Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Soma Chiyoda @somainsect1213.bsky.social 東大院・三崎臨海D3 / ヤスデと蛾 / 生き物の写真を撮ります / 学研LIVE昆虫の蛾担当 / PhD student at UTokyo / evo-devo, millipede, moth
🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of #Biology at UofG, Guelph, ON, Canada. Inspired by the #Biodiversity in ACG, Costa Rica. #Ecology, #Evolution, #Entomology
Opinions my own & oh so rarely overlap with my employer.
he/him
www.malexsmith.com
www.youtube.com/@Alex_Smith_Ants
Jim Starrett @jim-starrett.bsky.social Mygalomaniac
Smart & Final
some college
Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social Systematic Entomologist focusing on Heteroptera (True bugs) | Taxonomy and biodiversity | Curator of the Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN) | chinchólogo | profe #UNAL
https://tinyurl.com/3wskrrrp
Bogotá- Colombia 🇨🇴
Felix Javier @felixjavier.bsky.social PhD student at UConn EEB || NSF GRFP Fellow ||Copepods, Inverts, Genomics, Evolution and Science Communication || 🇵🇷🏳️🌈
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Ken-ichi Ueda @kueda.net East Bay curmudgeon, plant and insect dilettante, sucker for a space ship.
Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social Soil ecologist & macrophotographer | He/Him |
Author of 'The World Beneath Our Feet', publishing in Aug/Sep '26!
www.frankashwood.com
@norikonbuchan.bsky.social @norikonbuchan.bsky.social nature lover. animal lover. okay forager. accidental gallwasp-ologist. occasional paddler. childless cat lady who is also currently catless
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
🖤 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social Spiders, inverts, botany, birds, wine, beer, food, pottery, aircraft. Not necessarily in that order. See @andydouglas1967-IT.bsky.social for IT/Computer Science stuff. West Norfolk and South Northamptonshire.
Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social Asst. Curator of Entomology @nhm.org | evolution, genomes, museums | @cornelluniversity.bsky.social & New College of Florida alumna | she/her. | views are my own.
mbarkdull.github.io
Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social Studying African rainforest wasps, biodiversity, and other excuses not to get a real job. University of Turku, but living in Kållby 🇫🇮.
Posts in English / svenska / suomeksi
Also here:
https://mastodon.online/@tapani_hopkins
https://users.utu.fi/taesho
Matt Hamer @entohamer.bsky.social Ant taxonomy & community ecology.
PhD student at the University of Hong Kong | https://mhamer5.github.io/
Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social Exploring one universe at a time.
Interested in #Nature, #Photography, #NaturePhotography, #Science, #ScienceFiction, #Physics, #Engineering.
franz @franzanth.bsky.social i draw bugs and stuff. please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️🌈🇮🇩
contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com
Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening
Jill Oberski, PhD @jilloberski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology @ Hope College, a PUI SLAC. 🐜 🧬 🌎 | Entomology | Phylogenomics | Biogeo | Evolution | Diversifying STEM 🧠 ♿️ 🏳️🌈 [she/her]
Shahan Derkarabetian @sderkarabetian.bsky.social Opiliones. Systematics. Evolution. Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Sci-fi. Metal. Cyborg. deaf w CI. He/him. Opinions are mine.
Davide Dal Pos @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social Entomologist, Taxonomist, Morphologist - PostDoc at the University of Central Florida - Website: https://davidedalpos.com
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social I investigate how insects are so good at crashing into things. 🐝Insect Biomechanist, 🏒Pond Hockeyologist, 📸Photographer-ish, Dad, Mainer, Biology prof at Bates College
Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics
Journal of Hymenoptera Research @jhr.pensoft.net An open-access online journal published by @pensoft.net on behalf of the International Society of Hymenopterists.
Powered by @arphahub.com.
Website: jhr.pensoft.net
Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social Plant ecologist & PhD candidate | Academia Sinica/Tunghai University
Founder & Lead Educator | 'Taiwan Nature Education' bilingual ecology education
Co-host/Biologist | 'Botanical wonders'
https://tinyurl.com/242w9hee
Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan.
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth's eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.
🌲Keep up with all EBP updates: https://linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject
Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
Aron Bellersheim @coleomaniac.bsky.social 25 & totally obsessed with the tiniest insects :)
Photographing hidden biodiversity from leaf litter, deadwood & soil alive @ up to 10x
+other habitats & museum specimens
Preparator of beetles @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
inaturalist.org/people/coleomaniac
Rachel she/her @rachbehm.bsky.social PhD student at UCF studying Ichneumonoidea comparative genomics. Masters is in Ophioninae systematics from UCSB. Opinions are my own
Fossa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social Twelve spiders in a trenchcoat sneaking into SC public comment sessions. She, he, or they.
(My shitposting is mine alone and I am not my organization but my organization is pretty cool too: campquest.org)
@venomousbede.bsky.social @venomousbede.bsky.social 
Ugh @dmf13.bsky.social Vegan, lefty, dad, husband, lawyer
Heather Larkin @heatherlarkinphoto.bsky.social Photographer, Sigma lens ambassador, educator, general nerd. Personal quest to photograph every jumping spider species.
Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social PhD student @ ASU's Social Insect Research Group 🐜🐝 ants, bees, wasps, social behavior, phylogenetics, evolutionary game theory
❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping
Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social Ph.D student in Ecology&Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Mutualism between ants and auchenorrhyncha, ecophysiology, indirect effects. Science communicator!
RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social Entomologist and postdoc in the U of Rochester Trop Bio Lab, working on everything Strepsiptera!
rmillena@amnh.org • rjmillena.com
Dr Conrad P.D.T. Gillett 🇪🇺 @coleopteriste.bsky.social Entomologist. Evolutionist. Naturalist. Curator & Researcher in Entomology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Instagram: coleopteriste; coleopterartist
Thomas CK Hall @baeussupremacy.bsky.social Hymenopterist / Phylogenetics
What if, instead of the sun, there was just like, a big wasp? That'd be neat, I think.
🇨🇦 in 🇨🇿
MSc @ University of Toronto
PhD Student @ Univerzita Karlova
International Society of Hymenopterists @hymenopterists.bsky.social 🐝The official BlueSky account of the International Society of Hymenopterists
📢REGISTER FOR HYMATHON NOW📢
#Hymathon2025 #Hymenoptera #bees #wasps #ants #sawflies
🐝More contact information and surveys here: https://linktr.ee/ishymenopterists
Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social Newsletter for scientists navigating higher ed: ScienceForEveryone.science. Ecologist, entomologist, extremely amateur ornithologist, writer. Professor of Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills. (he/him)
@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
@cariidae.bsky.social @cariidae.bsky.social 
Corey Farwell @rwell.org https://rwell.org
Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social Retired botanist but doing #entomology on a wildfire impacted landscape in Oregon.
INaturalist Ambassador.
INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social Biology DPhil student at Oxford - particularly fond of snakes, spiders and centipedes (and their toxins) | Hobbyist macro photographer
Integrative Systematics @integsyst.bsky.social The biological systematics journal published by @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Formerly known as Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie). Edited by @dwhitmore79.bsky.social
American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org Official page of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Open daily, 10 am–5:30 pm.
https://linktr.ee/amnh
Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social Entomologist and award-winning photographer. Professional breeder and wrangler of insects and arachnids for educational, research and display purposes.
Andrew Johnston @andrewjohnston.bsky.social Insect systematist fascinated by beetles. Assistant professor and Insect Diagnostician. Desert explorer.
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social Professor and Head of the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Berlin. Taxonomy, robotics, AI, imaging and nanopore sequencing for biodiversity discovery at scale.
Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social they/them, En/Fr, QC-raised, BC-based
🖱️ Game designer @ Forgotten Empires
🧡 NDP EDA for Vancouver Centre
📚️ Indie SFF author
📸 Nature photographer
🐈️🐠🌱🔬🧑🍳🧶🎨
My & my work: https://linktr.ee/quillipede
Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in the true bugs, Heteroptera, but fascinated by pretty much all insects and nature. He/Him. https://www.flickr.com/photos/runnerwill/
Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, ConBio; Ants, Land Snails, & sundry invertebrates, often in Belau (Palau), Micronesia; PhD from SUNY-ESF; future uncertain
jessecm.org
Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social Bee enthusiast and taxonomist
Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
📸www.jencrossphoto.com
Adrian Smith @dradriansmith.bsky.social Scientist on-exhibit at NC Museum of Natural Sciences & NC State. Creator of Ant Lab on YouTube
Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social Dedicated to showing off the most ecologically diverse super radiation of animals 🪰 🦟 🧬🔬
https://linktr.ee/team_diptera?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=635d7c5f-a1d5-4d54-8010-6d736486a417
Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social biodiversity researcher - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography - views mine
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
Tim Frey @phytophthora.bsky.social Interests; Galls, plants, board games, food, classical music, NBA basketball
PhD plant pathology. Soil and hydroponic microbial communities and nematode interactions.
Wooster, Ohio.
@calconey on iNaturalist
gallformers admin
sumie-dh @sumie-dh.bsky.social Work, worms, weather, repeat. Planarian distribution and taxonomy. Keeper of microscope herd. IT rat at day, lab rat at night. brmlab.s0c4.net/bioosm
Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com UK based in 🏴 Entomologist 🇵🇷
Former ITAP.gov Invert chair
Former US Labor Union Leader
Film Ent: imdb.com/name/nm13959020/
Editorial admin at: https://www.sswento.org/
Board Member: circulodepr.org
Views are personal.
Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social Currently Misadventuring in Entomology.
Fascinated by soil dwelling invertebrates and the hymenoptera, mostly wasps. However, easily distracted by just about anything mycological, botanical or inverty. 
Adam Haberski @ahaberski.bsky.social Entomologist, rove beetle systematics 🪲
Collection Manager at Mississippi Entomological Museum
Inexplicable sideburns
Ng Ting Hui @siputairtawar.bsky.social Senior lecturer @ Uni Malaysia Sabah 🇲🇾
Biodiversity, ecology, freshwater molluscs & other inverts, invasive species, natural history collections, Southeast Asia
she/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-0039
Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social Spider taxonomist / conservationist / ecologist. Professor of Biology at the University of Indianapolis. Canadian. Lover of metal, cats, and hockey. 🌹
Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social PI @Rockefeller University. Investigator @HHMI. Instigator of clonal raider ant project #CRAP. 🐜 Evolution, Behavior & Neuroscience. Posts science and photography. 🧠 📸
https://www.rockefeller.edu/research/2280-kronauer-laboratory/
Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social Nature pics with Alt Text. Swarthmore, PA, USA. https://colinpurrington.com
Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social Flies/sawflies mostly; mostly from Yorkshire, UK.
Run the UK Heleomyzid Recording Scheme...
https://dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-scheme/home
...and Yorkshire County Recorder for Sawflies
https://www.ynu.org.uk/recording-sections/sections/insects/sawflies
American Arachnological Society (AAS) @arachnology.bsky.social The official account of the American Arachnological Society (AAS). AAS furthers the study and appreciation of arachnids, and publishes the Journal of Arachnology. 🕸️🕷️🦂 & other wonderful #arachnids!
https://linktr.ee/american_arachnology
@bohartmuseum.bsky.social @bohartmuseum.bsky.social 
Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him
Raleigh, NC, USA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/
UCR Entomology @ucrentomology.bsky.social https://entomology.ucr.edu/
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it)
IG: @apsciencebylyn
Discord: evelyndroid
Tumblr: apsciencebylyn
Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social I hope you like pictures of bugs.
Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere
Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social Freelance naturalist, especially into leafminers, sawfly larvae, and other underappreciated herbivorous insects | http://bugtracks.wordpress.com
California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social Natural history museum, research institute, aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, & so much more — all under one living roof.
Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social Official Entomemeology. Education & compassion through humor.
I didn’t choose the bug life, the bug life chose me.
🔽 Join our Insect Conservation Fundraiser! 🔽
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/p2pmaindiy2026/account/2306537/
Ecology Supplies @ecologysupplies.bsky.social Hello! If you're new here, we are Ecology Supplies! ✨🐜🐝🦋✨
Our mission is to provide the scientific community with innovative equipment for field collection and specimen preservation
ecologysupplies.com
https://ecologysupplies.com/the-pin-down/
ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of animals of any geological age from any part of the world.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA Platform.
Website: zookeys.pensoft.net
Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social Entomologist specializing in parasitoid wasps and dark taxa. Leiden, Netherlands.
Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social Nature enthusiast, hobby photographer. All photos I post are mine! I am @hydaticus on iNaturalist
William Brockelsby @williambrockelsby.bsky.social Librarian, entomologist, New Zealand 
Kendrick Fowler @kendrickorion.bsky.social Nature, canoe, and camera enthusiast studying parasitoid wasps in the Hudson Valley 🔬 Mostly (re)skeeting on insects, science, and current events (not necessarily in that order) 🐝 Still trying to stay in the control group 😷 He/him 🧍♂️ Views my own
Gavin Broad @gavinbroad.bsky.social Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social Entomologist, naturalist, all-around bug nerd. https://www.hawaiianinsects.com
Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede.bsky.social Soil ecology, earthworms, millipedes, teaching, community science. Asso Prof Georgia College. He/him. Opinions mine. Society's a platypus.
Lovis Alden @lovisalden.bsky.social Educator and naturalist in NYC
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/lovisalden
https://substack.com/@lovisalden?r=6czbmg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social A naturalist on the prowl. (New here, same handle on Twitter/X)
Louis Nastasi @toomanywasps.bsky.social Professor of Entomology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gall wasp systematics and more. More info at
https://NastasiWaspLab.org/
Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social Naturalist
Nature Photographer
He/him
@myriada-dhernandez.bsky.social @myriada-dhernandez.bsky.social 
Elliott Gordon @ripiphorus.bsky.social Top Penstemon identifier on iNat (egordon88), nature photographer on IG (desert_pollinators), and amateur coleopterist specializing on Ripiphoridae
Brandon Claridge @ichsofna.bsky.social Ph.D. entomologist/ ichneumonid taxonomist/ owner of Claridge Traps. See ichsofna.org for AI/web tools to help with ichneumonid identifications in North America. Need Malaise traps or light sheets for insect collecting? Visit claridgetraps.com
Nathaniel Green @nmdg.bsky.social Recent PhD from @wsu studying bee and wasp systematics. Opinions my own. He/Him. 'Pollen Wasps are the delight of the Taxonomist' - Bequaert, 1929
iNat: @NMDG
Milo van Loon @bugshevik.bsky.social Aspiring entomologist studying Hymenoptera | Volunteer at Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Autistic and ADHD | ☭ | He/Him | 🇳🇱🇮🇩
Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social Coleopterist, documenting patterns of beetle diversity (especially histerids & staphylinoids); University prof sharing systematics with the next generation; aspiring popular science writer; would rather be in the field.
Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social He/him
PhD student at The Ohio State University studying phylogenomics in arthropod systems