Today was the 11th annual BENHS Coleopterists’ Day meeting at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. All the usual fun.
All debate about apostrophes should be addressed to someone else.
Turn-out was in the region of 65, although one person admitted in a stage whisper that he was really a dipterist. This isn’t a write-up, just an annotated slide show.
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- Bumped into Jo Hatton (Horniman Museum) and Howard Mendel (formerly Natural History Museum) in the waiting room of Peckham Rye railway station. By Paddington we’d talked enough to need a coffee.
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- Head-count reckoned around 65.
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- Andy Skinner, RSPB, apparently they have beetles as well as birds on their reserves.
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- Dave Hubble showing Chrysolina coerulans.
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- Helen Roy bragging about the ladybird database.
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- Richard Comont on harlequin ladybird parasitoids.
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- The museum was closed for roof repair, but is reopening soon.
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- Dave Bilton injects a few holiday snaps of south European streams to illustrate his talk on water beetles.
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- Elater ferrugineus is a fabulous beast, but isn’t pheromone trapping cheating?
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- Reprints being given away, a bit like a jumble sale for coleopterists.
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- Roger Hawkins, looking at rubytails — not beetles.
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- Roger Booth on how to dismember rove beetles.
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- For the uninitiated, this is what a beetle willy looks like.
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- Darren Mann’s workshop was a load of excrement.
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- Nice day for it.
Richard Jones
Bugman Jones 
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