… for #ECN2025! Save the date! Nov 8-9, 2025 Portland, Oregon, USA.

A huge THANK YOU from the ECN board, to every single one of you that participated in our 2024 hybrid meeting. We hope to see you again next year…

#ECN2024 would not have been possible without the incredible support of our sponsors! A huge thank you goes out to all our corporate, institutional & personal sponsors.

And with that, our hybrid 2024 meeting has come to an end! We hope you have been enlightened and inspired by the talks and our wonderful community.   May the conversations and ideas continue. We hope to see you again, at #ECN2025!

Our final talk is a beautiful love story from Natalie Dale-Skey (Hymenoptera curator @NHM_London). She shares an exquisite slide preparation by Frederic Enock, of a mymarid in a spider’s web. It's a recreation of a slide that first sparked his love of Fairyflies.   #ECN2024

See No Weevil. Brilliant Specimen Spotlight talk from Ainsley Seago! The specimen is an acorn that includes the preserved HEAD of a predated Curculio still attached!! 😲 #ECN2024

Another lightning talk now, with @CharlaReplogle on centralizing the insect collection at @InsectPerc. The collection contains over 1.3 million arthropod specimens, representing 140,000+ different species. Over 10,000 of these specimens are now in the new database! #ECN2024

Victoria Bayless now, with a warm welcome to Dr. Stephen Baca, the new Director of the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum 🪲 More information on the museum here: lsuagcenter.com/portals/our_… Do get in touch if you want to visit (or return a loan)! #ECN2024

Coming Into Focus 📸 Knowledge sharing is one of the main aims of our network. This was a great lightning talk from @taytayhori on standardizing the 3D Imaging Process at the @SDNHM. #ECN2024

We’re into our LIGHTNING TALK session now, kicking off with @isabetabug & @Evantomology 🪲 They share their forays with AI from a collections perspective @NEON_sci. #ECN2024