Saturday 7 February 2015 and to Oxford to attend 12th Annual Coleopterists’ Day at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. There was a time when a gathering of beetle enthusiasts would have numbered a handful — scroll down to the end of my 2013 Coleopterists’ Day blog and count them on one-and-a-half hands.
But with social media and an all-inclusive invitation, Coleopterists seem to be crawling out of the woodwork. I estimated 60 people in the lecture theatre audience. Not a bad turn out.
Anyway, here are some pictures.
-
- Maggot identification — a must.
-
- An stereotype entomologist in comedy bow-tie.
-
- The forbidden section at Hogwarts.
-
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Richard Jones
Bugman Jones 
Nice to meet you the other day! I thought there would be fewer Coleopterists about!