The Entomological Society of British Columbia and UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest invite you to participate in an Insect BioBlitz event at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. Synergy Semiochemicals will also be attending the BioBlitz with insect traps and a display of pinned insects collected from Malcolm Knapp Research Forest!
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Friends of Uplands Park Society (FOUP) are partnering with CICADA, an entomologist club at the University of Victoria, to put on the 4th Insect Bioblitz in Uplands Park. The event will be held the weekend of June 20 to 22, 2025. Hoping you can attend and record your photo findings on iNaturalist.
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Join the Bumble Bee Project on April 8th from 12 – 1 pm to hear about project and other exciting results and how you can join Team Bee for one day of surveys, learn about bees and their threats, and help survey bumble bees during the summer of 2025. – Zoom Link
Get ready to immerse yourself in nature and contribute to community science! Bring your smartphone and join us on April 26 at 11:00 am – 3:00 pm in competing with cities across North America to collect the most observations of wildlife and plants. Explore the forest surrounding Beaver Lake while using the iNaturalist app. See full event details here.
The Native Bee Society of BC (NBSBC) is running a BC-Wide Bee Atlas Project, to map the diversity, distribution, and floral partners of BC’s more than 500 different native bee species. This program is modeled after the highly successful Oregon Bee Atlas, and relies on community scientist volunteers trained through the Master Melittologist Program.
NBSBC will be presenting a webinar on March 27th at 7 PM to introduce the BC Bee Atlas, including the need for a Bee Atlas, how training through the Master Melittologist Program works and the importance of understanding bee populations and their floral hosts in order to protect Canada’s bees and their unique ecosystems. Please RSVP here for the zoom link: https://www.bcnativebees.org/event-details/bc-bee-atlas-webinar
The 16th Annual Geoffrey G. E. Scudder Lecture will be on Feb 6th at 3-4 PM in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum Auditorium. Dr. Akito Kawahara will presenting a lecture on the “Evolution of anti-bat defenses in moths: Sonar jamming, acoustic deflection, and visual lures”.
The Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) is soliciting nominations for it’s Gold Medal and the C. Gordan Hewitt awards that they give out to entomologists for outstanding contributions to entomology. In addition, they are also seeking nominations for Society Fellows and Honorary Members.
Information about the awards and the criteria for each of them is on the ESC website https://esc-sec.ca/awards/.
ESBC member Daphné Chevalier (of the UBC PIEE lab) was featured in a recent Radio Canada piece about wildlife-friendly Christmas decorating. Check it out here.
