Big news is coming! We’re excited to announce a brand new webinar series along with several exciting projects on the horizon. The official announcement drops Monday, so make sure you’re subscribed to our listserv and following us on social media to stay in the loop!

Help. Can anyone near #Wellington catch me an adult sized whitetail spider for a photo assignment I’m working on? Haven’t been able to find one anywhere. #CrowdsourceaCritter

Out at Wellington on a plate at Hei restaurant. Looking forward to this evening. The beginning cocktail was nice. The glass of bubbles I ordered afterwards was a very small pore for Huia $17 has put a dampener on the evening. #VisaWOAP

After we finished digitising our Irish vascular plants as part of the DigiHerb Interreg NWE funded project we decided to add some algae. This is the last specimen we digitised (Porphyrostromium ciliare). Nice symmetry in the barcode number DBN0073073! Well done everyone!

🎉 Congrats to the top contributors of the 1LIB1REF Campaign in June 2025🎉 Muhdavdullah 1st Pharouqenr 2nd Aderiqueza 3rd for leading the charge in adding reliable citations to Wikipedia articles without references! As part of the global #1Lib1Ref campaign, your efforts by

No whitetailed spiders out there in #Wellington yet?

Our team have now completed the digitisation of Anacardiaceae stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40505 #herbarium #herbaria #digitisation #towards3million #Anacardiaceae

🤝 The #OpenRefine community is shaping the 2025 #Barcamp agenda! Have you registered and submitted your session idea yet? Vote, comment, and help create a great program. 👉 Proposals & discussion: bit.ly/3FTDAyA 👉 Register: forms.gle/nBifPoDgz5pVYu…

Portrait of Sir Thomas More #artbots #holbein

An important role at a critical time for our heritage in Aotearoa. amytea.co.nz/chief-executiv…

🩷On Wednesdays we wear pink, Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? This unusual pink hue is the result of a genetic condition called erythrism. This condition causes an overproduction of red pigment, leading to a pink or reddish appearance. #Digitisation #Grasshopper #Erythrism

This is my all time favourite. The fur, velvet and his stubble. It’s in the Frick collection and I’ve been lucky enough to see it twice.

🦀🐛Meet Crabill’s centipede, the Critter of the Week! Crabill’s centipede (Craterostigmus crabilli) is a homebody who prefers the damp, humid corners of native forests. Being a soil-dweller comes with its quirks; they hate drying out, so they stick to nice moist hideouts –

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪 With CLIR as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. How to help: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-suppo… #ILoveBHL

New Europe-wide study finds that efforts to provide pollinator habitat in urban areas - such as sowing wildflower mixes - really do work, boosting numbers of bees and butterflies: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

It’s World Mosquito Day! #worldmosquitoday #WorldMosquitoDay2025

Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners. Today’s featured specimen is a parasitoid wasp from the Scelionidae family, collected in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. This record was made possible through funding from the Walder Foundation.

BHL's #CallforSupport soft closes on Aug 31. Even if your ideas aren’t fully formed, we want to hear from you. 🌱Thinking about hosting? 🌱Considering funding support? 🌱Want to partner but unsure how? Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-suppo… #ILoveBHL

Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners. Today’s featured specimen is a true bug from the Tropiduchidae family, collected in Gauteng, South Africa. This record was made possible through the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

The latest blog from our digitisation team is on Reef Point Gardens, Maine stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40580 #herbarium #digitisation #herbaria #Ericaceae #Rhododendron #towards3million