'm also looking for professors seeking PhD students, globally. #entomology 🧪
- Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪
- @colsocbi.bsky.social Only one day to go before Coleopterist’s Day 🪲 🔊
- Reposted by Beulah GarnerToday we meet Leopoldo Castro! 🐝 He is a former secondary school teacher, expert in several Hymenoptera taxa (e.g. Bombinae, Eumeninae), focused on faunistic, geographical and taxonomic studies 👨🏻🏫🏫 His main task for #INCSTEP is the revision of #Bombus specimens! 🔬
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