🔥Telegram İfşa

Inaugural AGM of the Otago Entomology Society TONIGHT! 🐞🐜🦗🦋🕷️🐛🐝 5:30pm, Benham seminar room, Dept Zoology. All welcome! 🙂 Spread the word 👍

Congratulations to our new committee members! 😃🎉 President Emma Curtin Wildlife Research Vice-President Samuel Purdie @SammyZeSnail Secretary James Crofts-Bennett Treasurer Mateus Detoni Mateus Detoni

**NEXT MEETING** Thurs 6th June, 5:30pm in room M203 in the Zoology Dept. Dr Jenny Jandt (Jenny Jandt) will be leading an insect sorting session! 🙂 🐝🦋🐞🐜🕷🐛🦟🦗 Pick your favourite order or learn basic insect ID skills. There will be something for everyone!

Meeting tonight! 😊 Note the different location: room M203. Bring any handy insect guides you have and remember covered shoes are required for working in the lab. See you all soon! 🦗🐞🦟🐛🐜🐝🕷🦋

Insect sorters hard at work last night 😊 Thanks to Jenny Jenny Jandt for organising the meeting!

Meeting this week! 😊 Thurs 4th July at 5:30pm in the Benham seminar room 🐞🐛🦋 John Barkla from DOC will give a talk about iNaturalist and we will be introducing a summer fieldwork project idea for OtagoEntoSoc in coordination with Sinclair Wetlands. Hope to see you there! 😃

The Otago branch info is now up on the Entomological Society of NZ's website! We're official now ;) ento.org.nz/about-us/regio…

There is a free online course for learning about insects. 🐞🐛🦋 🐝🐜🦗 It's hosted by the University of Alberta and it's called "Bugs 101: Insect-Human Interactions". You can do it entirely in your own time and there are insect quizzes - yay! ualberta.ca/admissions-pro…

MEETING 1st AUG Exciting news - Otago Museum have kindly agreed to give us a behind-the-scenes tour of the Tropical Forest butterflies and tarantulas!! 😄🦋🕷 Meet in the Benham seminar room at 5:30pm. We will head over to the museum together. Hope to see you all there! 🦋

Meeting tomorrow! Can’t wait to see the butterflies and tarantulas at Otago Museum 😄🦋🕷

We had an excellent tour of the butterfly house Tūhura Otago Museum last night! Many thanks to Anthony Stumbo for showing us around😀🦋

Want to learn about forensic entomology? Come along to our next meeting! 3rd Oct 5:30pm in Betts room of Botany Dept. Dr Angela Clark will explain how she uses insect biology to investigate crime! 🦟🔬💉⚖️🚔

We're pleased to announce that abstract submission and registration is now open for the 69th Entomological Society of New Zealand Conference. This year's conference will be in beautiful Dunedin from 15-17th April, 2020. Full details can be found here: ento.org.nz/conferences/

Got an email from a colleague that referred to self-isolating as 'cocooning' which I really love because it implies we will come out on the other side of this more mature, more beautiful, and perhaps capable of flight. 🐛🦋

Extremely sad news today 😢

Rod Morris is giving a public talk tonight as part the @NZ_EntoSoc #NZento21 conference so please make sure you come to Tūhura Otago Museum for 5.30pm to hear about rare insects and be entertained with his legendary yarns and fantastic photographs. 📸Rod Morris

Come along tonight to hear a fantastic photographer talk about his work! It’s free! 😄 📸

A reminder: Current Research in Insect Science is a newish journal, led by our own Brent J Sinclair, currently open access & looking for those fascinating but yet to be finished insect mss #nzento21

Thanks for a great conference, everybody! 😄 So awesome to have #NZento21 in Dunedin! See you all next time 👋